The Associated Press Created: April 25, 2021 08:08 PM
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Yuh-Jung Youn has become the first Korean actor to win an Academy Award.
She claimed the Oscar for best supporting actress Sunday night for her performance in “Minari” as a grandmother who moves from South Korea to live with her daughter’s farming family in Arkansas.
It was the first Oscar nomination in a career that spans five decades for the 73-year-old Youn, long a star in South Korea. Youn Yuh-jung arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. | Chris Pizzello/Associated Press
Oscars Latest: Anthony Hopkins wins best actor in a surprise
By The Associated PressApril 26, 2021 GMT
8:20 p.m.
Anthony Hopkins has won his first Oscar since he was victorious for playing Hannibal Lecter.
Despite his pedigree, Hopkins was a surprise as the winner of the Academy Award for best actor for his work on “The Father.”
The late Chadwick Boseman was expected to win the award, which, in a very rare move from the academy, was the last to be handed out this year instead of best picture.
It was also an anti-climax on a show where Hopkins wasn’t present to accept the trophy. Joaquin Phoenix’s reading of his name was the last dramatic moment of a most unusual ceremony.
Oscars Latest: Chloé Zhao has made history with Nomadland
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1of12Chloe Zhao arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles.Chris Pizzello/APShow MoreShow Less
2of12Daniel Kaluuya arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles.Chris Pizzello/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of12Emerald Fennell arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles.Chris Pizzello/APShow MoreShow Less
5of12Regina King arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles.Chris Pizzello/APShow MoreShow Less
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7of12FILE - Laura Pausini performs Lado Derecho del Corazon at the 17th annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on Nov. 17, 2016. Pausini will perform the Oscar nominated song Io Si, (Seen) which she co-wrote with Diane Warren for the film The Life Ahead. The Oscars will be broadcast on Sunday. (Photo by Chri
Rolling Stone See Performances of Best Original Song Nominees at Oscars 2021
H.E.R., Leslie Odom, Jr., Celeste, Laura Pausini, and Molly Sanden performed the songs nominated for Academy Awards before Hollywood’s live event
By ABC
Things are of course very different this year, and all performances for the Academy Award nominees for Best Original Song were performed during the preshow, which began at 6:30 p.m. ET., rather than being interspersed and performed live during the Oscars event at Union Station in Los Angeles.
The nominees for Best Original Song span H.E.R.’s soulful anthem from
Judas and the Black Messiah to Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ melodramatically hilarious track from