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Oscars 2021: Full list of winners and how British talent did on the night Nomadland was named Best Picture, Sir Anthony Hopkins was named best actor and Daniel Kaluuya was named best supporting actor Yuh-Jung Youn, winner of Best Actress in a Supporting Role for "Minari," Daniel Kaluuya, winner of Best Actor in a Supporting Role for "Judas and the Black Messiah," and Frances McDormand, winner of Best Actress in a Leading Role for "Nomadland" (Image: Getty Images) FIND OUT WHATS ON NEAR YOU WITH...

Font Size This years Academy Awards show was an unwatchable train wreck of BLM virtue-signaling and bad lighting. A freshman film student could have produced a better show than this mess. The shout-outs to BLM reached peak cringe during the acceptance speech of Travon Free. Free shared an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film with co-director Martin Desmond Roe, for the Netflix film Two Distant Strangers. Two Distant Strangers is about a young black man murdered by police...

The 93rd Academy Awards was uncoventional in a lot of ways, but the Best Picture and Best Director awards went exactly as expected to Nomadland. The Chloe Zhao-directed film led the way for the night with three wins, taking home the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress in Frances McDormand. This marks McDormand’s fourth Oscar win, and follows up on her win for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri just three years ago in 2018. The win also makes Chloe Zhao only th...

As expected, Nomadland was the big winner at the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday.

Apr 26, 2021 The drama was named Best Picture, while star Frances McDormand won Best Actress and Chloé Zhao went home with Best Director. The drama was named Best Picture, while star Frances McDormand won Best Actress in a Leading Role and Chloé Zhao went home with Best Director. Zhao is the first woman of color to win the award, and only the second woman in the Academys 92-year history, after Kathryn Bigelow for 2008s The Hurt Locker. Anthony Hopkins, who didnt appear at the ceremony, was na...

Apr 26, 2021 The drama was named Best Picture, while star Frances McDormand won Best Actress and Chloé Zhao went home with Best Director. The drama was named Best Picture, while star Frances McDormand won Best Actress in a Leading Role and Chloé Zhao went home with Best Director. Zhao is the first woman of color to win the award, and only the second woman in the Academys 92-year history, after Kathryn Bigelow for 2008s The Hurt Locker. Anthony Hopkins, who didnt appear at the ceremony, was na...

Oscars 2021: Nomadland wins best picture; Irrfan Khan honoured at 93rd Academy Awards Nomadland and Chloe Zhao win big; actors Irrfan Khan, Chadwick Boseman, and costume designer Bhanu Athaiya honoured at the Oscars. 0 claps The 93rd Academy Awards was held on Monday morning, April 26. While the event was held at Los Angeles Union Station, the special segments were broadcasted from the Dolby Theatre. Chloe Zhao and her film Nomadland continued making noise at the awards and won big at the ...

Apr 26, 2021 The drama was named Best Picture, while star Frances McDormand won Best Actress and Chloé Zhao went home with Best Director. The drama was named Best Picture, while star Frances McDormand won Best Actress in a Leading Role and Chloé Zhao went home with Best Director. Zhao is the first woman of color to win the award, and only the second woman in the Academys 92-year history, after Kathryn Bigelow for 2008s The Hurt Locker. Anthony Hopkins, who didnt appear at the ceremony, was na...

Apr 26, 2021 The drama was named Best Picture, while star Frances McDormand won Best Actress and Chloé Zhao went home with Best Director. The drama was named Best Picture, while star Frances McDormand won Best Actress in a Leading Role and Chloé Zhao went home with Best Director. Zhao is the first woman of color to win the award, and only the second woman in the Academys 92-year history, after Kathryn Bigelow for 2008s The Hurt Locker. Anthony Hopkins, who didnt appear at the ceremony, was na...

Two Distant Strangers collected the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film. Executive produced by Diddy with Joey Bada$$ as the lead actor, the Travon Free-directed film follows a Black cartoonist who tries to get home to his dog the morning after a first date, but ends up getting stuck in a Groundhog Day-like time loop that finds him confronted by a white NYPD officer. The idea was sparked by police brutality across the United States in 2020. Diddy and Joey Bada$$ weren’t at the ceremony, bu...