Oscars 2021 highlights: Chloé Zhao won Best Director, Nomadland won Best Picture and Best Actress, Irrfan Khan was honoured in the in memorium segment, and Anthony Hopkins pipped the late Chadwick Boseman for Best Actor.
Chloe Zhao made history at the 93rd Academy Awards as the first woman of colour to win the Oscar for Best Director for Nomadland, which also won Best Picture.
An Oscars ceremony unlike any other was held on Monday morning, with no host, no audience, nor face masks for nominees attending The 93rd Academy Award at Los Angeles’ Union Station — this year’s hub for a show usually broadcast from the Dolby Theatre.
Oscars 2021 Highlights
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom picked up two Oscars, with Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round winning Best International Feature Film.
Ann Roth became the oldest woman to win an Oscar. She won the Best Costume Design award for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Pete Doctor picked up his third career Oscar for Soul, Pixar’s latest animated film. Minari’s Yuh-Jung Youn became the first Korean actor to win an Oscar, a year after Parasite became the first Korean film to be honoured at the Academy Awards.
Emerald Fennell became the first woman in 13 years to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, while Mank’s two wins put it ahead of the film it honoured, Citizen Kane.
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The Oscars this year were historic at several levels – for one, it boasts the most diverse list of nominees in the history of the Academy Awards; for another, in addition to the traditional venue of Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre, much of the ceremony is taking place at Union Station. This year, the categories of Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing have been consolidated into a single Best Sound award. Also, there is no host for the award ceremony for the third year running