The 93rd Academy Awards took place on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, at Union Station, which was used for the shooting of several films.
Florian Zeller’s French film «The Father» won two Oscars for Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. He took the opportunity to thank the film crew, and paid tribute to actor Anthony Hopkins for his lead role in the film. He add : I wrote the script for him. For me, he’s the greatest living actor.
As for actor Anthony Hopkins, he received the award for best actor.
Filmmaker Chloé Zhao wins the 2021 Oscar for Best Director in Hollywood.
The recipients of the 2021 Oscars
- Best Film: Nomadland
- Best Director: Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
- Best Actress: Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
- Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
- Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung (Minari)
- Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
- Best Original Screenplay: Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
- Best Screenplay (adaptation): Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (The Father)
- Best Original Music: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste (Soul)
- Best Original Song: Fight for You (Judas and the Black Messiah; music by H.E.R. and Dernst Emile II; lyrics by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas)
- Best Foreign Language Film: Drunk (Thomas Vinterberg)
- Best Animated Film: Soul
- Best Documentary: The Wisdom of the Octopus
- Best Makeup and Hairstyle: Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson (The Blues of Ma Rainey)
- Best Costumes: Ann Roth (The Blues of Ma Rainey)
- Best Set Design: Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale (Mank)
- Best Photography: Erik Messerschmidt (Mank)
- Best Editing: Mikkel E. G. Nielsen (Sound of Metal)
- Best Sound: Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh (Sound of Metal)
- Best Special Effects: Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher (Tenet)
- Best Short Film: Two Distant Strangers (Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe)
- Best Animated Short: If Anything Happens I Love You (Will Mc Cormack and Michael Govier)
- Best Documentary Short: Colette (Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard)
