Month: April 2021

‘Nomadland’ Brings Home The Oscar For Best Picture The epic odyssey of a woman who loses her job and her home — and joins the growing number of Americans living out of vans as they search for work — is the big winner at the…

2021 Oscars: Tyler Perry Accepts The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Viola Davis presented the award to the filmmaker at the Academy Awards on Sunday — she worked with Perry on the 2009 film Madea Goes to Jail. Read more on NPR

It’s Now Possible: Performers Of Color Could Win All Four Acting Oscars With wins for Youn Yuh-jung as Best Supporting Actress, and Daniel Kaluuya for Best Supporting Actor, there is a real possibility that performers of color will sweep all four Oscars for acting. Read…

Youn Yuh-jung Is First Korean To Win Oscar For Best Supporting Actress In the celebrated film Minari, Youn Yuh-jung plays Soon-ja, the grandmother of a young boy whose family has relocated to rural Arkansas. “I really understood this script deeply,” she told NPR. Read more…

Pixar’s ‘Soul’ Wins Best Animated Feature — The Film Never Played In U.S. Theaters Last fall, with most theaters closed due to COVID-19, Disney announced it would release Soul exclusively on its streaming service Disney+. Soul is the first Pixar film to feature a Black…

Chloé Zhao Is The First Woman Of Color To Win Oscar For Best Director The Nomadland director was also the first woman to receive four Oscar nominations in a single year, in the Best Film Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture categories….

Regina King Opens Oscars As Emerald Fennell Wins Best Original Screenplay Los Angeles’ Union Station is the new backdrop for this year’s Academy Awards, as Promising Young Woman writer Emerald Fennell wins Best Original Screenplay. Read more on NPR

‘Ma Rainey’ Hairstylists Are 1st Black Women To Win Makeup, Hairstyling Oscar Hairstylists Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson along with makeup artist Sergio Lopez-Rivera won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for their work on the film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Read more…

Oscars 2021: The Complete Winners List Find all the 2021 Academy Award winners right here. We’ll be updating the list throughout the night. Read more on NPR

2021 Is Oscar’s Most Diverse Year — And Now We Know Why A new study from UCLA shows Hollywood made big progress last year in terms of including women and people of color, both behind and in front of the camera — and that diversity…

#NPRPoetry: Natalie Diaz Poet Natalie Diaz — author of Postcolonial Love Poem, which was a finalist for the National Book Award — tells NPR’s Michel Martin about some of the listener-submitted poems that caught her eye. Read more on NPR