Oscars 2021: Chloe Zhao Creates History by Winning Best Director For Nomadland

History was created at the 93rd annual Academy Awards that took place in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, as Chloe Zhao became the first woman of colour and the second female to win the best director award for Nomadland.

Chloe Zhao becomes the first woman of color, and just the second woman ever, to win the Oscar for Best Director #Oscars pic.twitter.com/NlDlNgq9wf

— The A.V. Club (@TheAVClub) April 26, 2021

2021 saw Oscars taking place in a totally different way owing to the ongoing pandemic; the ceremony is socially distanced and had a very pared-back red carpet with just 170 guests in attendance.

Furthermore, all the attendees wore masks when off-camera during this year’s ceremony, and a pre-show telecast featured performances of all five songs that were nominated for Best Original Song. 

It was the first time this year that the majority of the Best Actor nominees are actors of color.

Daniel Kaluuya won the Actor in a Best Supporting Role for Judas And The Black Messiah. With this honor, he becomes only the 10th Black male to win in the best acting category.

Meanwhile, “Soul,” which took home the best-animated feature award, is also Pixar’s first film to feature a Black character in the lead.

Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson, two-thirds of the hairstyling and makeup team behind “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” also made history at the 93rd annual Academy Awards. The pair are the first Black women to receive a nomination for best makeup and hairstyling and became the first to win.

Youn Yuh-Jung becomes the first-ever Korean to win the Academy Award this year in the Best Supporting Actress category for Minari

Here check out the complete list of nominees in different categories along with the winners mentioned in bold text:

Best Picture
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Actor
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Gary Oldman, Mank
Steven Yeun, Minari

Best Actress
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Director
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
David Fincher, Mank
Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Supporting Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

Best International Feature
Another Round
Better Days
Collective 
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Quo Vadis, Aida?

Best Animated Feature
Onward
Over the Moon
Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon 
Soul
Wolfwalkers

Best Original Screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
The Father
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
The White Tiger

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Pinocchio

Best Costume Design
Emma
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Mulan
Pinocchio

Best Sound
Greyhound
Mank
News of the World
Soul
Sound of Metal

Best Live-Action Short
Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
Two Distant Strangers
White Eye

Best Animated Short
Burrow
Genius Loci
If Anything Happens I Love You
Opera
Yes-People

Best Visual Effects
Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet

Best Production Design
The Father 
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
News of the World
Tenet

Best Cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
News of the World
Nomadland
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Film Editing
The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Original Score
Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Soul

Best Original Song
“Fight for You,” Judas and the Black Messiah
“Hear My Voice,” The Trial of the Chicago 7
“Husavik,” Eurovision Song Contest
“Io Si (Seen),” The Life Ahead
“Speak Now,” One Night in Miami