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Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins win top acting trophies

Two Distant Strangers and If Anything Happens I Love You collect Academy Awards. Two Netflix shorts that address gun violence were honored Sunday at the Oscars. If Anything Happens I Love You -- which follows two parents grieving the loss of their child in a school shooting -- won the Oscar for best animated short, while Two Distant Strangers collected the Academy Award for a live-action short. Writer/director Travon Free and director Martin Desmond Roe accepted the award for Two Distant Str...

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...

Director Pete Docter and producer Dana Murray accepted the Best Animated Feature award, with Docter thanking “music teachers and art teachers everywhere” for doing the real-life work of Soul protagonist Joe (Jamie Foxx). “This film started as a love letter to jazz, but we had no idea how much jazz would teach us about life,” Docter said. “…I wish we could follow the wish of jazz musicians: that, wherever we are, whatever we have, we could turn it into something beautiful.” Nomina...

Contenders like Nomadland, The Father, Minari, Promising Young Woman are competing for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Picture. Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and the major studios are all in the mix. Who took home the most Oscars? Here’s the full list.

Print “Two Distant Strangers,” about a young Black man caught in a deadly time loop with a white cop, won the Oscar for best live action short film Sunday, bringing more attention to the hot-button issue of police killings of unarmed Black men, which has dominated national headlines this week. The victory, by co-directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, came just days after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted for murder and manslaughter in the killing last year of Geo...

Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins win top acting trophies

Frances McDormand, Anthony Hopkins win top acting trophies Written By: / Reuters | × Producers Frances McDormand, left, and Chloe Zhao, winners of the award for best picture for "Nomadland," pose in the press room at the Oscars in Los Angeles Sunday, April 25, 2021. McDormand also won Best Actress for the film and Zhao won Best Director, making her the first Asian woman and only the second woman to take home the trophy. Chris Pizzello / Pool via REUTERS LOS ANGELES, April 25 (Reuters) - "No...

The 93rd Academy Awards aired Sunday night on ABC, capping off a year in film that produced an impeccable class of nominees despite their relatively low penetration into the cultural consciousness. No film unambiguously swept the Awards, though the biggest winner of the night was “Nomadland,” taking home trophies for best picture, best director and best actress.  The ceremony, produced by Steven Soderbergh, was a smaller, more intimate celebration than usual, focusing on the nominees’ pe...

Advertisement 20 / 41 List slides The Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom team wins Best Makeup and Hairstyling (and Best Costume Design) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’s Mia Neal, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, and Jamika Wilson made history, being the first team with Black female members to win Best Makeup and Hairstyling. When speaking of breaking that “glass ceiling,” they expressed hope that they’d soon be joined by winners of all genders and races and “it wont be groundbreaking, it will just be normal...