The Oscars ceremony definitely regarded completely different this 12 months, and never simply due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic.
The Academy Awards have been handed out in a brand new venue: the open, ethereal Union Station, positioned in downtown Los Angeles. As with final 12 months’s ceremony, there was no outlined host, however as an alternative a lineup of celebrities presenting and asserting awards.
The purple carpet was again Sunday, minus the throngs of onlookers and with socially distanced interviews. Solely a handful of media retailers have been allowed on website, behind a velvet rope and far from the nominees.
Informal put on, the academy warned nominees early on, was a no-no. Throughout the Oscar pre-show, nominees gathered at an out of doors set at Union Station that resembled an open-air lounge.
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Chloé Zhao took residence the Greatest Director Oscar for Nomadland, solely the second girl to ever win the award, and the primary girl of color. She is the primary girl of Asian descent to be nominated and to win.
Her movie gained the most important award of the night time: greatest image of the 12 months.
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Daniel Kaluuya gained his first Oscar for enjoying one of many two title roles in Judas and the Black Messiah.
“I’d prefer to thank my mother,” Kaluuya mentioned, as his mom teared up whereas watching. “You gave me every little thing. You gave me your manufacturing unit settings. So I might stand at my fullest peak.”
Yuh-Jung Youn, 73, took residence one of the best supporting actress award for her flip in Minari — she’s the primary Korean girl to win in any performing class. Her acceptance speech was one of many extra animated moments of the night time.
She appeared starstruck by Brad Pitt, who introduced the award.
“Mr. Brad Pitt, lastly, good to fulfill you!” she mentioned.
She mentioned many all through the world have badly botched the pronunciation of her identify, however mentioned “tonight you’re all forgiven.”
In one other heartfelt second, accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, filmmaker Tyler Perry urged the worldwide Oscars viewers to “refuse hate” and work more durable to uplift these on the margins.
“I refuse to hate somebody as a result of they’re Mexican or as a result of they’re black or white. Or LGBTQ. I refuse to hate somebody as a result of they’re a police officer or as a result of they’re Asian. I might hope we might refuse to hate. And I wish to take this humanitarian award and dedicate it to anybody who desires to face within the center. As a result of that’s the place therapeutic, the place dialog, the place change occurs. It occurs within the center. Anybody who desires to fulfill me within the center to refuse hate and blanket judgment, this one is for you, too,” he mentioned in his acceptance speech.
Frances McDormand took residence one of the best actress Oscar for Nomadland, and Anthony Hopkins gained one of the best actor Oscar for The Father.
Award present viewership has cratered through the pandemic, and this 12 months’s Oscar nominees — whereas broadly streamed and extra various than ever — lacked the form of buzz generated in a traditional 12 months. Solely time will inform how the worldwide viewers felt concerning the ceremony.
Discover a full checklist of the winners under.
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Greatest Image
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
** WINNER: Nomadland
Promising Younger Girl
Sound of Steel
The Trial of the Chicago Seven
Actor in a Main Position
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Steel
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Backside
** WINNER: Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Gary Oldman, Mank
Steven Yeun, Minari
Actress in a Main Position
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Backside
Andra Day, The USA vs. Billie Vacation
Vanessa Kirby, Items of a Girl
** WINNER: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Carey Mulligan, Promising Younger Girl
Actor in a Supporting Position
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago Seven
** WINNER: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Leslie Odom, Jr., One Evening in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Steel
Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah
Actress in a Supporting Position
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Shut, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
** WINNER: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
Directing
Thomas Vinterberg, One other Spherical
David Fincher, Mank
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
** WINNER: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Emerald Fennell, Promising Younger Girl
Cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah
** WINNER: Mank
Information of the World
Nomadland
The Trial of the Chicago Seven
Writing (Tailored Screenplay)
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
** WINNER: The Father (Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller)
Nomadland
One Evening in Miami
The White Tiger
Writing (Authentic Screenplay)
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
** WINNER: Promising Younger Girl (Emerald Fennell)
Sound of Steel
The Trial of the Chicago Seven
Movie Modifying
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Younger Girl
** WINNER: Sound of Steel
The Trial of the Chicago Seven
Worldwide Function Movie
** WINNER: One other Spherical
Higher Days
Collective
The Man Who Bought His Pores and skin
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Animated Function Movie
Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Film: Farmageddon
** WINNER: Soul
Wolfwalkers
Animated Brief Movie
Burrow
Genius Loci
** WINNER: If Something Occurs I Love You
Opera
Sure Individuals
Music (Authentic Tune)
** WINNER: “Struggle For You,” Judas and the Black Messiah
“Hear My Voice,” The Trial of the Chicago Seven
“Husavik,” Eurovision Tune Contest: The Story of Hearth Saga
“Io Si,” The Life Forward
“Communicate Now,” One Evening in Miami
Music (Authentic Rating)
Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
Information of the World
** WINNER: Soul
Sound
Greyhound
** WINNER: Sound of Steel
Mank
Information of the World
Soul
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Documentary Function
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
** WINNER: My Octopus Instructor
Time
Documentary Brief Topic
** WINNER: Colette
A Concerto Is a Dialog
Do Not Cut up
Starvation Ward
A Love Tune For Latasha
Make-up and Hairstyling
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
** WINNER: Ma Rainey’s Black Backside
Mank
Pinocchio
Costume Design
Emma
** WINNER: Ma Rainey’s Black Backside
Mank
Mulan
Pinocchio
Stay Motion Brief Movie
Feeling Via
The Letter Room
The Current
** WINNER: Two Distant Strangers
White Eye
Manufacturing Design
The Father
Ma Rainey’s Black Backside
** WINNER: Mank
Information of the World
Tenet
Visible Results
Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Solely Ivan
** WINNER: Tenet
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