Oscars 2021: Chloe Zhao, Frances McDormand, Youn Yuh Jung & other winners who made history at Academy Awards

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.

Nomadland,” and also received the top prize for picture. She’s only the second woman to win an Oscar for director — after Kathryn Bigelow (for 2009’s “The Hurt Locker”) — and Zhao, who was born in Beijing, is the first woman of color to receive the prize.

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.

2021 Oscars are in the books, but the movies they recognized are still available for your viewing pleasure.

One memorable moment that happened at the 2021 Oscars is when Best Actress winner Frances McDormand let out a big howl during the acceptance speech for the Nomadland‘s Best Picture win.

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

win an Oscar for best director for her film Nomadland. But in China, Zhao’s country of birth, posts about her victory were removed and Weibo searches for her Chinese name returned results about a low-level official who had volunteered to promote a local Covid-19 vaccination drive.

Frances McDormand - a woman who leaves her hometown in Nevada after her husband dies and the sole industry closes down, and then travels around the US in search of seasonal work. Fern is not a real person, but the film is based on Jessica Bruder's non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, which follows the trend of older Americans moving around the country for seasonal jobs.

Just like he did at the 2019 BET Awards and the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards, Tyler Perry delivered another rousing speech, this time at the 2021 Oscars on Sunday. “I would hope that we would refuse hate,” Perry said during his powerful address while receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in one of the highlights of the Academy Awards telecast on ABC.

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.

Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her impeccable performance in Chloé Zhao's Nomadland at Oscars 2021. Interestingly, this is Frances’ third Oscar win.

'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.

Renee Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix, who won the top acting awards at last year’s Oscars, returned for the 2021 Academy Awards to bestow the awards on this year’s winners.

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).