The 93rd annual Academy Awards were handed out tonight, and in a departure from Oscar history, the Best Picture category was not saved for last. Instead, Searchlight’s Nomadland went home with the night’s marquee prize, and its star Frances McDormand took Best Actress, hours after the film’s Chloé Zhao made history as the first woman of color to win Best Director.
Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for The Father in something of an upset over the late Chadwick Boseman of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
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Nomadland was the only three-time winner at the ceremony, with The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mank, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Sound of Metal and Soul as the other multiple winners.
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On the studio side, Netflix more than doubled up on the competition with seven wins — two each for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Mank, along with trophies for three short films. Searchlight (Nomadland) and Warner Bros’ (Judas and the Black Messiah and Tenet) were next with three apiece, and the other studios with multiple wins were Amazon (Sound of Metal), Disney (Soul) and Sony Pictures Classics (The Father).
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Here is the full list of winners at the 93rd annual Academy Awards:
Best Actor
Anthony Hopkins
The Father
Best Actress
Frances McDormand
Nomadland
Best Picture
Nomadland
Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Chloé Zhao, Producers
Music (Original Song)
“Fight For You” from Judas and the Black Messiah
Music by H.E.R. and Dernst Emile II; Lyric by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas
Music (Original Score)
Soul
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
Film Editing
Sound of Metal
Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
Cinematography
Mank
Erik Messerschmidt
Production Design
Mank
Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
Actress in a Supporting Role
Yuh-Jung Youn
Minari
Visual Effects
Tenet
Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher
Documentary Feature
My Octopus Teacher
Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster
Documentary Short Subject
Colette
Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard
Animated Feature Film
Soul
Pete Docter and Dana Murray
Animated Short Film
If Anything Happens I Love You
Will McCormack and Michael Govier
Live Action Short Film
Two Distant Strangers
Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe
Sound
Sound of Metal
Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh
Directing
Nomadland
Chloé Zhao
Costume Design
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Ann Roth
Makeup and Hairstyling
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson
Actor in a Supporting Role
Daniel Kaluuya
Judas and the Black Messiah
International Feature Film
Another Round
Denmark
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Father
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Promising Young Woman
Written by Emerald Fennell
Love what Tyler Perry said!!!
With all the online platforms to watch movies and tv shows, how do you tell which is which? If a show is episodic, is it a tv show or a limited series? If it’s an anthology but continues year after year is a series or a movie? I watched a lot of shows this past year but until the award nominations were announced I didn’t know what I watched.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear, did it make a sound? If “Nomadland” wins Best Picture and no one watched the Oscars, did it really win?
Shouldn’t your quote be be IF a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound. You said did it make a sound. Doesn’t matter 2021’s Oscars had to be the dumbest by far.People wait hours to hear best picture which is announced last and the best actor doesn’t bother to show up to pick up his Oscar. Plus there was no red carpet and no host. waste of time and money
It was 4:AM in the UK. And can you really blame an 83-year-old man for not wanting to spend 12 hours inside an airplane–twice?
Maybe they should have panned the cameras 180 degrees and show the thousands of homeless the city of LA has right outside that station! Why not bring that kind of “diversity” to that self promoting, political grandstanding, sanctimonious PR stunt of a show.
Never Heard of any of these films. Theaters need to come back, too many online places to see them and who the hell knows which ones are even this years. I would like to see the Hopkins movie does anyone know where you can see it??