‘Nomadland’ Win Clinches Record Oscar Night For Women; Big Awards, Across Categories

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything from Academy Award winner Tom McCarthy, the director of “Spotlight,” and his dramatic thriller, “Stillwater” which was seemingly shot a long time ago, but delayed by the pandemic. Starring Matt Damon, Abigail Breslin and Camille Cottin, “Stilwater” centers on a father who travels from Oklahoma to France to help his daughter who has been arrested for murder.

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century which became – of course - a 2021 Oscar winning film starring Frances McDormand. “It was a little scary to hand over material I'd spent many, many years working on with people I’d come to care about,” she says, “But for me, looking at Chloé Zhao’s past work, I just thought, she's a phenomenal chef.

Refresh for latest…: Yet another international box office frame was led by Chinese movies in their home market as local May Day holdovers continued play coming off a record holiday session. While a handful of studio titles are doing business in other pockets of the world, we are in something of a holding pattern until majors like the UK and France begin opening in the coming weeks, and as Universal’s F9 is expected to rev up overseas turnstiles for Hollywood starting on May 19.

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWith deserving artisans having taken home their Oscars, Variety looks ahead to the below-the-line contributions for films voters might see on the ballot next year.Wes Anderson’s much-anticipated “The French Dispatch,” about a fictional American magazine based in France, includes the work of many of his frequent collaborators: Composer Alexandre Desplat, production designer Adam Stockhausen and costumer designer Milena Canonera all won Oscars on the director’s

The tradition of featuring the Academy Award winner for Best Director on Variety‘s post-Oscars cover continues with “Nomadland”‘s Chloe Zhao. On the morning after her historic award win that saw her become only the second woman to win the directing honour and the first woman of colour to do so, Zhao tells Variety all about the honour and “Nomadland”‘s Best Picture win.

Oscars! Chloé Zhao's touching film took home some of the Academy Awards most-coveted honors on Sunday, including Zhao herself becoming the first woman of color ever to win Best Director, in addition to Best Picture and Best Actress, which went to Frances McDormand -- her third in the category, putting her only behind Katherine Hepburn all-time, who won the honor four times. is on Hulu now.

Frances McDormand is an actress that has made a career out of going her own way. She has a passionate fan base and has cultivated a successful acting career of nearly four decades.

An interesting- though not completely surprising statistic – from the 2021 Academy Awards is about the best picture winner, Nomadland.

An award season like no other has finally come to a close with the 93rd Academy Awards rolling up the virtual red carpet on a year of movie-watching at home. Today, a new crop of winners — Daniel Kaluuya, Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand, Yuh-jung Youn — are basking in Oscar’s glow, getting ready to tackle their first post-win projects.

Oscars 2021: Full list of winners from the 93rd Academy AwardsBest picture: NomadlandBest actor: Sir Anthony Hopkins (The Father)Best supporting actor: Daniel Kaluuya (Judas And The Black Messiah)Best actress: Frances McDormand (Nomadland)Best supporting actress: Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari)Best director: Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)Best animated feature film: SoulBest cinematography: Erik Messerschmidt (Mank)Best film editing: Mikkel EG Nielsen (Sound Of Metal)Best costume design: Ann Roth (Ma Rainey’s

Minari. British star Daniel Kaluuya, who was previously Oscar-nominated for his role in 2017's Get Out, won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Black Panther chair Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah.

Nomadland was named best picture at the 2021 Oscars on Sunday. "We thank the Academy, and we thank our brilliant fellow nominees," said director and producer Chloé Zhao as she stepped up to the podium with producersMollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand and Peter Spears.

's illustrious journey down the road ended on the Oscars stage, with Chloé Zhao's drama winning Best Picture during Sunday's 93rd Academy Awards. Taking the stage with team — including the real-life nomads cast in the film — Zhao paid thanks to «all the people we met on the road, thank you for teaching us the power of resilience and hope and reminding us what true kindness looks like.»The win makes Oscars history, as becomes only the second ever Best Picture winner directed by a woman.

Anthony Hopkins has won the best actor Oscar at the 93rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Hopkins, 83, won for his performance as an elderly man with dementia in The Father, directed by French novelist and playwright Florian Zeller, who also wrote the acclaimed stage play on which the film is based.

Best Actress at this year’s Academy Awards for her role in Nomadland. The win represents McDormand’s third in the category, with the actor having previously won Best Actress for her roles in Fargo (in 1997) andThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (in 2018).

Frances McDormand is a three-time Best Actress winner! The star took home the Best Actress in a Leading Role award at the 93rd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday for her work in the film, which she produced and starred in.

After being delayed from its usual February date, the Oscars finally took place albeit in a different location. Leaving its home of Dolby Theatre, the ceremony was held in LA’s Union Station and also held screenings in London and Paris for those who couldn’t travel to the States.