The World Of Oscars
Stars added glabour to the two-hour-long low-key Oscars event, virutally and physically.
‘Nomadland’, Anthony Hopkins & Frances McDormand stole the show at the 93rd Academy Awards.
Here’s a list of winners, and guide to where you can stream these Oscar-rated films.
The Big Win
It was a huge day for ‘Nomadland’ which took home three big awards – Best Direction, Best Actress & Best Picture.
Chloé Zhao won the award for her direction, Frances McDormand bagged the Best Actress award in the leading role, and ‘Nomadland’ won the Best Picture title.
The story is about a sexagenarian woman who accept life of a modern-day nomad after losing everything in the Great Recession. People with Hulu subscription can watch the film.
Paternal Instincts
Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor award for his performance in ‘The Father’.
The movie is about a man who refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages, according to IMDB. It feature Olivia Colman, Imogen Poots and Rufus Sewell.
Amazon Prime users can watch the film on video-on-demand.
Making A Mark
Daniel Kaluuya won best supporting actor Oscar for his role as Black Panther activist Fred Hampton in ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’.
The actor was a front-runner in the category where he was nominated alongside his co-star LaKeith Stanfield. This is the first Academy award for Kaluuya, who is best known for movies such as ‘Get Out’, ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Queen & Slim’.
Kaluuya played Chicago Black Panther activist Fred Hampton, who was killed in an FBI raid in 1969.
Directed by Shaka King, the Warner Bros movie is inspired by true events in the late 1960s that were one of the most tumultuous and pivotal periods in American history. Hampton was 21 when he was assassinated during a coordinated raid by a tactical unit with orders from the FBI and the Chicago Police Department.
The film also features Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders and Martin Sheen. It is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Grandma To The Rescue
Youn Yuh-jung, the feisty grandmother in ‘Minari’, captured more than her grandson’s heart.
She is the second Asian actress to win the best supporting actress award at Oscars, more than four decades after Japanese-born Miyoshi Umeki earned the trophy for 1957’s ‘Sayonara’.
Youn plays Soon-ja, a card-playing grandmom with a knack for swearing, who’s moved from South Korea to join her daughter and stepson in his seemingly quixotic quest to trade dispiriting work in California for farming in Arkansas. Soon-ja and her initially wary grandson form an unlikely but loving bond.
Youn became an instant film star in South Korea with her 1971 debut ‘Fire Woman’. At the peak of her career, she married popular singer Cho Young-nam and moved with him to the United States, where he performed at Billy Graham’s church. Her American detour put her career on hold for nearly a decade, until she returned to South Korea, her marriage ended and she resumed acting.
The film isn’t streaming on any platform.
