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Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao's Nomadland was the unmistakable big winner at the 93rd Academy Awards Sunday night, taking home best picture, best director and best actress. In a piece of potent history, Zhao became the first Asian woman, the first Chinese woman and first woman of color to win the top directing prize at theOscars.

The 2021 Oscars changed up the order of the awards, saving best actor and actress for the end of the night, after the award for the top prize of best picture, and if viewers turned off their TVs after Nomadland captured its expected best picture win, they missed two big surprises.

Two Netflix shorts — one on the topic ofpolice brutality and one on gun violence — were honored Sunday at the Oscars. If Anything Happens I Love You-- which follows two parents grieving the loss of their child in a school shooting -- won the Oscar for best animated short, while Two Distant Strangers collected the Academy Award for a live-action short.

Laura Dern was among the Hollywood A-listers who were ready for a party tonight as the 93rd Academy Awards organized a safe in-person event at L.A.’s Union Station.That’s reflected in the look she put together with star stylist Elizabeth Stewart, a long-sleeve Oscar de la Renta gown featuring a skirt richly embellished with ostrich feathers, paired with jewels by Pomellato.

Nomadland on Sunday night became the lowest-grossing film at the domestic box office to walk away with Oscars'top prize — best picture. The history-making statistic wasn't a surprise, considering that theaters across the North America were closed for more than a year, including during the heart of awards season, forcing distributors to rely on hybrid theatrical and in-home releases.

On Sunday, Chloé Zhao's elegiac neo-Western Nomadland made Oscar history, winning best picture, best director and best actress at the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. It is the first directing victory for a non-white female filmmaker.

In a surprise win, Anthony Hopkins took home the best actor statue at the Oscars on Sunday for his work in The Father. Going into the ceremony, the late Chadwick Boseman was the heavy favorite to win for his final film role asLevee inMa Rainey's Black Bottom.

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.

A new location, socially distanced seating and nominees appearing remotely were just some of the pandemic-inspired elements at the 2021 Oscars. While some of the 2021 Oscars aired from the awards' longtime home, Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, the ceremony largely took place at Los Angeles' Union Station, with the set looking like a banquet dinner, with small, separated seating areas and tables.

“I’m a blue jeans and T-shirt kind of guy, so this is quite the moment for me,” says Jim LeBrecht, who along with Nicole Newnham co-directed Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, nominated at the 93rd Academy Awards for best documentary feature. An inspiring story of Camp Jened, a Catskills summer camp for the disabled, Crip Camp is also partly LeBrecht’s story; he has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, and first visited Camp Jened as a teenager in 1971.

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.

And the award for best impromptu dance moves surprising and delighting viewers three-hours into a solemn and interminable Oscars telecast goes to... Glenn Close! The 74-year-oldHillbilly Elegy actress busted into some posterior pumping at the Academy Awards on Sunday night.

"Fight For You" from Judas and the Black Messiahtook home the Academy Award for best original song during the 2021 OscarsSunday night. H.E.R.'s song beat out fellow nominees "Husavik" from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga; "lo Sì (Seen)" from The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se); "Speak Now" from One Night in Miami and "Hear My Voice" from The Trial of the Chicago 7.

In the Heights is back with a new trailer in time for the Oscars. The Warner Bros.

Yuh-JungYoun has made history at the 2021 Oscars. The Minari star won best supporting actress at the annual awards ceremony on Sunday night and, in doing so, became the first Korean actor or actress to win an Oscar in the show's 93-year history.

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The 93rd annual Oscars are being handed out Sunday night. In case you missed the action, here are some of the biggest moments.

On a night in which Netflix led all studios with 35 Oscar nominations, traditional distributors had the last laugh, as Searchlight's Nomadland landed the top prize. Likewise, Chloé Zhao picked up the best director statue for the film, a modern-day odyssey of the dispossessed surviving on the edges of the American dream.

TheOscar producers had promised a joyous and different kind of show this year. So, to kick off the annual awards ceremony, Regina King starred in the 2021 Oscars opening title sequence.

Chloé Zhao has become only the second woman to ever win the Academy Award for best director, accepting the prize at the 2021 Oscars. The award was presented by last year's winner, Bong Joon Ho, in Seoul, before Zhao took the stage to accept it at the awards' main venue, Los Angeles' Union Station.

DanielKaluuya took home the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in Judas and the Black Messiah during Sunday night's 2021 Oscars. The actor beat out fellow nomineesSacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Leslie Odom Jr.

The first trailer for West Side Story danced its way to the Oscars on Sunday night. Steven Spielberg's remake of the 1961 classic starsAnsel Elgort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as Maria.

Emerald Fennell accepted the best original screenplay award for Promising Young Woman at the 2021 Oscars on Sunday. "So, the only speech I ever wrote is when I was 10, and I looked to see if there would be anything useful from it, but unfortunately I only thanked Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell, who was my very supportive husband," joked Fennell at the podium in front of the socially distanced audience.

Don’t look for subtle or low-key at tonight’s Academy Awards: Stars are ready to shine and celebrate. Best actress nominees Andra Day, in custom Vera Wang, Carey Mulligan, in a two-piece Valentino look and Leslie Odom Jr.

During the opening of the Oscarson Sunday, Regina King made mention of the recentDerek Chauvin verdict. "It has been quite a year, and we are still smack-dab in the middle of it," King began.

Hollywood is marking the culmination of an unprecedented awards season on Sunday night, as the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony is underway. In top categories,Chloé Zhao won best director forSearchlight'sNomadland, becoming only the second woman ever to claim that honor at the Oscars.Yuh-Jung Youn won best supporting actress forMinari, becomingthe first ever Korean actor or actress to win an Oscar.

The Oscars may be a little different this year,thanks to the pandemic, but there is still a red carpet — and plenty of stars who walked it ahead of Sunday's show. Oscar nomineesCarey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun, Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Leslie Odom Jr., Chloé Zhao, Paul Raci, Glenn Close and Diane Warren were among those who hit the carpet for the 93rd annual Academy Awards.

Ahead of the 2021 Oscars, this year's nominees and presenters are walking the red carpet outside of the ceremony's primary venue of Los Angeles' Union Station. A few media outlets are stationed along the carpet, including the ABC-owned TV stations, which are airing their own preshow in 86 markets and across 20 countries.

Giorgio Armani has been Glenn Close’s preferred designer for more than 30 years, starting with the first suit she purchased at Barneys (the look still resides in her closet). The legendarydesigner dressed Close in 1990 for the Kennedy Center Honors, where the actress paid tribute to Katharine Hepburn.

Zadrian Smith and Sarah Edmiston had roughly six days to put together the two looks Ariana DeBose is wearing at this year’s Academy Awards, a scenario that was further complicated by the fact that they were both in London when they got the call. "It’s been fast and furious,” Smith tells The Hollywood Reporter.

On Sunday night at the 93rd Academy Awards, when Andra Day is singled out as a best actress nominee for her performance as Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, veteran Oscar watchers might well experience a moment of déjà vu.Forty-eight years ago, another popular singer, Diana Ross, was sitting in that same seat, having been nominated for her breakthrough portrayal of Holiday in 1972’s Lady Sings the Blues.

The screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz — whose life is the inspiration for Mank, heading into the Academy Awards with 10 nominations, the most of any film — was himself an Oscar winner in 1941 for Citizen Kane, sharing the honor with Orson Welles. But Mankiewicz did not attend the ceremony.

The National Football League is partnering with Clubhouse to exclusively produce a lineup of programming during the 2021 NFL Draft. Beginning April 26, the NFL will host a series of rooms on Clubhouse, the social media app which is audio-based, invite-only and free to download — such as a pre-draft assessment of the prospective players, draft debriefs, a conversation with Crimson Tide alumni, and more.

A special virtual edition of the annual "Night Before" extravaganza raised nearly $2 million for the Motion Picture & Television Fund on Saturday night with help from Gary Oldman, Andra Day, Renée Zellweger and many more. One of the key events of Oscar weekend, the "Night Before" party — an exclusive, invitation-only affair that typically draws a list of Hollywood who's-who as well as past Oscar winners and current nominees — is typically held the night before the Academy Awards ceremony.

Marty Bauer, co-founder of the United Talent Agency, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. He was 74.

Israeli fashion designer Alber Elbaz, best known for being at the helm of Lanvin from 2001 to 2015, has died at the age of 59, luxury conglomerate Richemont said. The cause of his death was COVID-19, The New York Times reported.