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26 Apr, 9 tweets, 4 min read

Happy Monday. If you missed the 93rd Academy Awards, we’re pulling together all of the night’s highlights: the firsts, the wins and … “Da Butt.”

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Front-runner “Nomadland” took home the trophy for Best Picture, followed by its star and best actress winner Frances McDormand.

The film’s director, Chloé Zhao, also became the first woman of color to win best director. It’s the first time a woman has won the prize since 2010.

News of Chloé Zhao’s Oscars win appeared to be censored within China, where the director has fallen victim to a wave of nationalism and attacks accusing her of betraying the country where she was born. washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac…

Daniel Kaluuya, who was nominated alongside co-star LaKeith Stanfield, won his first Oscar for his portrayal of Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”

Hampton was killed in a law enforcement raid in 1969. Kaluuya honored his legacy at the end of his acceptance speech.

Here, we explain “Da Butt,” and how Glenn Close briefly took the Oscars ceremony from unusual and a bit speech-heavy to positively lit. washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…

Along with all the wins came all the fits. Monochrome brights. Golden touches. Regina King’s fantastical ensemble. It’s all here: washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021…

What probably will be remembered most was the show’s disappointing ending, a result of the risky decision to switch up the order of categories.

Anthony Hopkins won best actor over the late Chadwick Boseman, which was the biggest upset of the night. washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…

This year’s Oscars may have ended with a giant shrug: Hopkins wasn’t even present to accept his statuette. But the awkwardness felt somehow appropriate for the unsettling, uncertain year that had gone before, Ann Hornaday writes. washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

Some six years after the #OscarsSoWhite protests about the dearth of non-White nominees, the academy embraced Black, Asian and female talent as never before.

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