Oscars 2021, Nomadland triumphs: best film and two more statuettes. Nothing for Italy

Held at the Dolby Theatre andUnion Station in Los Angeles overnight was the 2021 Academy Awards ceremony. Triumphing was the film Nomadland by Chloé Zhao, a previous winner of the Golden Lion in Venice and the Golden Globe for best drama and best director: the film set during the Great Recession of the 2007-2013s won the Oscars for best film, best director (which went to Chloé Zhao) and best lead actress, the prerogative of Francesc McDormand. The Oscar for best actor, on the other hand, goes to Anthony Hopkins for The Father - Nothing Is As It Seems, in his second statuette after winning it in 1992 for his memorable performance as Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs.

Best Supporting Actor is Britain’s Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah, while Best Supporting Actress is South Korea’s Yoon Yeo-jeong for Minari. Director and screenwriter Emerald Fennell wins the award for best original screenplay for A Promising Woman, of which she is also director, while The Father - Nothing Is As It Seems also wins the award for best nonoriginal screenplay (which goes to Britain’s Christopher Hampton and France’s Florian Zeller). The Oscar for best foreign film goes to Thomas Vinterberg’s Danish Another Round, Pete Docter’s Soul is best animated film. Best Documentary is My Friend at the Bottom of the Sea by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed, Best Short Film is Two Strangers by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, while Best Documentary Short is Colette by Anthony Giacchino and Best Animated Short is If Anything Happens I Love You by Michael Govier and Will McCormack.

As for the “technical” awards, best cinematography goes to Erik Messerschmidt for Mank, best editing is by Denmark’s Mikkel E.G. Nielsen for Sound of Metal (which also won best sound, the prerogative of Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh), best set design goes to Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale for Mank, the film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom wins best costumes(Ann Roth) and best makeup and hairstyling(Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson), best special effects are for Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher for the film Tenet.

Finally, the music awards: best score goes to Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste for Soul and best original song is Fight for you (music by H.E.R. and Dernst Emile II, lyrics by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas) from the film Judas and the Black Messiah. Nothing to do for the three Italian nominees: Laura Pausini and Niccolò Agliardi (along with U.S. Diane Warren) who were competing for best song with Io sì (seen) for La vita davanti a sè, Massimo Cantini Parrini competing for best costumes with Pinocchio, and Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti (along with Britain’s Mark Coulier) competing for best makeup and hairstyling with Pinocchio.

Pictured: a scene from Nomadland.

Oscars 2021, Nomadland triumphs: best film and two more statuettes. Nothing for Italy

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