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SA’s ’My Octopus Teacher’ wins best documentary film Oscar By Supplied Share The proudly South African Oscar won by ’My Octopus Teacher’ for Best Documentary Film on Monday morning has laid the foundation for an unprecedented increase in ocean awareness. The film, which has won more than 20 international awards, including Best Documentary at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) and Producers Guild of America Awards, becomes the first nature documentary to win an Acad...

Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins win top acting trophies

Oscars 2021 – how it happened An honorary award for the Motion Picture and Television Fund, which has supported struggling actors and crew particularly during the pandemic, was awarded at the Oscars’ traditional Hollywood theater base. Black entertainment mogul Tyler Perry was also honored.  Tents sheltering everything from Covid testing booths to catering stations. Best Documentary Oscar goes to My Octopus Teacher The unorthodox Oscars ceremony was moved from a Hollywood theater to a glam...

Oscar moments: History, glamour … and what a weird ending Wait. What? If that’s what you yelled at the TV during the final moments of Sunday’s Oscars, you weren’t alone. In what may have been the most abrupt ending since that closing shot of “The Sopranos,” TV audiences expecting an emotional finale crowning the late Chadwick Boseman as best actor were left to ponder a huge upset, an ab...

Subscribe Could what transpired in Sunday night’s Academy Awards be more lasting? In an unfamiliar pandemic staging of Hollywood’s most familiar awards ceremony, Oscar voters honored a diverse group of actors and filmmakers. And the evening’s best picture winner, “Nomadland,” fittingly tells the story of the disenfranchised trying to keep a toehold in society. Just a year after just one non-white performer was nominated for an acting trophy, two of the four acting winners were...

South Africa’s first ever Netflix original documentary, My Octopus Teacher, has won an Oscar.



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 Bru...

Oscars 2021: Netflixs My Octopus Teacher Wins Best Documentary Feature Oscars 2021: Netflixs My Octopus Teacher Wins Best Documentary Feature The film documents a year spent by filmmaker Craig Foster forging a relationship with a wild common octopus in a South African kelp forest Oscars 2021: A still from My Octopus Teacher. (courtesy oscars.org) Highlights The film also received a BAFTA earlier this year The film is streaming on Netflix Washington: The 2020 Netflix original film My...

SA documentary My Octopus Teacher wins at the Oscars! Updated Breakfast with Martin Bester TWITTER/@TheAcademy The 93 rd annual Academy Awards was a bit different to other years. Due to the coronavirus and travel restrictions in America, the glitzy evening was spread out across several locations.  The best documentary feature goes to… My Octopus Teacher! The Netflix original documentary, My Octopus Teacher, chronicles the year-long relationship between man and octopus. The film has alre...

Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins win top acting trophies