Oscars
NOMADLAND Garners Three Oscars Including Best Picture
The 93rd Oscars took place on Sunday evening at Union Station Los Angeles and the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood.
“Nomadland” received three Academy Awards, including Best Motion Picture, Actress in a Leading Role, and Directing. With “Nomadland,” Searchlight Pictures now has 43 Academy Awards including five Best Motion Picture winners since 2009: “Slumdog Millionaire,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Birdman,” “The Shape of Water,” and “Nomadland.”
“Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao is now the first Chinese woman and second woman ever to win Best Director. This is the third Oscar for lead actress Frances McDormand.
Zhao is also directing the upcoming Marvel superhero film, Eternals.
McDormand, who took home the Best Actress Oscar, became the third woman (after Barbra Streisand and Oprah Winfrey) and the twentieth person to have both an acting and a Best Picture nomination, not necessarily for the same film. This is her third win and makes her a member of an elite club that includes Meryl Streep, Daniel Day Lewis and Jack Nicholson as the winners of three acting Oscars. The late Katharine Hepburn won a record four.
Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance as a man with dementia in The Father. Hopkins is the only acting nominee who was also nominated last year, The Two Popes. This is his sixth nomination and fourth in this category. His best lead actor win on Sunday made him the oldest actor to get an Academy Award, an honor previously held by the late Christopher Plummer.
Celeste, H.E.R., Leslie Odom, Jr., Laura Pausini, Daniel Pemberton, Molly Sandén and Diane Warren performed the five nominated original songs in their entirety for “Oscars: Into the Spotlight,” the lead-in to the 93rd Oscars. In a break from the traditional live performances during the Oscar show, producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh announced that one performance would be recorded in Húsavík, Iceland and four at the Dolby Family Terrace of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
BEST PICTURE
“Nomadland”
BEST ACTOR
Anthony Hopkins – “The Father”
BEST ACTRESS
Frances McDormand – “Nomadland”
BEST DIRECTOR
Chloe Zhao – “Nomadland”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Kaluuya – “Judas and the Black Messiah”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Youn Yuh-jung – “Minari”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“Promising Young Woman”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“The Father”
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Soul” – “Soul” marks Pixar’s 11th Best Animated Feature Film award, and it’s the third Oscar for “Soul” director and Pixar Chief Creative Officer, Pete Docter, who previously won for “Up” and “Inside Out.” Since the creation of the award category in 2001, Pixar has won more than half of the Best Animated Feature statuettes. This is the second time a Pixar film has been recognized for Best Original Score (first win was “Up”).
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
“My Octopus Teacher”
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
“Another Round” (Denmark)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Fight for You” – “Judas and the Black Messiah”
FILM EDITING
“SOUND OF METAL” – Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
SOUL – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
CINEMATOGRAPHY
“MANK” – Erik Messerschmidt
COSTUME DESIGN
“MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM” – Ann Roth
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
“COLETTE” – Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyar
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM” – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson
PRODUCTION DESIGN
“MANK’ – Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU – Will McCormack and Michael Govie
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
TWO DISTANT STRANGERS – Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe
VISUAL EFFECTS
“TENET” – Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher
SOUND
“SOUND OF METAL” – Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Awards went to filmmaker Tyler Perry and to the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF). Now in its 100th year, the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) offers a variety of services to provide emotional and financial relief to entertainment industry members and their families during times of need, including case management, financial assistance for basic living expenses, palliative care, and senior and childcare services. The organization’s contribution during the pandemic has made a significant impact on the entertainment community, providing social services support to nearly 9,000 industry members in 2020. MPTF also offers a wide range of housing accommodations from independent and assisted living to nursing and memory care. Jean Hersholt, for whom the Academy’s humanitarian award is named, served as president of the Fund for 18 years, from 1938 until his death in 1956.
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