Oscars of cinema: the triumph of Nomadland and Anthony Hopkins, the tribute to the octopus
The 2021 Oscars and the triumph of the film Nomadland, by Chloé Zhao, played by Frances McDormand who won the third Oscar of her career, Los Angeles, April 25, 2021. AP - Chris Pizzello
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The film was heralded as the big favorite and as expected, it won the biggest prizes at the Academy Awards in cinema.
Nomadland made a triumph and its actress, Frances Mc Dormand pleaded for films on the big screen and the return of the public to the cinema.
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Please watch our film on the biggest screen possible.
And one day, very very soon, take everyone you know to the movies,
”said Frances McDormand, Oscar winner for her role in
Nomadland
(of which she is also the producer), also
named
best feature film.
A film that she carries on her shoulders, most of the other actors in this quasi-documentary roadmovie not being professional actors.
And its director Chloé Zhao, of Chinese origin, becomes the first non-white filmmaker to win the award for best director.
She had already been
rewarded in Venice
by receiving the Golden Lion last year.
Frances McDormand in the film “Nomadland”, by Chloé Zhao, in the running for the 2020 Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.
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Among men, the Briton Anthony Hopkins won the statuette for best actor for his role as an old man sinking into dementia in
The Father
, the first feature film by French playwright Florian Zeller, also awarded the Oscar for best adapted screenplay.
Dane Thomas Vinterberg, director of
Drunk
, received the Oscar for best foreign film for his bittersweet comedy, already awarded in several festivals and competitions such as the Césars in 2021.
And in the Best Documentary category, it was a strange story of friendship that was rewarded, that of a diver and an octopus.
The wisdom of the octopus
had the favor of the predictions after having already won the Bafta for best documentary, reports our correspondent in Los Angeles Eric Pialat, but the South African director Pippa Ehrlich still found it difficult to contain her emotion while coming to seek his statuette.
More diversity
Exceptionally, due to the Covid pandemic, the Oscars ceremony, staged by director Steven Soderbergh, was held in a train station in historic downtown Los Angeles.
Only those named were invited to walk the red carpet.
And it should also be noted that after years of controversy over the composition of the Academy of Oscars, deemed too white and too masculine to represent the whole of society, two actors of color were awarded: the Briton Daniel Kaluuya, 32 years, for
Judas and the Black Messiah
, and the South Korean septuagenarian Youn Yuh-jung for Minari.
She is the first Korean and the second Asian woman to win an Oscar since 1957, reports our correspondent in Seoul, Nicolas Rocca.
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The prize list
Best Film: "Nomadland"
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, "Nomadland"
Best Actress: Frances McDormand,
Nomadland
Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins,
The Father
Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-Jung,
Minari
Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya,
Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Foreign Film: Drunk (Denmark)
Best Animated Feature:
Soul
Best Documentary:
The Wisdom of the Octopus
Best Original Screenplay:
Promising Young Woman
- Emerald Fennell
Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Father
- Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
.
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