The Academy Award producers weren’t joking around when they said Zooming into the ceremony wouldn’t be allowed.
26.04.2021 - 17:34 / etcanada.com
An award season like no other has finally come to a close with the 93rd Academy Awards rolling up the virtual red carpet on a year of movie-watching at home. Today, a new crop of winners — Daniel Kaluuya, Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand, Yuh-jung Youn — are basking in Oscar’s glow, getting ready to tackle their first post-win projects.
Here’s a look at what the newly minted Oscar winners are up to next.
Best Actor – Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins’ absent win for “The Father” may have ended
The Academy Award producers weren’t joking around when they said Zooming into the ceremony wouldn’t be allowed.
2021 Oscars are in the books, but the movies they recognized are still available for your viewing pleasure.
Nomadland has swept the Oscars with wins for its director Chloe Zhao and its lead Frances McDormand as well as best film - with British stars Daniel Kaluuya and Emerald Fennell also among the winners. Zhao, who was born in China, is the first woman from an ethnically diverse background to win the Academy Award for directing, and the second woman in history, after Kathryn Bigelow's triumph 11 years ago for The Hurt Locker.
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
The 93rd Academy Awards were held on April 25, 2021. After facing a tough year worldwide thanks to the pandemic, the awards ceremony honoured the work of films that still released and entertained audiences in these trying times.
Do not go gentle into that good night' at the grave of his own father Richard Hopkins in Wales. The Silence of the Lambs star, who normally resides in Malibu, returned to Wales before the Bafta awards ceremony earlier this month and won the best actor award at that ceremony too.
Minari. British star Daniel Kaluuya, who was previously Oscar-nominated for his role in 2017's Get Out, won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Black Panther chair Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah.
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.
Many film fans were left disappointed on Sunday night as the late Chadwick Boseman was snubbed for the Best Actor gong at The Oscars despite being the hot favourite to pick up the award posthumously. Chadwick, who tragically passed away at the age of 43 after a battle with colon cancer in August 2020, was nominated for the award for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Gallery: And the award goes too… 10 predictions for the 2021 Academy Awards (BANG Showbiz)Victory for the actress - who previously won the prize in 2018 for 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' and in 1997 for 'Fargo' - means she now joins a list of five other performers who have won five Oscars for acting, alongside Ingrid Bergman, Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jack Nicholson, and Meryl Streep. Only Katherine Hepburn, with four, has won more Best Actress prizes.
The 93rd Academy Awards were held on April 25, 2021, and as always, it was a star-studded evening. Despite going through several changes this year owing to the pandemic, the prestigious ceremony was held with equal fervour as they celebrated the best of cinema.
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.
Chloé Zhao, becoming the first woman of colour to be named best director and only the second woman ever. The film, starring Frances McDormand as a woman living out of her van and interacting with real-life nomads, took home the top trophy near the end of a delayed night and a delayed season amid the pandemic.
Chadwick Boseman was predicted to win Best Actor posthumously for his role as Levee Green in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”, but surprisingly he lost to Anthony Hopkins in “The Father”.
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.
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.