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While audiences watched a host of stars collect their coveted prizes and put on memorable performances at the 93rd Academy Awards, there was also plenty of action going on away from the glare of TV cameras.
Backstage at the show, which this year was held at Downtown Los Angeles Union Station amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a host of celebrities were seen letting their hair down in candid fashion as they stepped offstage.
Reese Witherspoon was seen beaming broadly as she posed for a series of selfies before a large cabinet of shiny golden Oscar statuettes, after presenting one of the awards on the night.
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Chloé Zhao became the first Asian woman and second woman overall to win the Best Director Oscar when she won the award for her film Nomadland. Photo: Courtesy of Reuters
With his Best Actor win for
The Father, Anthony Hopkins, 83, eclipsed Christopher Plummer as the oldest winner of an acting Oscar in history. Meanwhile, famed costume designer Ann Roth, 89, became the oldest overall female Oscar winner and second-oldest overall Oscar winner ever when she took home the award for Best Costume Design for
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. She’s only a few months younger than She’s only a few months younger than
Oscars 2021 will be remembered as the one where Frances McDormand howled like a wolf It was also the one where Chadwick Boseman didn’t win. The one with the miscalculated finale
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What is the greatest film ever with an unsatisfactory ending? Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons feels like the most appropriate analogy for the 93rd Academy Awards. Not just because it plays out like a masterpiece until a half-baked denouement. Observe also that, in both cases, the catastrophic final act was not entirely the creators’ fault. Welles lost control of the editing and was stuck with a famously botched cut. The organisers of the 2021 Oscars – including the director Steven Soderbergh – took a gamble at the close, and fate leapt in to scupper their ambitions.