By City News Service
93rd Annual Academy Awards - Arrivals
HOLLYWOOD (CNS) - Viewership for ABC s Oscars telecast plummeted to 9.85 million viewers, according to preliminary figures released today by Nielsen, continuing the trend of record-low viewership for awards shows since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Viewership for Sunday s host-less ceremony held at Union Station dropped 58% from the 23.569-million average for the 2020 ceremony, which had been a record low.
Final figures are scheduled to be released Tuesday, but are not expected to change significantly from those released Monday. The difference between preliminary and final figures for the Oscars is customarily between 100,000 and 300,000 viewers.
Movies by Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post 27th Apr 2021 10:52 AM Â Remember when the controversial
Roma for Best Picture in 2019? Or when
Moonlight in 2017? Or way back in 1997, when li l
Shakespeare In Love took down big honkin
Saving Private Ryan? Usually that s all part of the fun. But to casual film fans, yesterday s big upset packed a particularly emotional wallop: The late Chadwick Boseman lost the Best Actor prize to Anthony Hopkins. Chadwick Boseman as Levee in Netflix s Ma Rainey s Black Bottom. Picture: David Lee/Netflix The final award of the evening had always previously been Best Picture, but it was changed to Best Actor for this year s event. So, viewers assumed that move was to honour Boseman, who died in August of colon cancer aged 43. But, shocking everyone, he didn t win for his role in
Movies by Johnny Oleksinski, New York Post 27th Apr 2021 10:52 AM Â Remember when the controversial
Roma for Best Picture in 2019? Or when
Moonlight in 2017? Or way back in 1997, when li l
Shakespeare In Love took down big honkin
Saving Private Ryan? Usually that s all part of the fun. But to casual film fans, yesterday s big upset packed a particularly emotional wallop: The late Chadwick Boseman lost the Best Actor prize to Anthony Hopkins. Chadwick Boseman as Levee in Netflix s Ma Rainey s Black Bottom. Picture: David Lee/Netflix The final award of the evening had always previously been Best Picture, but it was changed to Best Actor for this year s event. So, viewers assumed that move was to honour Boseman, who died in August of colon cancer aged 43. But, shocking everyone, he didn t win for his role in
Nomadland not only won Best Motion Picture of the Year, but director/producer Chloé Zhao was the second woman to win the Best Directing Award and the first woman of color to win the award.
Janvey, who majored in film studies at Wesleyan, shares the Best Picture award with co-producers Zhao, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Mollye Asher.
Janvey also produced the film
Beasts of the Southern Wild, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2013 and was the winner of the Back Reel Awards in 2013.
Nomadland also won a 2021 Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature; a 2021 Chicago Indie Critics Award for Best Independent Film; a 2021 Gold Derby Award for Best Motion Picture; a 2021 Gotham Award for Best Feature; a 2021 Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Film Award for Best Picture; a 2021 North Dakota Film Society Award for Best Picture; a 2021 BAFTA Award for Best Film; a 2021 CinEuphoria Award for International Competition Best Film; a PGA Award for Outstanding Produ
Nomadland makes history, and Chadwick Boseman is upset at the Oscars
Colman Domingo, in pink, a star of Ma Raineys Black Bottom, arrives before the 93rd Academy Awards at Union Station in Los Angeles, April 25, 2021. Mark Terrill/Pool via The New York Times.
by Brooks Barnes and Nicole Sperling
LOS ANGELES
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Nomadland, Chloé Zhaos meditation on grief and the damaged American dream, won Academy Awards for best picture, director and actress at Sunday nights surreal ceremony, a stage show broadcast on television about films mostly distributed on the internet.
It was a sleepy event until the final minutes, when academy voters served up a dramatic twist ending: Anthony Hopkins, 83, won the best actor Oscar for The Father, beating out the late Chadwick Boseman (Ma Raineys Black Bottom), who was the runaway favorite going into the night, having been lauded by film organizations and critics groups for months.