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“Nomadland” has wandered straight into the Academy Award for best picture.
It’s an unprecedented triumph in the award show’s most prestigious category for a film with a woman as both director and lead.
BREAKING: “Nomadland” wins the Academy Award for Best Picture. https://t.co/sdgeoBK7lX #Oscars pic.twitter.com/zO4eu2lK81
— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2021
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It’s just the second film directed by a woman to win a best picture Oscar. The first was the Kathryn Bigelow-directed “The Hurt Locker” in 2009.
It beat out fellow nominees “Judas and the Black Messiah,” “Minari,” “Sound of Metal,” “The Father,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Mank” and “Promising Young Woman.”
“We should have had a karaoke bar.”
“My voice is in my sword.”
Here’s Frances McDormand’s acceptance speech for Best Actress. https://t.co/sdgeoBK7lX #Oscars pic.twitter.com/7Yzsueqp8R
— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2021
Meanwhile, McDormand nabbed another Best Actress Oscar thanks to her performance in the movie.
“And the Oscar for best Actress goes to…Frances McDormand.” https://t.co/sdgeoBK7lX #Oscars pic.twitter.com/AzJ5mdhKhj
— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2021
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It’s the second best actress Oscar for McDormand, who also won in 2018 for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” That Oscar statuette was stolen at the post-show Governors Ball, though it was recovered before the night was over.
Bet you didn’t have Frances McDormand howling like a wolf in her Best Picture acceptance speech on your #Oscars bingo card.https://t.co/sdgeoBK7lX pic.twitter.com/O0CWmjhLfP
— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2021
She plays a woman who leaves her small town to join a group of wanderers in the American West.
Check out Chloé Zhao’s reaction to Frances McDormand’s Best Actress win. https://t.co/sdgeoBK7lX #Oscars pic.twitter.com/oliM64gGEV
— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2021
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McDormand beat out fellow nominees Viola Davis, Carey Mulligan, Vanessa Kirby and Andra Day.