‘Nomadland’ wins Oscar for Best Picture 2021

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.

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.

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

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.

Nomadland’s award for Best Picture. McDormand served as a producer on Chloe Zhao’s independent drama, in which she also stars as a woman struggling to stay afloat on the fringes of society.

Nomadland, the drama from Chloé Zhao starring Frances McDormand, was awarded the evening’s top prize, which rounds out its impressive awards haul since it first premiered in 2019. Zhao accepted the award, thanking “the people on the road” for showing the film’s cast and crew “what true kindness looks like”.

Nomadland, directed by the Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao, is part of a long lineage of non-American American art, from Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas to Andrea Arnold’s American Honey. It grapples with grief, the betrayals of capitalism, and the lure of the open road.

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.

'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.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterMaking Academy Awards history in the most awkward way imaginable, Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for best actor for his performance in “The Father,” becoming the oldest winner ever.Hopkins, however, was not on hand to accept the award, which for the first time in Oscars history was placed at the very end of the telecast, after “Nomadland” had won best picture and Frances McDormand took home best actress.

Frances McDormand is a big winner!

Seventy women representing a record 76 Oscar nominations translated to a record number of female wins Sunday with 17 awards, beating a previous high of 15 set in 2019 and running the gamut from best director and picture to original screenplay, animated film and song.

All season long, the Best Actress in a Leading role category was nearly impossible to predict, but tonight at the 93rd Academy Awards, Frances McDormand took home the Oscar statue in the end, for the night’s frontrunner “Nomadland” which was likely a close race. The award was the third Oscar Best Actress prize for McDormand.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFor the first time in more than a decade — and only the second time in history — a woman has won the Oscar for best director.Chloé Zhao on Sunday night took home the Academy Award for best director for “Nomadland,” a sweeping drama about a widow in her 60s (Frances McDormand) who travels the Western United States in a van after losing her job in the Great Recession.

Nomadland, which stars Frances McDormand as a restless itinerant worker who lives out of her van, is also up for four other awards tonight. Zhao is the first woman of color ever to be nominated in the category.Accepting the award from Boon Jong Ho, the director of last year's Parasite, Zhao thanked her fellow nominees and the company of Nomadland.