Los Angeles: Despite the COVID-19 pandemic gloom, the glamorous Oscar award ceremony took place with full aplomb and show on April 25. The celebrities joined in from two locations in Los Angeles as they celebrated and honoured the brightest stars of the year gone by.
Unlike other years, the Oscars ceremony was held on Monday morning, with no host, no audience, nor face masks for nominees taking part in the 93rd Academy Award.
Chloé Zhao won the Best Director, making her the first woman of colour, and the second woman ever, to win the coveted award. Nomadland also won the Best Picture award, as well as Best Actress for Frances McDormand. Anthony Hopkins, surprisingly, won the Best Actor award for The Father, pipping the favourite late Chadwick Boseman.
The complete list of winners:
Best picture: Nomadland
Best actress: Frances McDormand
Best actor: Anthony Hopkins
Best supporting actress: Yuh-Jung Youn
Best supporting actor: Daniel Kaluuya
Best director: Chloe Zhao
Best original screenplay: Promising Young Woman
Best adapted screenplay: The Father
Best animated feature: Soul
Best documentary feature: My Octopus Teacher
Best international feature: Another Round
Best original song: ‘Fight for You’ from Judas and the Black Messiah
Best original score: Soul
Best cinematography: Mank
Best visual effects: Tenet
Best film editing: Sound of Metal
Best costume design: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best sound: Sound of Metal
Best production design: Mank
Best make-up and hairstyling: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best live-action short: Two Distant Strangers
Best animated short: If Anything Happens I Love You
Best documentary short: Colette
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Tyler Perry
