Road drama ‘Nomadland’ won the Oscar for Best Picture as well as best director for Chloe Zhao at the 93rd Academy Awards. Beijing-born filmmaker Chloe Zhao was named best director making her the first Asian woman and only the second woman ever to take home the trophy
The film also won Frances McDormand her third Best Actress Oscar after ‘Fargo’ and ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’
Veteran actor Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor Oscar for his performance as a man suffering from dementia in the relationship drama ‘The Father’
Daniel Kaluuya won Best Supporting Actor for ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
South Korea’s veteran star Yuh-Jung Youn won the Best Supporting Actress trophy for her role in ‘Minari’. The 73-year-old Youn became the first Asian actress to win an Oscar after Miyoshi Umeki’s win for ‘Sayonara’ in 1957.
Actor-director Emerald Fennell bagged the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the movie ‘Promising Young Woman’