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Academy Awards 2021: Veteran Actor Anthony Hopkins Wins The Best Actor Award

Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color to win the Oscar award. Zhao won the prestigious award for the best director for Western drama 'Nomadland

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Ishita Chakraborty
Ishita Chakraborty
Editor-in-Chief at Transcontinental Times, Computer Science Graduate, PG diploma in Journalism and Mass communication. Ishita is a youth activist for PETA India, President of Girlup IWO, and a linguaphile. She covers fashion and lifestyle, politics, UN initiatives, sports, and diversity.

UNITED STATES: This year’s Academy Awards were held uniquely as the attendees observed social distancing while going maskless. The awards were held at both the Dolby Theatre and Union Station. All nominees and guests attending the prestigious ceremony had undergone a minimum of two COVID-19 tests and were not required to wear a face mask while the cameras were rolling.

The ceremony was delayed due to the pandemic and took place two months after the originally planned date. The 93rd Academy Awards began with American actress-director Regina King grabbing an Oscar statue in Los Angeles and walking it inside while credits rolled featuring the show’s presenters. Just like 2020, there was no host in this year’s award ceremony. 

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Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color to win the Academy Award. Zhao won the prestigious award for the best director for Western drama ‘Nomadland’. Veteran actor Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor award for his exceptional performance in ‘The Father’. This is Hopkins’ second Academy Award. He won his first Oscar for the 1991 thriller ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. 

Actress-producer Frances McDormand bagged the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in ‘Nomadland’. McDormand is a recipient of three Oscar awards in total. She has previously won the golden statuette for ‘Fargo’ and ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ in 1997 and 2018 respectively. Korean actress Yuh-Jung Youn won the award for the Best Actress in a Supporting role for ‘Minari’. On the other hand, Daniel Kaluuya won the Academy Award for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’.

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Maintaining its tradition like every year, The Academy Awards in the Memoriam section paid tributes to the filmmakers and artists who passed away in 2020. Along with legendary actors like Sean Connery and Ian Holmes, versatile Indian actor Irrfan Khan was also remembered.

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Previously, Indian actress Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas had unveiled the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards on March 15. 

List of winners of the 93rd Academy Awards 2021:

Best Picture

Nomadland

Best Actor

Anthony Hopkins – The Father

Best Actress

Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Best Director

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Yuh-Jung Youn – Minnari

Best Costume Design

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Production Design

Mank

Best Cinematography

Mank

Best Animated Feature Film

Soul

Best Animated Short Film

If Anything Happens I Love You

Best Live-Action Short Film

Two Distant Strangers

Best Documentary Short Subject

Colette

Best Documentary Feature

My Octopus Teacher

Best Sound

Sound of Metal

Best Visual Effects

Tenet

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Father

Best Original Screenplay

Promising Young Woman

Best Original Score

Soul

Best Original Song

Fight for You

Best Film Editing

Sound of Metal

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  • Ishita Chakraborty

    Editor-in-Chief at Transcontinental Times, Computer Science Graduate, PG diploma in Journalism and Mass communication. Ishita is a youth activist for PETA India, President of Girlup IWO, and a linguaphile. She covers fashion and lifestyle, politics, UN initiatives, sports, and diversity.

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