Daniel Kaluuya Completes Awards Season Sweep with Oscar Win for Best Supporting Actor IndieWire 1 hr ago
Daniel Kaluuya won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor thanks to his performance in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” completing an awards season sweep that started with a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe win and extended to victories at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Critics Choice Awards, and the BAFTA Film Awards. Kaluuya is the only 2021 acting winner at the Oscars to sweep the awards season. Kaluuya won the Oscar over Lakeith Stanfield (also from “Judas and the Black Messiah”), Sacha Baron Cohen (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”), Paul Raci (“Sound of Metal”), and Leslie Odom Jr. (“One Night in Miami”).
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Centuryby Jessica Bruder. The film has a fictional composite character – a widow named Fern, played by Frances McDormand – interacting in scenes with many of the actual individuals featured in the book s pages.
Nomadland was nominated for six awards.
Since its premiere on Sept. 11, 2020, at the Venice Film Festival,
Nomadland had received accolades from dozens of critics groups and film societies, including top awards from the Golden Globes,BAFTAs, Critics Choice Awards, and the National Society of Film Critics. It was also named the American Film Institute s Film of the Year.
This year s Oscar nominees had been notable for their diversity, in stark contrast to last year s awards when only one person of color was nominated in the main acting categories, and no women were nominated for Best Director, prompting a social media outcry.
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Nomadland s illustrious journey down the road ended on the Oscars stage, with Chloé Zhao s drama winning Best Picture during Sunday s 93rd Academy Awards.
Taking the stage with
Nomadland team including the real-life nomads cast in the film Zhao paid thanks to all the people we met on the road, thank you for teaching us the power of resilience and hope and reminding us what true kindness looks like.
Chadwick Boseman was nominated for his first Oscar for his final role in Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, with his widow Simone Ledward Johnson arriving to the Oscars to accept the award on his behalf, if he had won.
The 29-year-old attended the awards ceremony at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday night, though her late husband lost out to Anthony Hopkins for The Father.
Ledward had previously accepted Boseman s wins at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards for his portrayal of Levee in Ma Rainey s Black Bottom.
Arrival: Chadwick Boseman was nominated for his first Oscar for his final role in Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, with his widow Simone Ledward Johnson arriving to the Oscars to accept the award on his behalf, if he had won