Oscar winners 2021Explore our selection of interviews, features and reviews © Chris Pizzello/POOL/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockNomadland — a triple Oscar winner not without its flawsChloé Zhao’s film showcases Frances McDormand’s brilliance but there is a false note in its melding of real nomads and fictive heroine On Oscars night, men’s fashion stole the showAcademy Awards night proved uncharacteristically fun and uncommonly individual when it came to style‘Nomadland’ wins Best Picture, Director and Actress OscarsPared-down ceremony held as film industry reels from impact of pandemicNomadland, Disney and the drive for Oscars dominance in 2021Much has changed in the Academy Awards since 2008, but some things may be about to come full circleChloé Zhao: the film director capturing life on the edgeThe force behind ‘Nomadland’ is winning awards and looking forward to super heroesChina and Hollywood: the end of the affair Tinseltown grapples with censorship and competition as Chinese box office overtakes USMore from this SeriesAnd the winner is . . . a less predictable Oscars nightA refreshingly diverse nominations list signals the end of the era when movie moguls could muscle and spend their way to gloryBest Director nominee Lee Isaac Chung on Minari and ‘pursuing a crazy dream’The filmmaker almost quit the business before making his new movie — now it is up for six OscarsOscar nominations 2021: Netflix and women already winnersStreaming service secures 35 nominations while two female filmmakers will compete for the first time for Best Director awardNomadland — delicate, incisive portrait of a life lived on the road Frances McDormand stars in writer-director Chloé Zhao’s powerful picture of a particular American subcultureJudas and the Black Messiah — a bristling story of death and betrayalAn FBI informant infiltrates the Black Panthers in Shaka King’s truth-based moviePromising Young Woman — Carey Mulligan turns toxic avengerThe Best Actress Oscar contender shines in Emerald Fennell’s confident first feature about a woman out for revengePixar’s Pete Docter on Soul and being animated by life’s big questionsThe maker of Up, Inside Out and this year’s favourite to win Best Animated Feature talks about entering the spiritual realm — and being kept out of cinemas Viola Davis: ‘Taking control of your destiny in Hollywood isn’t enough’ The Oscar-winning actress on playing blues singer Ma Rainey, battling Hollywood prejudice and what keeps her motivatedMank — David Fincher’s ravishing Valentine to old HollywoodGary Oldman plays the screenwriter sidelined by Orson Welles in a true-ish Citizen Kane origin storyRiz Ahmed gives a career-defining performance in Sound of MetalThe Best Actor Oscar contender scales the heights in his portrayal of a rock drummer who suddenly becomes deafMinari — a gently subtle story of migration and belongingLee Isaac Chung’s Oscar-nominated film follows a Korean family settling in rural ArkansasThe Trial of the Chicago 7 — Aaron Sorkin’s drama is in the dialogue Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance and Sacha Baron Cohen lead a starry cast in a courtroom-set story of ’60s activism
