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Nomadland won Best Picture at the 2021 Oscars on Sunday night, following director Chloé Zhao’s history-making win for Best Director earlier in the night.
In an odd move on Sunday night, the 93rd Academy Awards presented Best Picture before Best Actor or Best Actress, despite the fact that the category is traditionally given out as the last award of the night—perhaps in order to time Best Actor, which most assume will go to the late Chadwick Boseman, for last.
We thank all the hearts and hands that came together to make this movie,” Zhao said, and then thanked the real-life nomads she feature in the film, including Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells. “Thank you for teaching us the power of resilience and hope and for reminding us what true kindness looks like.”
Then star Frances McDormand, who is also a producer on the film, stepped up to the mic to speak. “Please watch our movie on the largest screen possible,” McDormand said, and encouraged everyone to go “stand shoulder to shoulder” at a movie theater to watch all of the Oscar-nominated films “one day very soon.”
Then McDormand concluded with a wolf cry: “We give this one to our wolf,” she said, before throwing back her head and howling.
Nomadland beat out seven other films nominated for Best Picture this year: The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mank, Minari, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal, and The Trial of the Chicago 7.
Other 2021 Oscar wins for the night include Chloé Zhao for Best Director for Nomadland—making history as the first woman of color ever to win Best director—Daniel Kaluuya for Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Messiah, Youn Yuh-jung for Best Supporting Actress for Minari, and Emerald Fennell for Best Original Screenplay for Promising Young Woman.
Nomadland was also nominated for Best Director, Best Actress (Frances McDormand), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing at the Oscars. The film is currently available to stream on Hulu and on-demand.
There are two more categories to go, and then we can officially—finally—conclude the 2021 awards season, which was extended two months longer in an effort to accommodate for films that delayed release due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been a long few months of the piping hot film takes, but now it’s time to go to bed. Don’t worry, we’re sure Film Twitter will find something else to argue about soon enough.
