Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) is the first woman of color to win the Oscar for best director. Anthony Hopkins and Frances McDormand won Best Actor and Best Actress. Nomadland received the Best Picture prize.
The epic odyssey of a woman who loses her job and her home — and joins the growing number of Americans living out of vans as they search for work — is the big winner at the 2021 Academy Awards.
With wins for Youn Yuh-jung as Best Supporting Actress, and Daniel Kaluuya for Best Supporting Actor, there is a real possibility that performers of color will sweep all four Oscars for acting.
In the celebrated film Minari, Youn Yuh-jung plays Soon-ja, the grandmother of a young boy whose family has relocated to rural Arkansas. "I really understood this script deeply," she told NPR.
Last fall, with most theaters closed due to COVID-19, Disney announced it would release Soul exclusively on its streaming service Disney+. Soul is the first Pixar film to feature a Black protagonist.
Hairstylists Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson, along with makeup artist Sergio Lopez-Rivera, won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for their work on the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
The Nomadland director was also the first woman to receive four Oscar nominations in a single year, in the Best Film Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture categories.
Los Angeles' Union Station is the new backdrop for this year's Academy Awards, as Promising Young Woman writer Emerald Fennell wins Best Original Screenplay.
A new study from UCLA shows Hollywood made big progress last year in terms of including women and people of color, both behind and in front of the camera — and that diversity is what audiences want.
Tonight's ceremony closes out the longest and most unconventional awards season in Hollywood history. Several presenters and nominees will appear in person, and there's even a red carpet of sorts.
A little girl is initially ashamed when her immigrant parents stop the car to forage for watercress by the side of the road — until she learns more about her family's history in China.
Divya Victor's new book is a compilation of poems, memories, histories and essays, considering domestic terrorism against Asian Americans, in urgent words that spill out on the page like blood.
GPB Morning Edition host Leah Fleming spoke with Georgia poets, Marco Soulo and Signature MiMi, who are expressing through their art what many in the country are feeling. Click to hear how they tap into their voices.
In 2019 the PreachersNSneakers Instagram account started calling attention to famous preachers and their designer clothes. Ben Kirby, the no-longer anonymous person behind the account, has a new book.
