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Monday, April 26, 2021 The swanky 93rd Academy Awards took place in Los Angeles last night - and it was a big night for the Brits as Anthony Hopkins landed the Oscar for Best Actor. It was thought to be going to the late Chadwick Boseman for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom who died last year after a cancer battle. In a Hollywood twist of events, the Academy handed out the Best Actor award last instead of Best Picture seeing Hopkins became the oldest ever acting Oscar winner for his heartwrenching role in The Father playing a dementia-suffering man opposite Olivia Colman.

The national reckoning about systemic racism in the US was also a theme following the murder conviction last week of a white police officer who knelt on the neck of George Floyd. “As a mother of a black son, I know the fear that so many live with, and no amount of fame or fortune changes that,” said Regina King, who directed One Night in Miami about four black icons at the height of the 1960s civil rights movement. Youn Yuh-jung, 73, won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as a cantankerous grandmother in the immigrant tale Minari. Youn, the first South Korean actor or actre...

Emma to take home top honors and make long-overdue history.  "I wanted to say thank you to our ancestors who put the work in, were denied, but never gave up," Neal said upon accepting the award, telling the audience about her Tuskeegee Airman grandfather, James Holland. "And I also stand here as Jamika and I break this glass ceiling with so much excitement for the future. Because I can picture Black trans women standing up here, and Asian sisters, and our Latina sisters, and Indigenous women. And I know that one day it won’t be unusual or groundbreaking it will just be normal."

  Alan S. Kim made sure that his first Oscar appearance will be spectacular as he delighted the fans with his stylish suit made by the American fashion designer Thom Browne. The Critics' Choice 2021 winner danced and struck poses sporting a black tuxedo with shorts and long socks that screams business at the top and party at the bottom. According to Glamour magazine, E! host Giuliana Rancic interviewed the nine-year-old about his Oscars experience. When asked which star he is most excited to see at the event, the newcomer explained that he wanted to see all celebrities, especially his co-sta...

Best Actor nominee Riz Ahmed and his wife, author Fatima Farheen Mirza made their red carpet debut at the Oscars on Sunday evening. The newlyweds looked stunning on the red carpet and Ahmed made sure his wife looked her glamorous best. During the photo op, Riz made the photographers pause for a moment to fix his wife's hair.  "I'm the official groomer," he joked to the photographers.