‘Soul’ Wins Best Score Oscar, Making Jon Batiste the Second Black Composer to Receive Award

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.

Emmerdale has been snubbed from this year's nominations for the TV BAFTAs, despite winning the award for best soap in 2020. The ITV soap has not received one single nomination, and instead Coronation Street, EastEnders, Hollyoaks and Casualty will battle it out for the accolade at this year's ceremony.

Academy Awards to win the award and the first woman of color.Only Kathryn Bigelow, 11 years ago for “The Hurt Locker,” had previously won the award. The win, widely expected, caps the extraordinary rise of the China-born Zhao, a lyrical filmmaker whose “Nomadland” is just her third feature.

Anthony Hopkins paid tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman in his first reaction to his triumph at the Academy Awards last night, his second Oscar win and first since his performance in 1992 pic The Silence Of The Lambs.

Road movie Nomadland won the top prize at the Oscars, where director Chloe Zhao made history as the first woman of colour to win the award. The ceremony also saw Sir Anthony Hopkins win the best actor Oscar, defeating the late Chadwick Boseman, while Daniel Kaluuya won the best supporting actor prize.

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 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.

Anthony Hopkins pulled off a shocking upset on Sunday,winning the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in over the late Chadwick Boseman at the 93rd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday.Boseman, who died last August after a cancer battle, was a frontrunner to win his first Academy Award posthumously for his work in .

Academy Awards fulfilled many expectations but threw in a couple of surprise wins in an unusual ceremony on Sunday evening. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Oscars moved out of their usual venue, the Dolby Theatre, and were based out of Los Angeles’s Union Station instead.

LOS ANGELES -- Frances McDormand has another Oscar.

LOS ANGELES -- Anthony Hopkins has won his first Oscar since he took one home for playing Hannibal Lecter.Despite his pedigree, Hopkins was a surprise winner.The late Chadwick Boseman was expected to win the award, which in a very rare move from the academy was the last to be handed out this year instead of best picture.It was also an anti-climax on a show where Hopkins wasn’t present to accept the trophy.

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.

for “The Father,” nearly 30 years since winning Best Actor for “The Silence of the Lambs.” The 83-year-old actor won the top honor over Chadwick Boseman, who tragically passed away from cancer at 43 in August.He was not present at the ceremony to accept the win.In addition to Boseman, Hopkins’ performance edged out Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”), Gary Oldman (“Mank”) and Steven Yeun (“Minari”) for the top acting honor.The veteran actor hasn’t taken home an award since his bone-chilling portrayal

Soul picked up its second Oscar win of the night for Original Score and Jon Batiste called out Duke Ellington, Bach and Nina Simone in a stirring celebration speech.

“Fight for You” is taking home Oscar’s best original song at the 93rd ceremony from the Warner Bros. movie Judas and the Black Messiah. 

LOS ANGELES -- Youn Yuh-jung,'' the feisty grandmother in “Minari,” captured more than her grandson's heart.Youn, a prominent film and TV actor in her home country of South Korea, won the best supporting actress award at Sunday’s Oscars.