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The show received a mostly negative reception from critics. On the review aggregator website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the show has a 24% approval rating, based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 4.17/10. The website's consensus reads, "The 93rd Oscars definitely delivered something different, but after a strong opening moment with Regina King, the changes to this year's ceremony cemented the importance of certain structural traditions -- and how damaging hedging your bets on the Academy's votes can be."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_academy_awards/s93|title=The Academy Awards: 93rd Oscars (2021)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate=April 26, 2021}}</ref> |
The show received a mostly negative reception from critics. On the review aggregator website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the show has a 24% approval rating, based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 4.17/10. The website's consensus reads, "The 93rd Oscars definitely delivered something different, but after a strong opening moment with Regina King, the changes to this year's ceremony cemented the importance of certain structural traditions -- and how damaging hedging your bets on the Academy's votes can be."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_academy_awards/s93|title=The Academy Awards: 93rd Oscars (2021)|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|accessdate=April 26, 2021}}</ref> |
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There was some criticism of the 93rd Academy Award show not featuring a tribute to [[movie theater]]s by highlighting [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema|the pandemic's impact on them]] such as closures, furloughs and layoffs of employees, and their impacted revenue loss |
There was some criticism of the 93rd Academy Award show not featuring a tribute to [[movie theater]]s by highlighting [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema|the pandemic's impact on them]] such as closures, furloughs and layoffs of employees, and their impacted revenue loss; conversely, the [[63rd Annual Grammy Awards]] included a tribute to [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the music industry|live music venues impacted by the pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-26|title=The winners, losers and "...wait, that was it?" of the 2021 Oscars|url=https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/oscars-2021-winners-losers-recap|access-date=2021-04-27|website=OnMilwaukee}}</ref> |
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== ''In Memoriam'' == |
== ''In Memoriam'' == |
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| 93rd Academy Awards | |
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| Date | April 25, 2021 |
| Site | Union Station and Dolby Theatre Los Angeles, California, US |
| Preshow hosts | Ariana DeBose Lil Rel Howery |
| Produced by | Jesse Collins Stacey Sher Steven Soderbergh |
| Directed by | Glenn Weiss |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | Nomadland |
| Most awards | Nomadland (3) |
| Most nominations | Mank (10) |
| TV in the United States | |
| Network | ABC |
| Duration | 3 hours, 19 minutes |
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The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2020 and early 2021. It took place in Los Angeles,[n 1] at both Union Station and the Dolby Theatre, on April 25, 2021 – two months later than planned, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema. Nominations had been announced on March 15.[1]
Nomadland won three awards, the most of the night, including Best Picture.[2] The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Mank, Soul, and Sound of Metal won two awards each. Another Round, Colette, If Anything Happens I Love You, Minari, My Octopus Teacher, Promising Young Woman, Tenet, and Two Distant Strangers won one award each.
This ceremony marked the first time since the 78th Academy Awards in 2006 that no film won more than three awards, and the first time since the 44th Academy Awards in 1972 – when the show ended with an Academy Honorary AwardtoCharlie Chaplin – that the ceremony did not end with the award for Best Picture (it ended with Best Actress and Actor).[3]
It was the least-viewed Oscar telecast to date, with 9.85 million viewers.[4]
The Academy announced in June 2020 that it was postponing the ceremony to April 25, 2021, from its originally scheduled date of February 28, 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema, thereby extending the eligibility period for feature films to February 28. The eligibility criteria had already been modified to account for films originally intended to have a theatrical release but were released directly to streaming services instead. It marked the fourth time that the Academy Awards have been postponed, and the first time since the 6th Academy Awards in 1934 that films released in two different calendar years were eligible for awards consideration in the same ceremony.[5]
The nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards were announced live on March 15, 2021, in a global livestream by Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas on the Awards' official website.[6][7]
At 83 years old, Anthony Hopkins was the oldest winner in an acting category.[8] Frances McDormand became the seventh person to win a third acting Oscar with her Best Actress win for Nomadland, and the second to win Best Actress three times.[9] The film also won Best Director; Chloé Zhao, who is Chinese, became the first woman of color to be awarded Best Director, and only the second woman after Kathryn Bigelow (who won in 2010, for The Hurt Locker) to be given the award.[10] Ms. Zhao's Oscar win was censored in China and blocked on Chinese social media platforms.[11]
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[12]
The Academy cancelled its annual Governors Awards ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and instead incorporated the winners into the Oscar ceremony, as had been the practice prior to the 82nd Academy Awards.[13] This was the first year of the Governors Awards in which there have not been any official winners of the Academy Honorary Award.
There were two recipients of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award:[14]
| Nominations | Film |
|---|---|
| 10 | Mank |
| 6 | The Father |
| Judas and the Black Messiah | |
| Minari | |
| Nomadland | |
| Sound of Metal | |
| The Trial of the Chicago 7 | |
| 5 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom |
| Promising Young Woman | |
| 4 | News of the World |
| 3 | One Night in Miami... |
| Soul | |
| 2 | Another Round |
| Borat Subsequent Moviefilm | |
| Collective | |
| Emma. | |
| Hillbilly Elegy | |
| Mulan | |
| Pinocchio | |
| Tenet |
| Awards | Film |
|---|---|
| 3 | Nomadland |
| 2 | The Father |
| Judas and the Black Messiah | |
| Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | |
| Mank | |
| Soul | |
| Sound of Metal |
Performances of the nominees for Best Original Song were shown during the ceremony's pre-show, Oscars: Into the Spotlight. Four of the performances were filmed from the rooftop terrace of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, while "Husavik" was performed on-location in its namesake of Húsavík, Iceland.[15] During the actual awards show, clips from the songs' music videos were shown.
| Name(s) | Role | Performed |
|---|---|---|
| Questlove | Musical director | |
| Molly Sandén | Performer | "Husavik" from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga |
| Laura Pausini | Performer | "Io sì (Seen)" from The Life Ahead |
| Celeste | Performer | "Hear My Voice" from The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| Leslie Odom Jr. | Performer | "Speak Now" from One Night in Miami... |
| H.E.R. | Performer | "Fight for You" from Judas and the Black Messiah |
20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures debuted trailers for their upcoming films during the ceremony, with someone from each film introducing their respective trailers. In an interview with Adweek, Jerry Daniello (SVP, entertainment brand solutions and Disney Ad Sales) explained that this move would "reinforce this year's theme that the Oscars will feel more like a movie rather than an awards show".[16][17]
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Ariana DeBose | Introduced the trailer for West Side Story[16] |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda | Introduced the trailer for In the Heights[16] |
| Questlove | Introduced the trailer for Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)[16] |
During its board of governors meeting on April 28, 2020, the Academy voted to consolidate the Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing category into a single Best Sound category (reducing the total number of categories to 23). The Sound branch had raised concerns that the two categories had too much overlap in scope.[18] The rules for Best Original Score now require that a film's score include a minimum of 60% original music, and franchise films and sequels must have a minimum of 80% new music.[18] For the first time, preliminary voting for Best International Feature Film was also opened to all voting members of the Academy.[18]
As part of the Academy's environmental initiatives, the distribution of physical and hardcopy items such as screener copies, screenplays, and music CDs would be discontinued after the 93rd Academy Awards. Screeners would be served solely through the members-only "Academy Screening Room" streaming service going forward.[18]
On December 8, 2020, Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher, and Steven Soderbergh were named the producers of the ceremony.[19] Glenn Weiss was slated to direct the ceremony for the sixth consecutive year.[20] Due to COVID-19-related considerations, the main ceremony would take place at Los Angeles Union Station rather than its usual home of the Dolby Theatre.[21][22] Performances of the nominees for Best Original Song would air during the red carpet pre-show rather than during the ceremony itself, with most of them to be performed from the rooftop terrace of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.[15]
Soderbergh stated that his goal for the ceremony was for it to be produced and directed as if it were a film itself. The ceremony was shot in 24p, instead of the customary 30p.[23] Production designer David Rockwell explained that the production sought inspiration from the earliest Academy Awards ceremonies, and that they had considered historic Oscars venues such as the Biltmore and Hollywood Roosevelt Hotels before deciding on Union Station. The original ticket lobby of the station would be used as the main location of the ceremony, while its adjacent patios would be used for pre- and post-show activity. Rockwell described the planned set design as constructing "a room within a room".[24][22]
For the third consecutive ceremony, there would be no singular host.[25] To reinforce the producers' goal of producing the ceremony as a film, the Academy announced an "ensemble cast" of 15 presenters on April 12 that would be involved in the ceremony in some way, including Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Bong Joon Ho, Don Cheadle, Bryan Cranston, Laura Dern, Harrison Ford, Regina King, Marlee Matlin, Rita Moreno, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, Renée Zellweger, and Zendaya. They would include all four of the acting winners from the 92nd ceremony, upholding the long-standing tradition that the acting awards at the Academy Awards be presented by the previous year's winners.[26][27]
The musical director of the ceremony was Questlove, in addition to being the show's in-house DJ. The music for the ceremony was largely remixed from compositions created by his band The Roots, with no in-house orchestra present.[28]
After the ceremony, a special called Oscars: After Dark aired, hosted by Colman Domingo and Andrew Rannells.[29]
In a break with tradition, the lead acting categories were presented last after the awarding of Best Picture.[30] This led many viewers to believe that the ceremony's producers were assuming that Chadwick Boseman would receive a posthumous win for Best Actor, and thus moved the presentation to pay tribute to him. Anthony Hopkins, who was not in attendance, was instead announced as the winner.[31]
The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the American film industry – including interruptions to film production and the nationwide closures of cinemas due to restrictions on commerce and public gatherings – had a major impact on the lead-up to the 93rd ceremony. In particular, the Academy Awards require films to have received a theatrical release in the previous calendar year, in at least one cinema in Los Angeles County for at least seven days with three screenings per-day, in order to be eligible. The Golden Globe Awards had changed its criteria for its 2021 edition to allow films originally scheduled to have a "bona fide theatrical release" in Los Angeles between March 15 and April 30 to be eligible if released direct-to-streaming.[32] In regard to the Oscars, the Academy stated that it was "in the process of evaluating all aspects of this uncertain landscape and what changes may need to be made".[32]
The AMPAS delayed its board of governors meeting to April 28,[33][34] where it voted to temporarily allow films first released via password-protected (covering subscription streaming services) or transactional video on demand services to be eligible for nominations at the 93rd Academy Awards, if they were originally scheduled to have a theatrical release, and are uploaded to AMPAS's online screening service within 60 days of their public release. The previous requirement for a seven-day theatrical release would be reinstated once cinemas have sufficiently resumed operations. To allow ease of compliance with the criteria, eligible screenings will also be allowed to occur in other major cities besides LA, specifically Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Miami, New York City, and the San Francisco Bay Area.[18][35][36]
There were talks of postponing or even canceling the 93rd ceremony.[37] On June 15, 2020, the Academy announced that the ceremony would be delayed by two months from February 28, 2021 to April 25, and the eligibility periods for feature films would likewise be extended through February 28.[38] In a joint statement, AMPAS president David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson explained that "for over a century, movies have played an important role in comforting, inspiring, and entertaining us during the darkest of times. They certainly have this year. Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our Awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalized for something beyond anyone's control."[38] The Academy's Governors Awards and Scientific and Technical Awards have been postponed indefinitely.[38] Following the postponement announcement, the British Academy Film Awards also moved from February to April,[38] and the Golden Globe Awards took the Oscars' previous date by moving to February 28.[39]
On October 7, 2020, the Academy issued a clarification of its eligibility criteria, stating that a week of nightly screenings at a drive-in theater within the aforementioned cities would also render films eligible for consideration in the 93rd ceremony.[40]
TVB confirmed that the Oscars ceremony will not be shown live in Hong Kong, for the first time since 1969. TVB spokesperson told AFP is a "commercial decision". However, some people believed the reason is the nomination of “Do Not Split”, a short documentary on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests in 2019.[41]
On December 1, 2020, a representative of the Academy told Variety that an in-person ceremony "will happen", as opposed to a fully remote or hybrid format. A hybrid format was used by the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, where the host and award presenters were present on-site, but all nominees appeared from remote locations.[42] On March 15, the Academy announced that the ceremony would take place at Los Angeles Union Station in addition to the Dolby Theatre, although exact details over how the ceremony will be split between these venues were not yet announced. All other in-person festivities associated with the Academy Awards had been canceled.[21]
On March 19, 2021, the show's organizers announced that nominees would not be able to attend via video conference. In a letter sent out to all the nominees, the producers have said that they went to "great lengths to provide a safe and enjoyable evening for all of you in person" believing that a "virtual thing will diminish those efforts".[43] However, on March 30, it was announced that additional venues for the ceremony would be established in London and Paris to reduce travel amongst nominees.[44] On April 18, The New York Times reported that a total of 20 remote venues had been confirmed for the ceremony.[45] These included the BFI Southbank in London and the Dolby Cinema in Seoul, the latter of which being where the Academy Award for Best Director was presented by Bong Joon-ho.
In mid-April, the Academy revealed details on safety protocols; audience capacity will be limited to 170 people, with attendees rotated in and out through the show. Attendees will be required to take a temperature check upon entry to the venue and take at least three COVID-19 tests in the days leading up to the ceremony. Guests will also be encouraged to get vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to attendance, but will not be required. While guests will be asked to wear face masks when not on-camera, Union Station will be treated as a television production location, and attendees will not be required to wear masks while on-camera. In a press conference, co-producer Steven Soderbergh stated that masks would also play a "very important role" in the ceremony's "narrative".[46][47]
Reports of homeless people being forced out of Union Station to accommodate the ceremony caused Los Angeles City Council member Kevin De León to state that "NO unhoused residents are being forced to relocate ... we were able to offer housing options to unhoused residents in the vicinity of Union Station".[48]
The show received a mostly negative reception from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the show has a 24% approval rating, based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 4.17/10. The website's consensus reads, "The 93rd Oscars definitely delivered something different, but after a strong opening moment with Regina King, the changes to this year's ceremony cemented the importance of certain structural traditions -- and how damaging hedging your bets on the Academy's votes can be."[49]
There was some criticism of the 93rd Academy Award show not featuring a tribute to movie theaters by highlighting the pandemic's impact on them such as closures, furloughs and layoffs of employees, and their impacted revenue loss; conversely, the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards included a tribute to live music venues impacted by the pandemic.[50]
The annual In Memoriam segment was presented by Angela Bassett. Instead of a performance, a montage was played alongside a version of the Stevie Wonder song "As". Many viewers complained some of the photos/names went by way too quickly, "like it was on speed 1.5x." An executive responded only by saying the editors of the segment "made the pace match the tempo." [51][52][53] The montage included:
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