Despite the logistical challenges, there were no notable technical malfunctions. Lastly, the producers needed to integrate live camera feeds from more than 20 locations to comply with coronavirus safety restrictions. “And one day, very, very soon, take everyone you know into a theater, shoulder to shoulder in that dark space and watch every film that was represented here tonight.”
McDormand tried to help their cause with her acceptance speech: “Please watch our movie on the largest screen possible,” she said.
The producing team, which included the Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic”), also hope to use the telecast to jump-start theatergoing, no small task when most of the world has been out of the box office habit for more than a year. First and foremost, they were asked to design a show that prevented the TV ratings from plunging to an alarming low - while celebrating movies that, for the most part, have not connected widely with audiences. Hollywood wanted the producers of the telecast to pull off an almost-impossible hat trick. “Maybe you’ve been pulling some strings somewhere,” Vinterberg said, providing a notable moment of emotion. The Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg dedicated “Another Round” to his daughter, Ida, who was killed in a car crash in 2019. “Another Round,” about middle-age men who decide to get drunk daily, won the Academy Award for international feature film (previously referred to as foreign-language film). She then unleashed an unbridled wolf howl.Ĭhristopher Hampton and Florian Zeller won the adapted screenplay prize for “The Father,” about the ravages of dementia.
“We give this one to our wolf,” McDormand said as she held the best picture statuette, an apparent reference to Michael Wolf Snyder, a “Nomadland” sound mixer who took his own life in March. “Nomadland” gave Searchlight Pictures its fourth best-picture prize in eight years, an astounding run unrivaled by any other specialty film company. It was a sleepy event until the final minutes, when academy voters served up a dramatic twist ending: Anthony Hopkins, 83, won the best actor Oscar for “ The Father,” beating out the late Chadwick Boseman (“ Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”), who was the runaway favorite going into the night, having been lauded by film organizations and critics’ groups for months.įrances McDormand was named best actress for “Nomadland,” the third time she has won the award. LOS ANGELES - “ Nomadland,” Chloé Zhao’s meditation on grief and the damaged American dream, won Academy Awards for best picture, director and actress at Sunday night’s surreal ceremony, a stage show broadcast on television about films mostly distributed on the internet.
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