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"Nomadland" is a unique movie that wins 3 awards on the Night of the Oscar Returns
Chloe Gao is the winner of the Best Director award for her movie "Nomadland".
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"Nomadland" star Frances McDormand won the Best Actress award.
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The 83-year-old Hopkins, who missed the awards ceremony, became the oldest actor to win an Oscar.
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The movie "Nomadland" won the Oscar for best film, and its star, Frances McDormand, won the best actress award on a night that witnessed a return to the glamor of Hollywood after a long year in isolation due to the Corona virus.
British Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor award for his role in "The Father", in which he portrayed the character of a man battling dementia.
The award was widely expected to go to the late Chadwick Bozeman for his role in his latest film, "What Rain's Black Bottom."
Chloe Chaoy, born in China, won the Best Director award for "Nomadic Land", becoming the first Asian woman and the second woman to ever win an Oscar for Best Direction.
The film tells the story of a group of truck drivers in America during the recession, commuting from work to work in their difficult endeavors to make a living.
Yoon Yoh-jung, 73, won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as a feisty grandmother in "Minari," becoming the first South Korean actor or actress to win an Oscar.
The last version that saw a woman win the directorial award was 11 years ago when Kathryn Bigelow won the title for "The Heart Locker" (The Pain Cabinet), which dealt with the Iraq war.
Britain's Daniel Kaluuya won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in "Judas and the Black Messiah" (Judas and the Black Messiah).
Social distancing measures forced the event, which resulted in its transfer to the Union Train Station in downtown Los Angeles.
After strict measures that included tests to detect the Corona virus, the candidates and guests sat to chat, most of them without masks, at the celebration venue, which was more like a club.
The winners were chosen in a secret ballot in which the 9,000 members of the American Academy of Film Sciences and Arts participated.
• Chloe Chowe is the first Asian woman and the second woman to ever win the Oscar for Best Director.
"Oscar" for the oldest actor
British actor Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a patient with dementia in "The Father", adding to his rich credits a new tribute to a career in which he embodied various personalities, including the Pope, President of the United States and a cannibalistic killer.
Hopkins, the 83-year-old who missed the awards ceremony, became the oldest actor to win a competitive Oscar nearly three decades after he won the Best Actor Oscar for his role as a serial killer in the 1992 "Silence of the Lamps".
Hopkins culminated this time in taking the role of an old man drowning in dementia in "The Father" by Frenchman Florian Zeller, who also won an Oscar for best screenplay for the film itself.
British Olivia Coleman assumed the role of his daughter, who becomes unable to recognize her and other members of his family, and he even imagines that his apartment is transforming.
The character he performed was given his name, Anthony, and his date of birth, which is December 31, 1937.
Third "Oscar" by Frances McDormand
Actress Frances McDormand, star of "Nomadland", has joined the global cinema elite by winning a third Oscar during her career for the role of a widow roaming the roads of the United States in an old camping car far from the brilliance of Hollywood.
She is the seventh member of this very narrow 3-Oscar actor club that includes three women - Meryl Streep, Ingrid Bergman, and Katharine Hepburn, who won four awards.
"Words betray me," the 63-year-old actress said upon receiving the award.
The actress won her first Oscar in her career in 1997 for the role of a pregnant policeman in "Fargo" and repeated the ball in 2018 for the role of a mother desperately seeking justice after the rape and murder of her daughter in "Three Billboard Outside Abing Missouri".
Frances McDormand was born in 1957 in Illinois and adopted the same year by a Canadian-born couple, a pastor and a nurse.
Although she has participated in about forty films, the actress often jokes that she does not consider herself a movie star.
Actors and Awards
Best Film - “Nomadland”.
Best Director - Chloe Gao, for "Nomadland".
Best Actor - Anthony Hopkins in "The Father".
Best Actress - Frances McDormand in Nomadland.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Daniel Kaluuya in "Judas and the Black Messaya".
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Yoo Jong Yun in "Minari".
Best Foreign Language Film - “Anather Round” (Denmark).
■ Best Animated Film - “Soul”.
■ Best Documentary Film - “My Octopus Teacher”.
Best Original Screenplay - "Promising Young Woman".
Best Adapted Screenplay - "The Father"
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