Oscars: How 3 Best Picture Nominees Portrayed Specific Communities in an Authentic Way

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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.

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

Frances McDormand won the award for best actress at the 93rd annual Academy Awardsfor her role in Nomadland. McDormand, having just thanked the Oscars audience for Nomadland's best picture win, offered a succinct but heartfelt speech.

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”.

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.

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.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorAfter all the talk about the unexpected and unpredictable, the 93rd Academy Awards delivered with surprise wins in the lead actor categories for Anthony Hopkins and Frances McDormand. Another shocker was that best picture was not announced last — they saved the lead acting categories for that.Also surprising was how smoothly the ceremony went with some big changes.

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!

Frances McDormand picked up her third Best Actress Oscar tonight for her performance in the Chloé Zhao-directed drama Nomadland. This ties McDormand with the now-retired Daniel Day Lewis for the highest amount of wins in the leading actor category.