Academy Award For Best Picture

Oscars 2021: Chloe Zhao's Best Director win meets lukewarm response, censorship in her home country China

Zhao faced a nationalist backlash in March when she won a Golden Globe for Best Director, with internet users in China questioning whether she could be called Chinese and some saying she had insulted her home country in comments on the political system.

Oscars 2021 LIVE updates: Nomadland wins big, Anthony Hopkins bags Best Actor for The Father

While Nomadland won Best Picture, Best Director (Chloe Zhao), and Best Actress (Frances McDormand), Anthony Hopkins was named the Best Actor for The Father.

The Shape of Water's Best Picture win at 2018 Oscars reflects Academy's bent for honouring inexplicable films

This is for those of us who simply cannot understand how the Best Picture statuettes go to movies we do not understand.