Oscar 2021: it did not close with the best picture award for the first time in 50 years

04/26/2021 5:10 AM

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Updated 04/26/2021 5:46 AM

The great surprise of the Oscar Awards ceremony this Sunday was at the end, since by

the first time in 50 years it

did not close with the distinction for best film.

In a decision that until now has had no explanations, it was decided that the award that finally went to

Nomadland would

not be the last

, but that the gala would culminate with the awards for the best protagonists.

Even

Nomadland

producer Dan Janvey

expressed his bewilderment at what he considered

"a surprise

.

"

"Many of us grew up watching the Oscars and

have gotten used

to it being the last," he said, referring to the award his film won.

Many thought that the change was going to be to close with the award of the late Chadwick Boseman, to give an emotional blow.

But finally Anthony Hopkins, who did not even appear through a screen, won for his role in

The Father

.

The last time, in 1971

In

17 of the first 20

Academy Awards ceremonies, the cherry on top was not the best movie.

They took turns at that spot on the schedule for the Honorary Oscars, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and, as it happened this Sunday, the best performances.

According to the specialized site Entertainment Weekly, in

1948

the new order was established with the awarding in the last turn of the film

Hamlet

, by Laurence Olivier, which in turn was the first produced outside of Hollywood to win the statuette.

From there,

the plans

were only

altered in 1971

, when the last distinguished was Charles Chaplin with an honorary award.

It was a year before the movie legend won his first Oscar in official competition.

In 1972, the actor with the famous little mustache who was born with silent films and then masterfully adapted to new technologies, won for his role in

Candilejas

, a 1952 film, but who participated that year because it had not previously been screened in Los Angels

In the absence of the official explanation, after a very particular night in which many of the great attractions that the ceremony usually offers were missing, many believe that it was a

nod to the beginnings of the Oscars

, with their dinners, which this year had a parallel at the banquet held at the State Union.

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