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      'Soul' Nabs Oscar, Continuing Pixar's Awards Season Dominance

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      “Soul,” the Pixar story of an aspiring jazz musician hovering between life and death, was named best animated feature, a win that was expected even though “Wolfwalkers,” a Celtic fantasy from the Irish studio Cartoon Saloon, had its partisans.“Soul,” directed by Pete Docter, had racked up wins all season long, continuing Pixar’s dominance at awards time. This is the studio’s 11th Oscar for best animated feature since the category was introduced in 2002.The movie is notable for a number of reasons: It’s Pixar’s first movie with a Black protagonist (the pianist and music teacher Joe, voiced by Jamie Foxx), and the creative team includes the company’s first Black co-director, Kemp Powers.Docter, accepting the Oscar, thanked music and art teachers, including his parents, and said: “You make the world a better place.”He added, “My wish for all of us tonight is that we could follow the example of jazz musicians: that wherever we are, whatever we have, we turn it into something beautiful.” More

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      Oscars 2021: 'Nomadland' Wins Big, Anthony Hopkins' Surprise Win Rounds Out Full Winner List

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      ‘Nomadland’ is hailed as Best Picture with its star Frances McDormand being named Best Actress, while ‘The Father’ star Hopkins surprisingly edges out the likes of Chadwick Boseman and Gary Oldman.

      Apr 26, 2021

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      The 93rd annual Academy Awards has concluded with “Nomadland” coming out as the biggest winner with three wins. The movie nabbed the coveted prize of Best Picture, winning over “The Father”, “Judas and the Black Messiah”, “Mank”, “Minari”, “Promising Young Woman”, “Sound of Metal” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7”.

      Chloe Zhao, who won the Best Director prize earlier in the night for helming the movie, thanked real-life nomads across America for teaching the crew the “power of resilience and hope and remining us what true kindness looks like.”

      The movie also helped its star Frances McDormand score Best Actress award, which was also vied by Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”), Viola Davis (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”), Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”) and Vanessa Kirby (“Pieces of a Woman”). It’s the third Oscar for Best Actress for McDormand after previously winning for 1996’s “Fargo” and 2017’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”.

      Capping off the Sunday, April 25 ceremony was the Best Actor award, which surprisingly went to Anthony Hopkins for his role in “The Father”. It’s a rather upset win as Chadwick Boseman was expected to win the award posthumously for his role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”.

      Hopkins wasn’t present at the show, so Joaquin Phoenix, who introduced the category, accepted it on his behalf. “The Father” also won Best Adapted Screenplay for the script written by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller, based on the play by Zeller.

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      “Ma Rainey’s”, however, didn’t come home empty handed as it previously won Best Costume Design for Ann Roth and Best Make-Up and Hairstyling for Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson.

      Also bagging two prizes each were “Sound of Metal”, “Soul” and “Judas and the Black Messiah”. “Sound of Metal” picked up the gongs for Best Film Editing and Best Sound, “Soul” was named Best Animated Feature Film in addition to winning Best Original Score, and “Judas and the Black Messiah” nabbed Best Supporting Actor for Daniel Kaluuya as well as Best Original Song for “Fight for You”, which is performed by H.E.R..

      “Mank”, which received the most nominations with 10, scored one Oscar in Production Design category. Yuh-Jung Youn set Oscar history as the first Korean actress to win Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Minari”.

      “Another Round” was named Best International Feature Film, while Tyler Perry and Motion Picture & Television Fund were honored with Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for their separate works.

      Full Winners of 2021 Academy Awards:

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      'Nomadland' Takes Home Oscar for Best Picture

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      With a howl from its lead actress, “Nomadland,” a drama about itinerant workers in the American West, was named best picture. The story of widow, played by Frances McDormand, who hits the open road amid the recession in the American West, the movie had been sweeping up honors all awards season. In her speech accepting best picture, the star, who was also named best actress, gave a howl, but first urged audiences to “please watch our movie on the largest screen possible, 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’s represented here tonight.”The film was directed by the Chinese-born filmmaker Chloé Zhao, who earlier in the evening was named best director. It is only the second movie from a female director to take Hollywood’s top trophy (the first was Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” in 2010). “Nomadland” is also the first best-picture winner directed by a woman of color. Accepting the award, Zhao thanked “all the people we met on the road,” and added, “Thank you for teaching us the power of resilience and hope and for reminding us what true kindness looks like.” More

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      Oscars 2021: Tyler Perry Delivers Inspiring Speech About Refusing to Hate and Healing

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      Perry takes the podium after being presented with Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, while ‘Sound of Metal’, ‘Soul’ and ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ add a second win each.

      Apr 26, 2021

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      Tyler Perry took time at the 93rd annual Academy Awards to advocate for peace. Amid the rising violence against Asians and the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests across the nation, the filmmaker delivered an inspiring speech about refusing to hate and healing while accepting Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his generosity toward those often overlooked and his steadfast commitment to social justice.

      He opened his message by sharing an anecdote about giving a homeless woman a pair of shoes. “In that moment I recall her saying to me, ‘I thought you would hate me for asking,’ ” he recalled. “And I’m like, ‘How can I hate you, when I used to be you? How can I hate you when I had a mother who grew up in Jim Crow Louisiana?’ ” Perry said this mother “taught me to refuse hate.”

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      The owner of Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta continued, “I refuse to hate on someone because they are Mexican or because they are black or white or LGBTQ. I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer. I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian. i would hope that we will all refuse hate.”

      He later added on how people should react to diversity, “No matter what’s around the wall, stand in the middle, ’cause that’s where healing happens, that’s where conversation happens, that’s where change happens.”

      Perry’s speech aside, the Academy Awards has also presented more awards in competitive categories, with “Sound of Metal”, “Soul” and “Judas and the Black Messiah” adding a second Oscar win each. “Sound of Metal” won Best Film Editing for Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, “Soul” nabbed Best Original Score for Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste, while “Judas and the Black Messiah” picked up Best Original Song for the song “Fight For You”, which is performed by H.E.R..

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      Oscars 2021: Yuh-Jung Youn Wins Best Supporting Actress, 'Soul' Is Best Animated Feature

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      While the ‘Minari’ star has become the first Korean actress to win an Oscar, ‘Tenet’ has earned its first prize at the 93rd Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects.

      Apr 26, 2021

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      More awards have been presented at the 93rd annual Academy Awards, with Yuh-Jung Youn among one of them who have become victorious at the Sunday, April 25 ceremony. The veteran South Korean actress nabbed Best Supporting Actress award for her role in “Minari”.

      While Youn has set another Oscar history by becoming the first Korean actress to win an Oscar, her win was rather expected. She was a favorite to win in the category after earning prizes at other award shows, including the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards, for the same role.

      The 73-year-old had a fan-girling moment when accepting the award from Brad Pitt. “Mr Pitt, finally. Nice to meet you. Where were you while we were filming? I’m very honored to meet you!” she said, before thanking “Minari” cast and crew, including director Lee Isaac Chung, and her fellow nominees, particularly Glenn Close.

      Prior to Youn’s win, “Tenet” grabbed the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. “Soul” was named Best Animated Feature, edging out “Onward”, “Over the Moon”, “Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon” and “Wolfwalkers”.

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      Best Animated Short Film went to “If Anything Happens I Love You”, while “My Octopus Teacher” won Best Documentary Feature. Winning Best Documentary Short Subject was “Colette”, which is a about a former member of the French Resistance who goes back to Germany.

      In his speech, director Anthony Giacchino mentioned that the movie’s Oscar win coincided with the real-life Collete’s birthday. “Today’s Colette’s birthday. She was born just 22 days before the very first Oscars in 1929,” he said. “So I imagine it must have been a very a crowd about this big, right?”

      He continued, “When she – when we got nominated, she told us that – she reminded us that the power of documentary film making ensured that her brother Jean Pierre was, as she put it, no longer lost in the night and fog of the Nazi concentration camp system.”

      Later at the currently ongoing show, “Mank” scored two consecutive wins with Production Design Best for Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale, as well as Best Cinematography for Erik Messerschmidt.

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      Oscars 2021: Chloe Zhao and 'Ma Rainey's' Makeup and Hairstyling Team Score Historic Wins

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      The ‘Nomadland’ helmer is the first Asian woman to win the Best Director prize, while Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson become the first black women to win the Oscar for makeup and hairstyling.

      Apr 26, 2021

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      Histories have been made at the 93rd annual Academy Awards which is currently underway. Chloe Zhao, who was nominated alongside Thomas Vinterberg (“Another Round”), David Fincher (“Mank”), Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”) and Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”), won the Oscar for Best Director for “Nomadland”.

      Zhao is the second only woman to win the Oscar in the category after Kathryn Bigelow won the prize in 2009 for “The Hurt Locker”. She is also the first Asian woman in the Oscar history to win the Best Director prize.

      In her speech, she talked about the inherent good in people. “I have always found goodness in the people I met, everywhere I went in the world,” she said. “So this is for anyone who had the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves, and to hold on to the goodness in each other no matter how difficult it is to do that. And this is for you, you inspire me to keep going. Thank you inspire me to keep going. Thank you.”

      Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson landed another historic win as they have become the first black women to win the Oscar for makeup and hairstyling for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”. Neal delivered a powerful message in her speech. “I can picture black and Latino and Indigenous trans women, and I know that one day it won’t be unusual or groundbreaking, it will just be normal,” she said.

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      Bringing the second win for “Ma Rainey’s” that night, Ann Roth scored the Oscar for Best Costume Design. At 89 years old, she has become the oldest woman to ever win an Oscar, but she wasn’t present in person to accept the award.

      “Sound of Metal” aptly took home the Oscar for Achievement in Sound, thanks to the works of Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortes and Phillip Bladh. The award was presented by Riz Ahmed, who starred in the movie.

      Live-Action Short Film award went to “Two Distant Strangers”, directed by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe. Free highlighted police violence on black people in his speech, urging people not to be indifferent to others’ pain. “So I ask you not to be indifferent, don’t be indifferent to our pain,” he said.

      At another portion of the night, the Motion Picture Television Fund’s CEO Bob Beacher accepted Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award on behalf of the MPTF for an outstanding contribution to humanitarian causes.

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      'Black Bear' Director Apologetic for Putting Aubrey Plaza Through 'Emotional Torture' on Set

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      Lawrence Michael Levine felt like he pushed his cast members too hard during the filming of his passion project, a dark comedy movie starring Aubrey Plaza.

      Apr 26, 2021

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      Writer/director Lawrence Michael Levine worried he was putting Aubrey Plaza “through some emotional torture” for his labour of love movie, “Black Bear”.

      In the dark comedy, the “Parks and Recreation” star is filmmaker Allison, whose stay at a secluded lake house doesn’t quite go according to plan – and Levine is thrilled with his leading lady’s “riveting” performance, even though he worried about pushing her too hard.

      He told HeyUGuys, “Really, one of the biggest thrills of my life – and I imagine other dramatic writers as well – is seeing their work performed at the highest level.”

      “So, it’s actually a thrill. It was fun and exciting. It was a little hard because at times I felt like I was putting people – and (Plaza) in particular – through some emotional torture, which was kind of odd.”

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      “But you just need to remind yourself, you’re making a movie and that’s the job she signed up for. It’s your job to help her get where she needs to be, and her performance comes off. But it was exciting, it was riveting…”

      Other challenges included the limited shoot time allotted for the movie, which also stars “Catch-22” standout Christopher Abbott and “True Detective” ‘s Sarah Gadon, and the nighttime setting required for many of the scenes.

      Levine explained, “I was so busy during the shoot and so anxious – it was a really difficult shoot, we didn’t have a lot of time.”

      “The original schedule was 18 (days), and then just from b**ching and moaning, I got another two.”

      “I think it ended up being 20 days, and they were not long days either because everything’s at night… We had eight hours of darkness and that’s all the time we had to shoot.”

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      Oscars 2021: Emerald Fennell and Daniel Kaluuya Among Early Winners

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      The ‘Promising Young Woman’ director/screenwriter picks up Best Original Screenplay while the ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ actor takes home Best Supporting Actor.

      Apr 26, 2021

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      The 93rd annual Academy Awards officially kicked off following an intimate red carpet and a pre-show which showcased the Best Original Song nominees.

      The first winner of the night was “Promising Young Woman”. Emerald Fennell won Best Original Screenplay for her script, beating the scribes from “Judas and the Black Messiah”, “Minari”, “Sound of Metal”, and “The Trial of the Chicago 7”.

      The second prize went to “The Father” screenwriters for Best Adapted Screenplay. The big screen adaptation of 2012 play called “Le Pere” beat “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”, “Nomadland”, “One Night in Miami…”, and “The White Tiger”.

      Next, “Another Round” from Denmark took home the title of Best International Feature Film. It won the prize following a stiff competition with “Better Days” (Hong Kong), “Collective” (Romania), “The Man Who Sold His Skin” (Tunisia), and “Quo Vadis, Aida?” (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

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      Afterwards, Daniel Kaluuya was announced as the winner of Best Supporting Actor for his onscreen performance in “Judas and the Black Messiah”. In his acceptance speech, he gave his co-star and fellow nominee LaKeith Stanfield a shout-out.

      He additionally paid tribute to Fred Hampton, the slain victim he portrayed in the true-story movie, “What a man. What a man. How blessed we are we lived in a lifetime where he existed.”

      Meanwhile, Regina King, whose directorial debut “One Night in Miami” received three nominations, started the star-studded event with a nod to Derek Chauvin verdict over George Floyd’s death. “I have to be honest, if things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis, I might have traded my heels for marching boots,” she said.

      The event was maskless but the guests were seated in socially distanced booths. The “Watchmen” actress assured audience that everyone was tested and many were vaccinated, but some guests were still uncomfortable and preferred to keep their masks. Those covering their faces included Zendaya Coleman and Frances McDormand.

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