Oscar Awards are also called Academy awards. The 2021 Academy awards were 93rd version. The Academy Awards were presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at Union Station in Los Angeles. The awards honored films released from January 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021. The ceremony was held on April 25, 2021, rather than its usual late-February date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the ceremony, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 23 categories. For the third consecutive year, the ceremony had no official host. Nomadland won three awards at the main ceremony, including Best Picture. Other winners included The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mank, Soul and Sound of Metal with two awards each, and Another Round, Colette, If Anything Happens I Love You, Minari, My Octopus Teacher, Promising Young Woman, Tenet, and Two Distant Strangers with one.
- Best Picture- Nomadland
- Best International Film- “Another Round” (Denmark)
- Best Animated Film- “Soul”
- Best Documentary Film- “My Octopus Teacher”
- Best Director– Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao who won the award for “Nomadland,” became the first woman of color to win Best Director and the second woman overall after Kathryn Bigelow, who won at the 2010 ceremony for directing The Hurt Locker.
- Best Original Screenplay– Emerald Fennell for “Promising Young Woman.”
- Best Actor– At age 83, Best Actor winner Anthony Hopkins was the oldest performer to ever win a competitive acting Oscar. He won it for his acting in “The Father.”
- Best Actress– Best Actress winner Frances McDormand became the seventh person to win a third acting Oscar, the third to win three leading performance Oscars, and the second to win Best Actress three times. McDormand won her third Oscar for “Nomadland,” cementing her reputation as one of the best actresses of her generation.
- Best Producer– As a producer of Nomadland, Frances McDormand also was the first person in history to win Oscars for both acting and producing for the same film.
- Best Supporting Actress– Best Supporting Actress winner Youn Yuh-jung for “Minari” became the first Korean performer and second Asian female to win an acting Oscar after Miyoshi Umeki, who won the same category for her role in 1957’s Sayonara.
- Best Supporting Actor– Daniel Kaluuya (“Judas and the Black Messiah”)
- Best Original Song– “Fight for You” – “Judas and the Black Messiah”
- Acedemy Awards received mostly negative reviews, and it garnered 10.4 million viewers, making it the least-watched Oscar broadcast since 1974’s ceremony, when Nielsen began keeping records of viewership.