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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 colour. 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 ...

  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 became the first woman of colour to win best director and a historically diverse group of winners took home awards. In the biggest surprise of a socially distanced Oscar ceremony held during the pandemic, best actor went to Anthony Hopkins for his performance in the dementia drama "The Father." The award had been widely expected to go to Chadwick Boseman for his final performance in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom....

Dann Gire traverses the year's 'Nomadland' in search of Oscar winners Director Chloe Zhao, left, will likely win an Oscar Sunday night for "Nomadland." The film is also a sure bet for Best Feature, though actress Frances McDormand, right, is in one of the tighest races. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures   Posted4/22/2021 6:00 AM Part of me secretly hopes I am wrong about my predictions for the 93rd Academy Awards. Predicting many of the winners seems way too easy.   Surely, a dark horse upset or a fumbled winner's announcement will inject some surprises into a TV viewing experi...

His soul, unwilling to accept his fate and on an escalator to the Great Beyond sneaks over to the Great Before, a place where counselors mentor unborn souls to help them enter earth. Joe is mistaken as a counselor and gets paired with 22 (Tina Fey), an irascible soul, music hater and in no mood to find a spark to live a life on earth having even failed inspirations from mentors such as Mother Teresa, Abraham Lincoln and Muhammad Ali. During Joe’s unwise attempt to forcibly get back to earth, 22 is dragged with him and instead of Joe reentering his body, 22 becomes Joe and the piano player e...

You came out in your thousands to vote for the winners of the RadioTimes.com Awards 2021 and the results are in. Advertisement We announced the results during a star-studded virtual ceremony – which you can catch up on over on our Facebook page. Read on for all the big winners from the RadioTimes.com Awards 2021! Best Drama: Des Danny Mays, who accepted the award on behalf of Des, commented: “I’d love to give a huge, heartfelt thank you to all of the readers of Radio Times who voted Des Best Drama at this year’s awards. We are absolutely thrilled to bits, thank you so much. The res...