WASHINGTON, April 26 – The 93rd Academy Awards are underway at Union Station in Los Angeles. The Oscars kicked off at 8 pm ET on Sunday (00.0 GMT on Monday), according to the ABC broadcast.
The ceremony is being held with a limited audience because of strict COVID-19 restrictions, according to Sputnik.
Regina King, director of ‘One Night in Miami,’ opened the show.
‘Another Round‘ by Danish lm director Thomas Vinterberg won the Best International Feature Film Oscar, while the Best Original Screenplay award went to Emerald Fennell’s ‘Promising Young Woman.’
Daniel Kaluuya won the Academy Award for best-supporting actor for his role in ‘Judas and the Black Messiah.’
The Best Supporting Actress Oscar went to Yuh Jung Youn for her role in ‘Minari.’ Yuh Jung Youn became the first Asian woman to win an acting Oscar since 1958.
Pixar’s ‘Soul‘ won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, while the Best Animated Short award went to ‘If Anything Happens I Love You,’ according to live ABC coverage. ‘Soul‘ was released in the US for home viewing only on the Disney+ streaming service last October, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, Chloe Zhao became the first woman of colour and the first Chinese woman to ever win the Academy Award for directing.
Zhao got the Oscar for her drama ‘Nomadland’ on Sunday, according to the ABC broadcast. She is the second female filmmaker to get the award, after Kathryn Bigelow who became the first woman to be named best director at Oscars in 2010.
Source: BERNAMA