Oscars 2021 Highlights: Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand win top honours

Fans pointed out that, unlike every year, when the Best Picture award is the last award of the evening, this time, the producers rearranged the show to announce Best Actor as the last category. This was seen as a build-up to honour Boseman posthumously, who was nominated for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. His family was also invited to the ceremony and this further got the fans’ expectations up. Boseman passed away in August 2020 due to cancer at the age of 43. READ MORE

Director Chloé Zhao shares the meaning behind Frances McDormand's howl during her #Oscars speech after "Nomadland" won best picture. McDormand also won for best actress. pic.twitter.com/q1Hhtf8JWF

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Changing the tradition, this year the last award for the evening was Best Actor unlike previous years when the ceremony always ended with the Best Picture award.

Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mank, Soul and Sound of Metal all won two Academy Awards each.

At the 93rd Academy Awards, Nomadland walked away with three major awards - Best Picture, Best Director for Chloe Zhao and Best Actress for Frances McDormand.

Joaquin Phoenix ended the night as he announced the Best Actor award.

Anthony Hopkins wins Best Actor for The Father. Riz Ahmed, Chadwick Boseman, Gary Oldman and Steven Yeun were the other nominees.

Frances McDormand wins Best Actress for her role as Fern in Nomadland. Vanessa Kirby, Viola Davis, Andra Day, Carey Mulligan were among the nominees.

Chloe Zhao directed Nomadland wins Best Picture Oscar. The film starred Frances McDormand in the lead role. Zhao is helming Marvel's The Eternals next.

The nominations for Best Picture are being announced. Who will take home the Oscar this year?

“To Chairman Fred Hampton, what a man. How blessed we are that we lived in a lifetime where he existed,” Kaluuya said, clutching his trophy. “He was on this Earth for 21 years and he found a way to feed kids breakfast, educate kids, get free medical care against all odds.” READ MORE

"Fight for You" from Judas and the Black Messiah wins Best Original Song at the 93rd Academy Awards. The award has been given to D'Mile and H.E.R. for music and, H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas for lyric.

Soul wins the Oscar for Best Original Score. The other nominees were - Mank, Minari, News of the World and Da 5 Bloods.

Tyler Perry wins Humanitarian Award at the Oscars 2021. Viola Davis presents the award.

Sound of Metal's Mikkel E.G. Nielsen wins Best Film Editing at the 93rd Academy Awards. The other films nominated in this category were - The Father, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Promising Young Woman, Nomadland.

Erik Messerschmidt wins Best Cinematography for Mank. This is the second award for David Fincher's film.

Mank wins its first Oscar for Best Production Design. Donald Graham Burt wins for Production Design and Jan Pascaledouble-dagger wins for Set Decoration.

Youn Yuh-jung wins Best Supporting Actress for Minari. The other nominees were - Amanda Seyfried for Mank, Maria Bakalova for Borat Subsequent MovieFilm, Olivia Colman for The Father and Glenn Close for Hillbilly Elegy.

Tenet wins the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Love and Monsters, The Midnight Sky, Mulan and The One and Only Ivan were the other nominees.

My Octopus Teacher wins Best Documentary Feature. The other nominees were - Collective, Crip Camp, The Mole Agent, Time.

Colette wins Best Documentary Short Subject. The other nominees were - A Concerto is a Conversation, Do Not Split, Hunger Ward, A Love Song For Latasha.

Soul wins Best Animated Feature Film. The other nominees were - Onward, Over the Moon, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Wolfwalkers. 

If Anything Happens I Love You wins Best Animated Short Film. The other nominees were - Burrow, Opera, Genius Loci and Yes-People. Reese Witherspoon presented this award.

The Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film goes to Two Distant Strangers – Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe. The other nominees were - Feeling Through – Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski, The Letter Room – Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan, The Present – Ossama Bawardi and Farah Nabulsi, White Eye – Shira Hochman and Tomer Shushan.

Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Philip Bladh, Carlos Cortés and Michelle Couttolenc win Best Sound award for Sound of Metal. The film's actor Riz Ahmed presented the award.

Chloe Zhao wins the Best Director award for Nomadland. She is the second woman to win in the category in the Academy's 93 years of giving awards. 

Bryan Cranston announces the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and presents it to the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom wins its second Oscar for the night as Ann Roth wins the award for Best Costume Design. The other nominees were - Emma. – Alexandra Byrne, Mank – Trish Summerville, Mulan – Bina Daigeler, Pinocchio – Massimo Cantini Parrini.

Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson win the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. The other nominees were -  Emma. – Laura Allen, Marese Langan and Claudia Stolze, Hillbilly Elegy – Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash and Matthew W. Mungle, Mank – Colleen LaBaff, Kimberley Spiteri and Gigi Williams, Pinocchio – Dalia Colli, Mark Coulier and Francesco Pegoretti.

The winner of Best Supporting Actor is - Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah. The other nominations in the category were - Sacha Baron Cohen for The Trial of the Chicago 7, Leslie Odom Jr. for One Night in Miami, Paul Raci in Sound of Metal and Lakeith Stanfield for Judas and the Black Messiah.

Another Round (Denmark) in Danish, directed by Thomas Vinterberg, wins Best International Feature Film. The film stars Mads Mikkelsen in the lead role.

Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller from The Father wins the Best Adapted Screenplay.

Emerald Fennell wins the Best Original Screenplay for Promising Young Woman at the 93rd Academy Awards. She is also the director of the film.

Regina King takes the stage as Academy Awards begin. The ceremony is being conducted in a socially distanced manner, and is also maskless.

The nominations for Best Animated Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards are  - Onward, Over the Moon, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Soul, Wolfwalkers.

The nominations for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards are - Another Round, Better Days, Collective, The Man Who Sold His Skin, Quo Vadis, Aida?.

The nominations for Best Supporting Actor at the 93rd Academy Awards are - Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah, Sacha Baron Cohen for The Trial of the Chicago 7, Leslie Odom Jr. for One Night in Miami, Paul Raci in Sound of Metal and Lakeith Stanfield for Judas and the Black Messiah.

We have five talented actresses vying for the Oscar in the Best Supporting Actress category at the 93rd Academy Awards — Yuh-Jung Youn for Minari, Amanda Seyfried for Mank, Maria Bakalova for Borat Subsequent MovieFilm, Olivia Colman for The Father and Glenn Close for Hillbilly Elegy.

This year, the nominations for Best Director are – David Fincher for Mank, Lee Isaac Chug for Minari, Chloe Zhao for Nomadland, Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman and Thomas Vinterberg for Another Round.

This year, the nominations for the Best Actor award at the 93rd Academy Awards are – Riz Ahmed for Sound of Metal, Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Steven Yeun for Minari, Anthony Hopkins for The Father and Gary Oldman for Mank.

This year, the nominations for the Best Actress award are – Vanessa Kirby for Pieces of a Woman, Frances McDormand for Nomadland, Carey Mulligan for Promising Young Woman, Viola Davis for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Andra Day for The United States vs. Billie Holiday.

The nominations for the Best Film at the 93rd Academy Awards are - Nomadland, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Mank, MInari, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Father.

The ceremony will broadcast as it happens in Los Angeles on both Star Movies and Star World channels. Although in the US the event will take place on Sunday night, in India the timing is Monday, 5:30 am to 8:30 am. Star Movies and Star World will also repeat telecast the ceremony at 8:30 pm on Monday.