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Oscars 2021: 21 Things You Might Have Missed

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Oscars organisers can officially breathe a sigh of relief – the awards ceremony is over for another year, and it actually all went rather smoothly.

After a few tweaks to the usual show due to the pandemic, the Academy Awards ended up being quite a serious affair in 2021, with a number of nominees and presenters using the platform to speak out about issues that were close to their heart.


There were a fair few lighthearted moments, too, including an impromptu shout-out to an 80s heart-throb, an all-round brilliant speech from Daniel Kaluuya and some unexpected booty-shaking from a certain eight-time nominee.

And of course, it wouldn’t be the Oscars without a bit of controversy, with a lot of viewers voicing their upset about the final award of the night.

Here are 21 things you might have missed from this year’s Academy Awards, for those who didn’t feel like staying up to watch it all play out live...

1. Paul Raci was the first star on the red carpet and he made sure to make a big impression

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At 73 years old, the Sound Of Metal actor has just been nominated for his first Academy Award. He and his wife Liz Hanley Raci made sure they enjoyed their first time at the Oscars, posing up a storm for photographers on their way into the event.

2. Glenn Close gave us her own take on Hollywood glamour (as always)

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What we love about this ensemble is that the gloves are both glamorous and – considering we’re in a pandemic – extremely functional.

3. Can we talk about Celeste’s outfit for a second?

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A red carpet moment we don’t think we’ve seen nearly enough people talking about is the fact that Celeste – nominated for her contribution to the Trial Of The Chicago 7 soundtrack – made her way into the event while holding a bedazzled human heart.

The Brits are only a few weeks away now, and we’ll be keeping an eye out for what Celeste wears to that.

4. Oh, and Carey Mulligan came dressed as a literal Oscar

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The Promising Young Woman star was dressed in head-to-toe gold, which was especially fitting as she was in the running for Best Actress this year.

5. We have to say, though, our favourite look of the night was H.E.R.’s

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More excitingly than being named our best dressed star, the singer-songwriter won her first Oscar during this year’s broadcast, picking up Best Original Song for her song Fight For You, which was featured in Judas And The Black Messiah.

6. This clip of Riz Ahmed fixing his wife’s hair got a lot of love on Twitter


RIZ AHMED FIXING HIS WIFE'S HAIR ??? #Oscarshttps://t.co/Fh6A1RDRIkpic.twitter.com/Fq39TIWaf3

— E! News (@enews) April 25, 2021

I will never forgive E! for cutting away from this adorable moment between Riz Ahmed and his wife Fatima Farheen Mirza!!!! #Oscarspic.twitter.com/3cccLyuHTv

— Kathleen Newman-Bremang (@KathleenNB) April 25, 2021

I need someone to look at me like Best Actor nominee Riz Ahmed looks at his wife Fatima Farheen Mirza! #Oscarspic.twitter.com/DjY9T8Oz9h

— Nancy Wang Yuen 王嵐芝 (@nancywyuen) April 25, 2021

Riz Ahmed fixes wife Fatima Farheen Mirza’s hair on the #Oscars red carpet. pic.twitter.com/NQxnKCLnYd

— Film Updates (@TheFilmUpdates) April 25, 2021

I wish us all a very “Riz Ahmed Fixing Our Hair for the Perfect Pic” kinda love pic.twitter.com/DKAiuXNUXR

— Manna Sidhu (@manna_sidhu) April 26, 2021

7. As did this clip of Viola Davis pretending to take a shot


Someone give Viola Davis an Oscar just for this performance of her pretending to take a shot https://t.co/aXVTwTSRna#Oscarspic.twitter.com/NJdHuQJxkF

— Variety (@Variety) April 25, 2021

8. Regina King’s powerful opening speech set the mood for what was ultimately a fairly serious evening


“It has been quite a year, and we are still smack-dab in the middle of it. We are mourning the loss of so many,” last year’s Best Supporting Actress winner began.

Paying her respects to George Floyd, Regina continued: “I have to be honest, if things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis, I might have traded my heels for marching boots.

“I know many of you want to reach for your remote when you feel Hollywood is preaching to you, but as the mother of a Black son who fears for his safety, no fame or fortune changes that.”


Regina King at the #Oscars: “I know that a lot of you at home want to reach for your remote when you feel like Hollywood is preaching to you but as a mother of a Black son, I know the fear that so many live with and no amount of fame or fortune changes that." pic.twitter.com/bFK1CibK4D

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 26, 2021

9. Emerald Fennell gave an unlikely shout-out in her Oscars speech


One of the first awards of the evening was Best Original Screenplay, which went to Promising Young Woman writer Emerald Fennell.

Claiming she hadn’t prepared a speech, Emerald said she’d only written one in her life when she was just 10 years old.


"They said write a speech, and I didn't—because I just didn't think this would ever happen."

Emerald Fennell wins the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Promising Young Woman." https://t.co/sdgeoBK7lX#Oscarspic.twitter.com/g5dOPwsQ7O

— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2021

“I had a look to see if there was anything useful from it,” she joked. “But it mostly thanked Zack Morris from Saved By The Bell, my very supportive husband.

“Unfortunately, he hasn’t been as much a part of my life as I’d hoped, and so that speech is not that useful.”

10 Daniel Kaluuya acceptance speech paid tribute to the real Fred Hampton and made a candid reference to his conception


His mum and sister’s reaction to it all was… quite something, too.


Daniel Kaluuya’s mum muttering “what is he talking about” is already the highlight of the night. What a queen pic.twitter.com/0QKfnC6rMJ

— Liv Marks (@OliviaLilyMarks) April 26, 2021

11. As well as being nominated for an award, Riz Ahmed presented the prize for Best Sound


We don’t really have much else to say on the matter other than… “hi, Riz Ahmed”.


It doesn't get better than that! Sound Of Metal’s Best Sound win announced by its star, Riz Ahmed. #Oscarspic.twitter.com/yKAsFe4Kts

— etalk (@etalkCTV) April 26, 2021

12. Tyler Perry gave an impassioned speech about “refusing hate”

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Collecting an award for his humanitarian work, the US actor said: “In this time, with all of the internet and social media and algorithms that want us to think a certain way. The 24-hour news cycle. It’s my hope that we teach our kids, refuse hate. Don’t hate anybody.

“I refuse to hate someone because they’re Mexican or because they are Black or white. Or [LGBTQ]. I refuse to hate someone because they’re a police officer or because they’re Asian. I would hope we would refuse hit hate.”

13. It’s hard to pick a favourite part of Youn Yuh-jung’s acceptance speech, to be honest​


Was it her putting everyone in their place about mispronouncing her name all the way through awards season? Was it her brief flirtation with Brad Pitt? Or maybe it was the iconic line: “[My] two boys make me go out and work. This [Oscar] is the result because mummy worked so hard!”


Youn Yuh-jung’s #Oscars acceptance speech for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Minari ? pic.twitter.com/5xFeU35183

— Film Updates (@TheFilmUpdates) April 26, 2021

14. Chloé Zhao delivered a rousing speech after making Oscars history


The Nomadland filmmaker is the first woman of colour – and only the second woman in history – to be awarded Best Director at the Academy Awards.

On stage, she spoke about finding the goodness in ourselves and others, drawing from classic Chinese poems and texts from her childhood.


"I have always found goodness in the people I met everywhere I went in the world. So this is for anyone who has the faith and the courage to hold onto the goodness and themselves, and...in each other."

Watch Chloé Zhao's Best Director acceptance speech: https://t.co/sdgeoBK7lXpic.twitter.com/Q7oQYJgjh5

— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2021

“People at birth are inherently good,” she said after reciting the phrase in Chinese. “Those six letters had such an impact on me when I was a kid and I still truly believe them today.

“Even though it might sometimes seem like the opposite is true, I have always found goodness in the people I’ve met everywhere I went in the world.”

15 The Oscar songs trivia game delivered a few notable moments, first when Andra Day swore...


When asked whether she thought Prince’s Purple Rain had won an Oscar, Andra Day told Lil Rel Howery: “I mean, it’s an awesome song – so it probably wasn’t nominated, and that’s some bullshit.”


Andra Day did NOT come to the #Oscars to play trivia. pic.twitter.com/zmgmbedoD3

— Decider (@decider) April 26, 2021

For the US broadcast, the moment was censored just in time, and fortunately for Andra, something else then happened to take the heat off her a little bit.

16 ...and then when Glenn Close got up and danced to Da Butt (a song she knew more about than anyone could have predicted)




Will we ever fully recover from this? Who knows, to be honest.

17. The In Memoriam segment was… fast


Immediately after Glenn Close booty-shaking to Da Butt, the Oscars cut to an ad break, after which Angela Bassett introduced the In Memoriam section, paying tribute to those who had died in the past year.

However, many felt that the sequence felt rushed compared to previous years, particularly in light of how long had been spent on the Oscars trivia game just minutes earlier.


That In Memoriam segment was running at 1.5x speed after that song trivia comedy bit played at 0.5x speed, baffling series of events

— Alex Bonilla (@AlexBonilla_OVA) April 26, 2021

really love to speed read the names of the dead

— David (@randomfurlong) April 26, 2021

What an absolutely bizarre way to do the In Memoriam. You literally couldn’t even read a lot of those names before they were gone. Maybe we could have cut 30 seconds from trivia? #Oscars

— Linda Holmes Thinks You're Doing Great (@lindaholmes) April 26, 2021

I figured the trivia segment was to vamp because the show was coming in short. Then we got the In Memoriam at hyperspeed, and the show's not going to end on time, anyway. Yeesh.

— Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall) April 26, 2021

Maybe cut ~4 minutes out of the Trivia bit so that the In Memoriam doesn’t give my eyeballs whiplash ty

— Harry Wood (@harrymwood) April 26, 2021

It was also pointed out that Glee star Naya Rivera and Arrested Development’s Jessica Walter – both of whom had many big-screen credits in their lifetime – were absent from the tributes.

18. Rita Moreno never fails to deliver

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“West Side Story went on to win 10 competitive Oscars,” she said while introducing Best Picture. “The most important of which was Best Supporting Actress.”

Truly iconic behaviour.

19. Frances McDormand had us really excited to go back to the cinema


As a producer on Nomadland, she joined Chloé Zhao on stage when the film was awarded Best Picture.

“Please watch our movie on the largest screen possible,” she urged viewers. “And one day take everyone you know into a theatre, that dark space, and watch every film that’s represented here tonight.”

The speech ended with an energetic howl from Frances, a tribute to Nomadland sound mixer Michael Wolf Snyder, who died last month.


Howl like the wolf you are Frances McDormand howl! @nomadlandfilm wins best picture #Oscarspic.twitter.com/8ZV2zUOU1P

— ☀ stevie wong ☀ (@wongie1) April 26, 2021

20. The three acting winners in attendance later posed for this fantastic photo backstage

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We're going to be honest, we'd give quite a hefty amount to know what this lot were laughing at.

21. Oh and there was quite a bit of upset when Chadwick Boseman didn’t win Best Actor


Because the Best Actor category was moved to the end of the live broadcast, many assumed his performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom had earned Chadwick Boseman a posthumous win for Best Actor.

This turned out not to be the case, with Sir Anthony Hopkins getting the award instead, following his leading role in The Father.


BREAKING: Anthony Hopkins wins the Academy Award for Best Actor. https://t.co/sdgeoBK7lX#Oscarspic.twitter.com/juaMIYpCLN

— ABC News (@ABC) April 26, 2021

Adding to the furore on Twitter was the fact that the 83-year-old didn’t attend the Oscars, meaning the ceremony ended with an award being accepted by the Academy on a winner’s behalf.

Suffice to say, people had a lot of thoughts:


Having a big finale that was always going to involve Joaquin Phoenix and either the late Chadwick Boseman or an absent Anthony Hopkins was surely not the greatest idea.

— James King (@jameskingmovies) April 26, 2021

We don’t need the Academy to celebrate Chadwick Boseman. We are celebrating Chadwick and his tremendous performance regardless. #Oscars#Oscars2021pic.twitter.com/2q5RuBWIgj

— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) April 26, 2021

An absent Anthony Hopkins winning over Chadwick Boseman during a ceremony built to end around a Boseman win while Joaquin Phoenix awkwardly stumbles through it all is...wow. Chaos!

— Jacob Hall (@JacobSHall) April 26, 2021

If there was one award that was a sure thing in my lifetime, it was Chadwick Boseman winning tonight.

Joaquin Phoenix: Winner is Anthony Hopkins. He’s not here. Goodnight everyone.

Wait, what?

— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) April 26, 2021

all that for joaquin phoenix to be like “anthony hopkins. alright byeeeee”

— The Rebel Reviewer (@RebelliousRevi1) April 26, 2021

That’s why you end with Best Picture. I think it takes away from Nomadland and Hopkins honestly because the changed order felt like a bait and switch when everyone was expecting a Chadwick Boseman tribute at the end.

— Richard Newby (@RICHARDLNEWBY) April 26, 2021

Oscars 2021​

 
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