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тАШNomadlandтАЩ Picks Up The Awards For Best Picture And Best Actress At Oscars 2021

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By The Associated Press.

тАЬNomadlandтАЭ has wandered straight into the Academy Award for best picture.

ItтАЩs an unprecedented triumph in the award showтАЩs most prestigious category for a film with a woman as both director and lead.

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ItтАЩs just the second film directed by a woman to win a best picture Oscar. The first was the Kathryn Bigelow-directed тАЬThe Hurt LockerтАЭ in 2009.

It beat out fellow nominees тАЬJudas and the Black Messiah,тАЭ тАЬMinari,тАЭ тАЬSound of Metal,тАЭ тАЬThe Father,тАЭ тАЬThe Trial of the Chicago 7,тАЭ тАЬMankтАЭ and тАЬPromising Young Woman.тАЭ

Meanwhile, McDormand nabbed another Best Actress Oscar thanks to her performance in the movie.

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ItтАЩs the second best actress Oscar for McDormand, who also won in 2018 for тАЬThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.тАЭ That Oscar statuette was stolen at the post-show Governors Ball, though it was recovered before the night was over.

She plays a woman who leaves her small town to join a group of wanderers in the American West.

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McDormand beat out fellow nominees Viola Davis, Carey Mulligan, Vanessa Kirby and Andra Day.

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