Nomadland was called Best Picture, not remarkably, however the huge winners of the night were Hulu, the movie’s banner of option (after a week in theaters); Netflix, whose Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Mank each won 2 Oscars; followed by Amazon Prime, where you can discover two-time winner Sound of Metal. And, suffice it to state, Best Animated Feature and Original Score winner Soul went right to Disney+.
None of which went undetected by the ever-feisty Frances McDormand, who, while onstage as a co-producer to accept Best Picture for Nomadland with the movie’s winning director-producer Chloé Zhao, provided her normal Oscar night demand of our much better angels: this time to “please view our motion picture on the biggest screen possible and one day extremely, soon, take everybody you understand into a theater, shoulder to shoulder, because dark area and view every movie that’s represented here this evening. We offer this one to our Wolf.” And with that, she groaned into the rafters.
She went back to the phase as the only 3-time Best Actress Oscar winner, edging past Meryl Streep (who has three Oscars, however one is supporting) and landing one shy of all-timer Katharine Hepburn, who got 4 in between 1934 and 1982.
After mentioning that the only thing missing out on was a karaoke bar, so that the similarity Leslie Odom Jr. might bring your house down, she simply stated, “I have no words, my voice is in my sword, we know the sword is our work—and I like work.” She provided a little chuckle, as if she were including, “Duh, right?” But she did include, “Thank you for knowing that, and thanks for this.”
