By The Associated Press on April 25, 2021.
Paul Raci, left, and Liz Hanley Raci arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark Terrill, Pool)
LOS ANGELES – The Latest on the Oscars (all times local):
8:15 p.m.
“Nomadland” has wandered straight into the Academy Award for best picture.
It’s an unprecedented triumph in the awards show’s most prestigious category for a film with a woman as both director and lead.
In a radical departure from previous decades, the best picture Oscar was not the last handed out. Best actress and best actor have yet to be awarded.
7 p.m.
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.
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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.
She seemed starstruck herself by Brad Pitt, who presented the award.
“Mr. Brad Pitt, finally, nice to meet you!” she said.
She said many throughout the world have badly botched the pronunciation of her name, but “tonight you are all forgiven.”
Oscars Latest: H.E.R. wins the best original song trophy
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7:30 p.m.
“Fight for You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah” has won the Academy Award for best original song.
The Oscar goes to songwriters Dernst Emile II and Tiara Thomas and H.E.R., who also performed it.
From the stage at Union Station in Los Angeles on Sunday night, H.E.R. thanked her father for playing her funk and soul from the late 60s, when the film about Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton was set.
“All those days of listening to Sly and the Family Stone, and Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye really paid off,” she said.
I’m not sure we need this kind of lean approach every year, but it did seem like the right style for a sobering year that has been ridden with loss, grief, illness, and financial strain.