Angela Bassett, earing and fashion detail, attends the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Chris Pizzello-Pool/Getty Images)
This year, with shrinking audiences and pandemic restrictions, there was a bitter irony in the fact women won more Oscars, across new and highly visible categories, than ever before.
The intimate Oscars ceremony (with only 170 VIP guests at LA’s Union Station) meant a reduced red carpet, where attendees made up for the lack of numbers by bringing colour, glamour and scale in what they wore.
Here, 5 experts comment on the most remarkable moments from the 2021 Oscars ceremony.
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This year, with shrinking audiences and pandemic restrictions, there was a bitter irony in the fact women won more Oscars, across new and highly visible categories, than ever before.
The 93rd Oscars took place on 26 April 2021.
Under Covid-19 regulation constraints, the event sacrificed music and comedy choosing instead to feature more oratory.
Here five experts weigh in on the Oscar wins, wearable art and focus on women.
Chloé Zhao has made history at the 93rd Academy Awards as the first Asian-American woman and first woman of colour to win Best Director. She won for Nomadland, which Zhao also edited, produced, and adapted as a screenplay (from the book by Jessica Bruder).
Only one other woman has ever won Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2008. Zhao and fellow nominee Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) were just the sixth and seventh women to receive nominations.