Even after recent dramas – #OscarsSoWhite controversies and the fiasco when
La La Land was wrongly named best picture – an Academy Award remains the ultimate prize in the movie industry.
It’s a validation of excellence that comes with more than 90 years of history, celebrity and glamour – as emotional as winning an Olympic gold medal for everyone from famous directors and actors to unknown visual effects technicians, make-up artists and the creators of animated shorts.
How do you win one of these?
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Part of the cachet is mixing with the movie elite at a ceremony in Los Angeles every February or March (moved to April this year because of the pandemic). But Oscars are also famously hard to win. Some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa – have never won best director. And while it might change this year, American director Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to have won
Sir Anthony Hopkins becomes oldest ever winner of best actor Oscar
He was in Wales as the awards were handed out in LA
06:53, 26 APR 2021
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Olivia Colman, left, and Sir Anthony Hopkins in a scene from The Father (Image: Sean Gleason/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)
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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 people of color: Daniel Kuluuya was named best supporting actor for “Judas and the Black Messiah”; and “Minari’s” Yuh-Jung Youn won the supporting actress trophy, the first Korean performer to win an acting Oscar.
Irrfan Khan and Bhanu Athaiya were the Indian film personalities honoured in the In Memoriam montage showcased at the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony held here, on early Monday morning according to India time. Sean Connery and Chadwick Boseman were also among many others that the Academy remembered in the special tribute segment. Oscar nominee Angela Bassett gave a speech with the tribute, which was shown in the form of a video clip and was a homage to achievers the world of screen lost over the past year, including actors, writers, directors, and technicians. Irrfan, who passed away last year in Mumbai at the age of 53 after a two-year battle with neuroendocrine tumour, earned global recognition with his work in projects such as The Warrior , The Namesake , Slumdog Millionaire , The Amazing Spider-Man , Life Of Pi , Jurassic World and Inferno . He passed away on April 29 last year.