Oscars 2021 winners: Youn Yuh-jung delights as she becomes first ever Korean to earn acting Academy Award in Best Supporting Actress category for Minari
Youn Yuh-jung became the first ever Korean to win an acting award as she earned Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Minari
Chloe Zhao became the first woman of color to win in the Best Director category for Nomadland
Daniel Kaluuya won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his work on Judas And The Black Messiah
Emerald Fennell took home first Oscar of the night in Best Original Screenplay for Promising Young Woman
British actor Daniel Kaluuya won Best Supporting Actor at last night s Oscars for playing civil rights activist Fred Hampton. Photo: PA THE 2021 edition of the Oscars took place overnight, handing out the most prestigious awards in the film industry for the best movies of the past 12 months. British actors dominated, with Sir Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Kaluuya both winning, while drama Nomadland had a successful evening. The full list of winners at the 93rd Academy Awards is:
Best picture: Nomadland
Best supporting actor: Daniel Kaluuya (Judas And The Black Messiah)
Best actress: Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Best supporting actress: Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari)
Paul Raci has been heaped with praise by fans for signing while he spoke on the red carpet at the 2021 Academy Awards on Sunday night.
The actor, 73, was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his turn as Joe in Sound of Metal, which sees him play the head of a shelter for deaf recovering addicts and use sign language throughout the film.
While speaking to E!, Paul simultaneously signed as he said of director Darius Marder: He worked on it for 14 years, he vetted it with deaf people all across the country, and still had a learning curve as we started filming it, having three deaf advisers on the set to get it right.
At a deeply political and surprising Oscars, Nomadland triumphs
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It was obvious when actor and director Regina King strode sassily into Union Station with credits rolling as if she was in one of Steven Soderbergh’s
Ocean’s movies. This was going to be a very different Academy Awards.
And in a pandemic-affected year, so it proved as the poetic road movie
Nomadland won best picture, China’s Chloe Zhao made history by winning best director, there were surprise triumphs for Frances McDormand and Anthony Hopkins in the lead acting categories and Australia’s Andrew Jackson claimed best visual effects for