'Nomadland' makes history, and Chadwick Boseman is upset at the Oscars Colman Domingo, in pink, a star of Ma Raineys Black Bottom, arrives before the 93rd Academy Awards at Union Station in Los Angeles, April 25, 2021. Mark Terrill/Pool via The New York Times. by Brooks Barnes and Nicole Sperling LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Nomadland, Chloé Zhaos meditation on grief and the damaged American dream, won Academy Awards for best picture, director and actress at Sunday nights surreal ceremony, a stage show broadcast on television about films mostly distributed on the internet. It was a sleepy event until the final minutes, when academy voters served up a dramatic twist ending: Anthony Hopkins, 83, won the best actor Oscar for The Father, beating out the late Chadwick Boseman (Ma Raineys Black Bottom), who was the runaway favorite going into the night, having been lauded by film organizations and critics groups for months.