Oscars 2021
Daniel Kaluuya wins as Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Kaluuya received the first actor’s Oscar of the evening for “Judas and the Black Messiah”
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Daniel Kaluuya and Yoon Yeo-jeong won the Oscars as “Best Supporting Actor” and “Best Supporting Actress”.
Traditionally, the decisions in the categories “Best Supporting Actor” and Best Supporting Actress “are made relatively early. At the 93rd edition of the Academy Awards on Sunday night, staged by director Steven Soderbergh (58), among others, the traditional order was mixed up. And so something took a while longer than usual before last year’s winner Laura Dern (54) announced the “Best Supporting Actor”.
The nominees were Sacha Baron Cohen (49, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”), Leslie Odom Jr. (39, “One Night in Miami”), Paul Raci (73, “Sound of Metal”) and Keith Stanfield (29) and Daniel Kaluuya (32), both for “Judas and the Black Messiah”. The latter had entered the race as the favorite and lived up to its role. The prize for what was probably the most uncomfortable moment in his mother’s life was won during his acceptance speech when he happily emphasized: “My mother and father had sex and now I’m here!” Then the face of said (and present) lady wandered immediately behind her hands out of sheer shame.
There was a bigger surprise with the supporting actresses. Not Olivia Colman (47, “The Father”) or Glenn Close (74, Hillbilly Elegy) were allowed to pick up the trophy, but Yoon Yeo-jeong (73) for “Minari”. In broken English, the South Korean actress gave a very lovable acceptance speech and immediately asked her laudator Brad Pitt (57) where he had actually been all her life.