2021 Oscar winners: Here’s who won at the Academy Awards

The 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony started and ended on a few unusual notes, for very completely different causes. Within the opening sequence, kickoff presenter and One Evening In Miami director Regina King strode by Los Angeles’ Union Station as a collection of trendy, movie-style opening credit handed by, as a manner of pretending your entire Oscars ceremony was one huge movie with a completely superb solid. For only a second, the ceremony felt daring and showy, just like the sort of bold, heads-high undertaking we haven’t seen a lot of in a yr of Zoom-based awards ceremonies and postponed or cancelled occasions.

After which King walked onto the Oscar awards set, with its small stage and sparsely populated room, its socially distanced viewers tables and bare-minimum human presence, and the bubble popped. Out of the blue, we have been proper again to the identical sort of nervous, let’s-put-a-brave-face-on-this smile that’s dominated reside public occasions for the previous yr.

Like each business gathering throughout COVID-19, the 2021 Oscars ceremony confronted a major problem. It’s coming after a yr of pandemic the place giant assemblies have been steadily banned or given important adverse press. Different awards ceremonies discovered numerous options that by no means had the glamour or intimacy the Oscars aspire to — as an illustration, the Golden Globes ceremony put the hosts on reverse coasts and made a joke out of their social distance and the small viewers they performed to.

Academy Awards producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh tried to go in a distinct path with the “That is all a star-studded movie” motif, which King carried out by declaring that the night can be “an Oscars film with a solid of over 200 nominees.” However she additionally reassured the viewers that whereas presenters and recipients have been maskless, they have been “following all the rigorous protocols that bought us again to work,” with masks changed behind the scenes, and social distancing revered. With most of the recipients giving their speeches from distant areas, and the viewers break up between Union Station and a sparsely populated Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, the ceremony felt small — precisely the other of what the Academy usually needs.

There have been a handful of highlights, together with Daniel Kaluuya, in his acceptance speech for the Greatest Supporting Actor award, proudly explaining how he got here to be on that stage: “My mother met my dad, they’d intercourse, I’m right here. It’s superb. I’m so glad to be alive,” he exulted. It was one of many largest laughs of the evening — not only for the remark itself, however for the footage of his mom and sister’s reside incredulity.

One other minor spotlight: Harrison Ford, presenting the award for Greatest Movie Modifying, dryly studying a handful of studio enhancing notes from his 1982 movie Blade Runner, together with “Why do we’d like the third reduce to the eggs?” and “As much as Zora’s dying, the film is lethal boring. This film will get worse each screening.”

However for essentially the most half, the 93rd Academy Awards have been low-key, with comparatively few speeches veering into political territory or producing memorable moments. Social-media reactions appeared extra muted than traditional throughout the ceremony, other than a wave of disbelief throughout the conventional “In Memorium” section, which sped by its listing of the yr’s departed Hollywood elite with a briskness that felt downright disrespectful.

However two moments notably stand out from the night, for fully reverse causes. Glenn Shut stole the present throughout the ceremony’s one unquestionable little bit of padding, an Oscars-music trivia sport that noticed Questlove, as DJ, taking part in clips of songs, whereas pre-show host Lil Rel Howery confronted viewers members, asking if these songs have been nominees, winners, or neither. Requested about Expertise Limitless’s tune “Da Butt,” Shut not solely stated she knew the tune, she bought up and did the dance.

After which there was the ceremony’s unusual last second. Opposite to custom, the producers scheduled the Greatest Image award — which as anticipated, went to Nomadland — forward of the Greatest Actress and Greatest Actor classes, virtually actually assuming the late Chadwick Boseman would win Greatest Actor posthumously, and the ceremony may exit on an emotional be aware. As an alternative, the trophy went to Anthony Hopkins for The Father — and Hopkins wasn’t accessible for a speech, so presenter Joaquin Phoenix simply stated the Academy would settle for it on his behalf, and the evening thudded to a flat, unsatisfying finish. It’s been an odd yr for motion pictures, with out theatrical blockbusters and with solely muted hype for many of the movies that debuted on streaming providers as an alternative. However this felt like essentially the most 2021 ending doable: a transparent setup, an odd whiff, and a way of a diminished, subdued crowd quickly deserting their near-empty viewing venues.

Listed below are all the winners from the 93rd annual Academy Awards:

Greatest Unique Screenplay

Winner: Emerald Fennell, Promising Younger Girl
Different nominees: Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, Sound of Metallic, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Greatest Tailored Screenplay

Winner: Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller, The Father
Different nominees: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Nomadland, One Evening in Miami, The White Tiger

Greatest Worldwide Characteristic

Winner: One other Spherical
Different nominees: Higher Days; Collective; The Man Who Bought His Pores and skin; Quo Vadis, Aidia?

Photograph: Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S. through Getty Pictures

Greatest Supporting Actor

Winner: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Different nominees: Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7; Leslie Odom, Jr., One Evening in Miami; Paul Raci, Sound of Metallic; Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah

Greatest Make-up and Hairstyling

Winner: Jamika Wilson, Mia Neal, Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Ma Rainey’s Black Backside
Different nominees: Emma., Hillbilly Elegy, Mank, Pinocchio

Greatest Costume Design

Winner: Anne Roth, Ma Rainey’s Black Backside
Different nominees: Emma., Mank, Mulan, Pinocchio

Greatest Director

Winner: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Different nominees: Thomas Vinterberg, One other Spherical, David Fincher, Mank, Lee Isaac Chung, Minari, Emerald Fennell, Promising Younger Girl

Greatest Sound

Winner: Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Philip Bladh, Carlos Cortés and Michelle Couttolenc, Sound of Metallic
Different nominees: Greyhound, Mank, Information of the World, Soul

Greatest Reside Motion Brief Movie

Winner: Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, Two Distant Strangers
Different nominees: The Letter Room, The Current, Feeling Via, White Eye

Greatest Animated Brief Movie

Winner: Michael Govier and Will McCormack, If Something Occurs I Love You
Different nominees: Genius Loci, Opera, Sure – Folks

Greatest Animated Characteristic Movie

Winner: Soul
Different nominees: Onward, Over the Moon, A Shaun the Sheep Film: Farmageddon, Wolfwalkers

Greatest Documentary Brief Topic

Winner: Colette
Different nominees: A Concerto Is a Dialog, Do Not Cut up, Starvation Ward, A Love Music for Latasha

Photograph: Todd Wawrychuk / A.M.P.A.S. through Getty Pictures

Greatest Documentary Characteristic

Winner: My Octopus Trainer
Different nominees: Collective, Crip Camp: A Incapacity Revolution, The Mole Agent, Time

Greatest Visible Results

Winner: Tenet
Different nominees: Love and Monsters, The Midnight Sky, Mulan, The One and Solely Ivan

Greatest Supporting Actress

Winner: Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Different nominees: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; Glenn Shut, Hillbilly Elegy; Olivia Colman, The Father; Amanda Seyfried, Mank

Greatest Manufacturing Design

Winner: Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale, Mank
Different nominees: The Father, Ma Rainey’s Black Backside, Information of the World, Tenet

Greatest Cinematography

Winner: Erik Messerschmidt, Mank
Different nominees: Judas and the Black Messiah, Information of the World, Nomadland, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Greatest Movie Modifying

Winner: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, Sound of Metallic
Different nominees: The Father, Nomadland, Promising Younger Girl, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Greatest Unique Rating

Winner: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste, Soul
Different nominees: Da 5 Bloods, Mank, Minari, Information of the World

Greatest Unique Music

Winner: “Battle for You” from Judas and the Black Messiah
Different nominees: “Hear My Voice” from The Trial of the Chicago 7, “Husavik” from Eurovision Music Contest, “Io Si (Seen)” from The Life Forward, “Converse Now” from One Evening in Miami

Greatest Image

Winner: Nomadland
Different nominees: The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mank, Minari, Promising Younger Girl, Sound of Metallic, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Greatest Actress

Winner: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Different nominees: Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Backside; Andra Day, America vs. Billie Vacation; Vanessa Kirby, Items of a Girl; Carey Mulligan, Promising Younger Girl

Greatest Actor

Winner: Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Different nominees: Riz Ahmed, The Sound of Metallic; Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Backside; Gary Oldman, Mank; Steven Yeun, Minari

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Winner: Tyler Perry, for philanthropic work and addressing financial insecurity and homelessness

Winner: The Movement Image & Tv Fund, for offering assist providers to film-industry staff throughout the COVID-19 pandemic