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The Oscars

  • TV Special
  • 2021
  • TV-14
  • 2h 30m
IMDb RATING
3.6/10
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The Oscars (2021)
The Oscars | Live Tonight at 8e|5p on ABC
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The top movies of the past year are honored at the 93rd Academy Awards, with Mank (2020), in the lead with 10 nominations, as well as The Father (2020), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), N... Read allThe top movies of the past year are honored at the 93rd Academy Awards, with Mank (2020), in the lead with 10 nominations, as well as The Father (2020), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), Nomadland (2020) and Sound of Metal (2019).The top movies of the past year are honored at the 93rd Academy Awards, with Mank (2020), in the lead with 10 nominations, as well as The Father (2020), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), Nomadland (2020) and Sound of Metal (2019).

  • Director
    • Glenn Weiss
  • Writers
    • Amberia Allen
    • Dream Hampton
    • Jon Macks
  • Stars
    • Vanessa Kirby
    • Brad Pitt
    • David Fincher
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.6/10
    1.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Glenn Weiss
    • Writers
      • Amberia Allen
      • Dream Hampton
      • Jon Macks
    • Stars
      • Vanessa Kirby
      • Brad Pitt
      • David Fincher
    • 39User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 1 win & 4 nominations total

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    Vanessa Kirby
    Vanessa Kirby
    • Self - Nominee
    Brad Pitt
    Brad Pitt
    • Self - Presenter
    David Fincher
    David Fincher
    • Self - Nominee
    Harrison Ford
    Harrison Ford
    • Self - Presenter
    Halle Berry
    Halle Berry
    • Self - Presenter
    Olivia Colman
    Olivia Colman
    • Self - Nominee
    Gary Oldman
    Gary Oldman
    • Self - Nominee
    Carey Mulligan
    Carey Mulligan
    • Self - Nominee
    Joaquin Phoenix
    Joaquin Phoenix
    • Self - Presenter
    Zendaya
    Zendaya
    • Self - Presenter
    Amanda Seyfried
    Amanda Seyfried
    • Self - Nominee
    Bryan Cranston
    Bryan Cranston
    • Self - Presenter
    Reese Witherspoon
    Reese Witherspoon
    • Self - Presenter
    Viola Davis
    Viola Davis
    • Self - Nominee & Presenter
    Sean Connery
    Sean Connery
    • Self - Memorial Tribute
    • (archive footage)
    Angela Bassett
    Angela Bassett
    • Self - Presenter
    Bong Joon Ho
    Bong Joon Ho
    • Self - Presenter
    Renée Zellweger
    Renée Zellweger
    • Self - Presenter
    • Director
      • Glenn Weiss
    • Writers
      • Amberia Allen
      • Dream Hampton
      • Jon Macks
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    1krasykova

    Worst Oscar in history

    Most boring and confusing show ever. Look at Bafta!!!Thats how you do it during Covid,people!
    4Prismark10

    The 93rd Oscars

    The Covid pandemic has created a challenge for awards shows. It has also led to low ratings.

    The Oscars decided to ban Zoom but this was an underwhelming reworking.

    The show badly needs a main presenter, one who is a comedian. This one needed laughs. There was just a lack of fun with the reworking.

    Some of the speeches from the presenters were overlong and dull. The In Memoriam segment rushed through the people who died in the previous 12 months but the introduction to it needed it to be shorter.

    Also when you celebrate the work of the artists and the production crew. I would like to see an example of their work. I was not enthused with a factoid that a best supporting actor nominee once worked in a fast food outlet or such like.

    Then there was the change of order. There was no need for the Best Picture to be given out so early.

    The emotional moment of the evening was a damp squib. The Best Actor Oscar was held last in the expectation that the late Chadwick Boseman would be the winner. He did not win. Anthony Hopkins pipped him to the post and he was in bed in his homeland of Wales by that time.
    1skitofit

    A train station trash bin has more substance

    They threatened the homeless people living at the station to leave before the oscars or they would have their belongings thrown away. Then they virtue signal about oppressed minorities and the disenfranchised? Lol. Hypocrisy at its finest... that should be enough reason to tune out, but there's so much more... and I don't have time to write it all out. This oscars had the lowest viewership in history, and I think the people have decided to boycott.
    1martinjacand

    We stayed up all night for this??

    Love the Oscars, and as usual we stayed up all night (in Sweden the pre-show began 12:30 am and the main show finished at 5:20 am). It's always worth it, even though I have to take some time off work. But for this?? A conference for industry people. So many dull, lifeless choises. No music, no humor, no clips or even images. I don't care how 10 people I've never heard of discover cinema - I want to see the work they're being celebrated for.
    1ecwfanatic93

    The Worst Oscars in Decades.

    This entire show was poorly mismanaged and structured in a way that made the entire night drag on more than it ever should. The way the nominees were presented had some thought to it but ultimately was made to seem more pretentious rather than illuminating. The order of awards was obviously a poor decision as the main award of the night was given out third to last not giving the Nomadland team the recognition past winners have been given. Not only that but the restructuring was clearly to pay homage to the late Chadwick Boseman who didn't win making the show seem like a big build up to a hugely deflating moment that isn't fair to the viewers, the nominees, or the winners. The In Memoriam segment was nothing short of shameful with this cheery music accompanying fleeting images of people who didn't get their moment of recognition because of the pacing.

    This is the most shameful show I have seen from watching the Oscars year to year and they must do better.

    If the biggest award in film is handled this way then why have it at all.

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    • Trivia
      At 83, Anthony Hopkins became the oldest Best Actor nominee ever. Previously, this record was held by Richard Farnsworth, who received a nomination at the age of 79 for his performance in The Straight Story (1999). Hopkins would eventually win the award and now holds the record for oldest Best Actor winner.
    • Quotes

      Self - Winner: Oh my god. I did not expect to win this award. I am so, so, so, so grateful. Not only to win but to be a part of such an important, important story. So thank you so much. Thank you to the Academy - I've always wanted to say that. And of course, my collaborators D'Mile and Tiara Thomas, the song wouldn't be what it was without them. Of course I have to thank God for giving us these gifts, and my parents, my beautiful mother who's here with me today and my father at home. All those days of listening to Sly and the Family Stone and Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye, they really paid off. So thank you, Dad. Thank you so much to Archie and Shaka King and everybody that was involved in this movie and gave me the call and gave us the call to do this record. I'm so, so grateful. I just want to say this. You know, musicians, filmmakers, I believe we have an opportunity and a responsibility, to me, to tell the truth and to write history the way that it was and how it connects us to today and what we see going on in the world today. And yeah, I'm just, I have no words. I'm just so, so, so happy and grateful. And yeah, knowledge is power. Music is power. And as long as I'm standing I'm always gonna fight for us. I'm always gonna fight for my people and fight for what's right, and I think that's what music does and that's what storytelling does. So thank you so much. Thank you.

    • Connections
      Featured in AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast: Next Year Will Be Quacked Up (2020)
    • Soundtracks
      Fight for You
      Written by H.E.R., D'Mile and Tiara Thomas

      Performed by H.E.R.

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    • Release date
      • April 25, 2021 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • Korean
      • Chinese
    • Also known as
      • The 93rd Oscars
    • Filming locations
      • Union Station, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Jesse Collins Entertainment
      • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 30m(150 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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