With no crowds, new venue, reinvented Oscars set for takeoff
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An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night, with history on the line in major categories and a telecast retooled for the pandemic.
The 93rd Academy Awards will begin at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC. There will be no host, no audience, nor face masks for nominees attending the ceremony at Los Angeles’ Union Station – this year’s hub for a show usually broadcast from the Dolby Theatre. In contrast with the largely virtual Golden Globes, Zoom boxes have been closed out – though numerous international hubs and satellite feeds will connect nominees unable to travel.
‘Nomadland’ wins best picture at social distanced Oscars
‘Nomadland’ wins best picture at social distanced Oscars
It was perhaps the most diverse Academy Awards ever, with more women and more actors of color nominated than ever before.
Chloe Zhao arrives at the Oscars on Sunday. Zhao s Nomadland won best picture.(Chris Pizzello)
Chloe Zhao’s
Nomadland, a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color.
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Nomadland victory, while widely expected, nevertheless capped the extraordinary rise of Zhao, a lyrical filmmaker whose winning film is just her third, and which with a budget less than $5 million and featuring a cast populated by non-professional actors ranks as one of the most modest-sized movies to win Hollywood’s top honor. Zhao’s next film, Marvel’s
Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland," a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color.
Oscars 2021: ‘Nomadland,’ Chloe Zhao the big winners at ambitious 93rd Academy Awards
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Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color.
The “Nomadland” victory, while widely expected, nevertheless capped the extraordinary rise of Zhao, a lyrical filmmaker whose winning film is just her third, and which with a budget less than $5 million and featuring a cast populated by non-professional actors ranks as one of the most modest-sized movies to win Hollywood’s top honor. Zhao’s next film, Marvel’s “Eternals,” has a budget approximately 40 times that of “Nomadland.” Only Kathryn Bigelow, 11 years ago for “The Hurt Locker,” had previously won best director.