The Highs and Lows of the 2021 Academy Awards

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On the April 26, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the 93rd Academy Awards. In The News: The Setting/Format/ToneLack of Clips/Montages Song Performances Happened During the Pre-Show No Playing People Off, So the Speeches Were Long Ask Chris about “watching” it via Twitter Brad: 2021 Oscars Winners: ‘Nomadland’ Wins Best Picture in a Ceremony That Certainly Shook Things Up Ben: Oscars 2021: ABC Executive Talks About the “Calculated Risk” of Ending with the Best Actor Category Brad: Anthony Hopkins Gives a Belated Oscars Acceptance Speech, Pays Tribute to Chadwick Boseman HT: China Censored Chloe Zhao’s Historic Oscar Wins Random MomentsFrances McDormand’s howl (backstory) Oscars Trivia segment, leading to Glenn Close’s “Da Butt”Brad: The Morning Watch: 2021 Oscars Highlights: New Format, Best Speeches, Glenn Close Loves “Da Butt”, and More History MadeChloe Zhao is the first woman of color to ever win a directing Oscar. Anthony Hopkins is now the oldest Oscar winner in any acting category at 83 years old. Frances McDormand is now the second person to ever win Best Actress three times, joining Katharine Hepburn, who has four. Yuh-jung Youn is the first Korean performer to win an Oscar in an acting category. Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson became the first Black women to win an Oscar in the Best Makeup and Hairstyling category for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Emerald Fennell’s win for Best Original Screenplay is the first time a woman has won that category since Diablo Cody won for Juno. Big TakeawaysEven during a pandemic year, Netflix couldn’t win Best Picture. All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Monday, April 26, 2021.
0:04.0	On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the 93rd annual Academy Awards.
0:08.8	My name is Ben Pearson, I'm the senior writer at slash film.com, and I am joined on today's episode by
0:13.2	slash film managing editor Jacob Hall. Hello, hello, hello. Weekend editor Brad
0:17.5	Omen. Hey that's me. And Writers Twy Turnbooie. Hey everyone.
0:21.1	And Chris Van Vangelista.
0:23.0	Hello.
0:24.0	All right guys, so we're just going to talk about all Oscars
0:26.7	today on the podcast.
0:28.2	So if you didn't watch and don't care,
0:31.4	then maybe skip this episode. But Chris actually didn't watch and don't care then maybe skip this episode but Chris actually didn't watch the show and we'll have some commentary on that very shortly so before we get into the winners I just wanted to talk about the differences that sort of took place in this show.
0:46.5	Obviously it was a very different year and the Oscars sort of reflected that.
0:50.4	The setting and the format and the tone, these things were very, very different than the sort of normally stodgy kind of Dolby's theater normal traditional Oscar vibe that we got.
1:02.8	It took place in Union Station in Los Angeles this year.
1:06.2	And the format was much different.
1:08.4	Stephen Sutterberg was one of the executive producers.
1:11.1	And it's sort of like, you know, he was hyping up beforehand that this was kind of like quote unquote feel like a movie so I wanted to sort of open the floor to you guys and see what you thought about just the general vibe of the show do Do you think it felt like a movie and what did you think about it? Do you prefer this kind of loosey-goosey style of the Oscars last night to the more traditional sort of structured version.
1:34.0	So if anybody wants to jump in, go for it.
1:35.6	Yeah, I'll jump in.
1:36.5	This ruled.
1:37.5	Up until the very end, this was the best author ceremony I've seen years.
1:41.1	There's absolutely no BS in it.
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