Emerald Fennell Thanks "Kindest" and "Greatest" Cast and Crew in Best Original Screenplay Speech

The 2021 Oscars didn’t look like a typical awards show. It surely didn’t flow like a typical awards show.

Emerald Fennell spoke about that shout-out to Zack Morris during her Oscars speech with ET Canada’s Sangita Patel after the ceremony Sunday.

So much to celebrate! Not only did Emerald Fennell win her first Oscar on Sunday, April 25, but she also confirmed that she is pregnant with baby No. 2.

Emerald Fennell's Zack Morris shout out at the 2021 Academy Awards proved to be very relatable. The 35-year-old actress, writer, and director picked up the award for Best Original Screenplay at Sunday's show, noting that she had not prepared a speech in advance. «The only speech I ever wrote was when I was 10, and I had a look to see if there would be anything useful from it, but unfortunately I mostly thanked Zack Morris from, who was my very first sort of husband,» Fennell quipped of the teen

Nomadland has swept the Oscars with wins for its director Chloe Zhao and its lead Frances McDormand as well as best film - with British stars Daniel Kaluuya and Emerald Fennell also among the winners. Zhao, who was born in China, is the first woman from an ethnically diverse background to win the Academy Award for directing, and the second woman in history, after Kathryn Bigelow's triumph 11 years ago for The Hurt Locker.

Call the Midwife star Emerald Fennell has won her first Oscar, after receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for her acclaimed feature debut Promising Young Woman. The 35-year-old actress, writer and director - who played Nurse Patsy Mount in the beloved BBC period drama between 2013 and 2017 - became the first woman to win the award in 13 years.

Best Original Song is one of the most coveted awards in the music industry – arguably more so than the Grammy for Song of the Year. The accolade was first introduced in 1934 at the 7th Academy Awards, and was won by “The Continental” (Con Conrad, Herb Magidson) from Best Film nominee The Gay Divorcee.

Read more“Mianri” actress Youn Yuh-jung also made history as the first Korean and second Asian to take home an Oscar for “Best Supporting Actress. ”Throughout the years, women have often been overlooked during award shows, especially within directing and writing categories.

The talk of Tinsel Town! The 2021 Oscars took over Hollywood — as well as Australia, Germany, and England, among other virtual locations — on Sunday, April 25.

93rd Academy Awards are just a few hours away from taking place at the Los Angeles Rail Station instead of the usual Dolby theater. The ceremony has been affected by the pandemic and only a few hundred nominees will be attending it in person, rest of the oscar bound artists will join in with the help of satellites.

The much-awaited Oscars 2021 awards are being handed out to the lucky and well-deserving winners tonight. , who along with hubby Nick Jonas, announced the nominees recently, was very excited about her movie The White Tiger making it to the nominations.The movie was nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.

Related: ‘It’s wild!’ Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell on making Oscars history “He’s so heavy and so cold,” said Fennell as she accepted the Oscar from Regina King. In an emotional speech, Fennell apologised to Oscars producer Steven Soderbergh for not having written a speech, saying the only one she had written was when she was 10 and much of it was no longer relevant.

Production designer Donald Graham Burt and set decorator Jan Pascale took home statuettes for their work on Mank, at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

Emerald Fennell is now an Oscar winner!

Academy Awards:Original screenplay: “Promising Young Woman,” Emerald FennellAdapted screenplay: Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, “The Father”International film: “Another Round,” DenmarkBest supporting actor: Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”Makeup and hairstyling: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”Costume design: Ann Roth, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”———For complete coverage of this year’s Oscars, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards

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Promising Young Woman won the Oscar on Sunday for Best Original Screenplay, becoming the first woman to win a screenwriting Oscar since 2008, when Diablo Cody won for Juno. Diana Ossana also previously won Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Brokeback Mountain in 2006.

Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller became the first remote winners on tonight’s Oscar show, accepting their Best Adapted Screenplay trophies from London and Paris, respectively.