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The 93rd Academy Awards were held at Los Angeles’ historic Union Station, and were not without COVID-19 restrictions.

As per usual, there was a red carpet and celebs in ball gowns, but only nominees, their guests, and presenters were allowed to attend following rigorous testing and quarantining.

I know what it takes just to get dressed for the red carpet, never mind also taking all that time for pandemic safety.

Alright, we won’t keep you waiting any longer.

A massive round of applause for the best picture winner goes to Nomadland (pictured above), which was nominated alongside The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mank, Minari, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal, and The Trial of the Chicago 7.

Frances McDormand from Nomadland also won the best actress category.

Many thought that Chadwick Boseman would win best actor for his performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, but Anthony Hopkins, who starred in The Father, took the statue for his unparalleled performance of a man losing his memory.

For South Africans, the big news was My Octopus Teacher winning best documentary feature – you can watch that moment here.

Here are some of the winners in the other major categories, courtesy of USA Today:

Best supporting actress

WINNER: Yuh-jung Youn, Minari

Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy

Olivia Colman, The Father

Amanda Seyfried, Mank

Best supporting actor

WINNER: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7

Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami

Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best director

WINNER: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

David Fincher, Mank

Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round

Original screenplay

WINNER: Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell

Judas and the Black Messiah, Shaka King and Will Berson

Minari, Lee Isaac Chung

Sound of Metal, Darius Marder and Abraham Marder

The Trial of the Chicago 7, Aaron Sorkin

Adapted screenplay

WINNER: The Father, Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, (winner of longest movie title nominated, though) Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Peter Baynham, Erica Rivinoja, Dan Mazer, Jena Friedman, and Lee Kern

Nomadland, Chloé Zhao

One Night in Miami, Kemp Powers

The White Tiger, Ramin Bahran

Animated feature

WINNER: Soul

Onward

Over the Moon

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

Wolfwalkers

Documentary feature

WINNER: My Octopus Teacher

Collective

Crip Camp

The Mole Agent

Time

For the winners in all of the other categories, head here.

[source:usatoday]