After a year of pandemic, this 93rd edition of the Oscars could not be ordinary.
From the charm of a seventy-three-year-old Korean actress to Brad Pitt to the "twerk" of Glenn Close, here are the highlights of the ceremony.
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Lounge atmosphere, the Oscars in cabaret mode
Subdued lighting, a small committee, the guests seated without masks in alcoves and the musician Questlove at the turntables.
Nothing to say, the coronavirus forced the Academy to adapt to give a semblance of normalcy to the event.
Deprived of an official presenter for the third year in a row, and therefore of most of its forced humor or outbursts of voice, the evening seemed muffled, if not weighed down by a year of pandemic.
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Brad Pitt and Youn Yuh-jung, the unlikely Oscar couple
"Mr. Brad Pitt, finally!"
, exclaimed the South Korean actress after the American actor presented her with his statuette of best actress in
Minari
, filmed in the United States.
“Where were you when we were filming in Tulsa, Oklahoma?”
, she continued, earthy as hell, while Brad Pitt laughed.
"It's an honor to meet you"
, slipped this legend of Korean cinema, crowned, at the age of seventy-three, fifty years after having started his career.
The conversation then continued behind the scenes.
Thomas Vinterberg's tribute to his missing daughter
Her film,
Drunk
, was to be the occasion for nineteen-year-old Ida to take her first steps as an actress.
But an accident caused by an inattentive driver claimed his life, four days after filming began.
“We ended up making this film for her, like a monument,”
explained the Danish director, receiving his award for best foreign film, in tears.
“It's a miracle that just happened.
Maybe you pull some strings somewhere.
This is all for you.
Thank you."
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Glenn Close still empty-handed
Eighth nomination and eighth setback for the American actress Glenn Close who, at seventy-four, had yet again impressed with her role of surly grandmother in
An American ode
. The winner of the day, Youn Yuh-jung, who won her the Oscar for best supporting actress, paid tribute to the performer with nearly forty years of career.
"How could I beat Glenn Close?"
, asked the Korean actress.
"I must have been a little luckier than you."
Present Sunday in Los Angeles, the American did not lose the smile and, during an interlude, slipped a spade to
"her friends of the Oscars"
, then began to dance the "twerk", in undulating from the posterior.
Florian Zeller crowned and in love
The forty-one-year-old French author won the Oscar for best adaptation for the screenplay of his first film,
The Father
, based on his play,
Le Père
. By receiving his Oscar, which he shared with his co-writer, Briton Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller paid tribute to Anthony Hopkins, who was crowned best actor on Sunday for his role as father in the film.
“I wrote the script for him,”
he said.
"For me, he's the greatest living actor."
Appearance and furtive kiss at the end of his wife's speech, the actress Marine Delterme, whom Florian Zeller thanks
"for his love and his patience".