Oscars 2021 live: Nomadland wins best picture – as it happened

25 Apr 202118.57 EDT

Stuart Heritage

OK, one more hour of this and then the Oscars will actually start. We can do this.

25 Apr 202118.50 EDT

Stuart Heritage

I have changed my mind. Alan Kim’s commitment to shuffling around on the red carpet like a little robot has made him my new favourite person.

25 Apr 202118.50 EDT

Hannah Marriott

Chloé Zhao

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The best director front runner Chloé Zhao has spent most awards ceremonies beaming in on Zoom from her living room wearing plaid shirts and T-shirts. Excellent to see that she didn’t let the heavy-handed Oscars dress code memo divert her too far from her usual style. Her trainers look excellent here, with her neat Greta plaits and an oyster-coloured sweater dress, one of many red carpet roll necks so far. Hers is by Hermes, apparently. Never has an Oscars red carpet looked so cosy.

25 Apr 202118.48 EDT

Stuart Heritage

Chloe Zhao appears to be wearing a knitted dress. I’m 90% sure she wore dungarees to the Baftas. This woman’s commitment to comfort at any cost has made her my new favourite person.

25 Apr 202118.46 EDT

Stuart Heritage

We are now looking at how Viola Davis’s red carpet style has evolved throughout the years. This is because there are no famous people in attendance this year and in retrospect making a three-hour television programme about this red carpet is an absolute madness.

25 Apr 202118.45 EDT

Morwenna Ferrier

Mikkel EG Nielsen

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Menswear is steamrolling the red carpet this year. Take the Danish editor who sees your dress code, Oscars, and raises you this: a wide-legged tuxedo that could be Hermès, Balenciaga or Bottega Veneta, a cream shirt, no tie, too-long cuffs, and barely visible heeled shoes. Stellar effort from the Sound of Metal men so far.

25 Apr 202118.28 EDT

Morwenna Ferrier

Glenn Close

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Safe, staid, glam. Eight-time nominee Glenn Close is wearing Armani Prive (as is her wont) – but she’s also the first nominee to wear PPE on the red carpet. The leather gloves, made by Armani, are in homage to the designer’s late mother and her tunic is made from silk, organza and mesh. It also took a meagre three weeks to stitch together. She also just admitted to keeping all her character’s T-shirts, jeans and Nikes in a library. That’s a lot to take in.

25 Apr 202118.26 EDT

Stuart Heritage

Wait, no, she just said “piss” on the red carpet. Please preserve this woman in amber.

25 Apr 202118.25 EDT

Stuart Heritage

Yuh-Jung Youn is on the red carpet now. Last time she spoke in public, she called all British people “snobs”. She’s being a little more conservative this time around, saying that everyone has heard of the Oscars and the Minari cast all rented an Airbnb together. Maybe she’s saving the good stuff for the acceptance speech.

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25 Apr 202118.24 EDT

Hannah Marriott

Leslie Odom Jr and Nicolette Robinson

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Quite a look from Leslie Odom Jr here – part Tinman, part Oscars statuette, and pretty advanced styling, what with the slim polo neck layered under the gold shirt. It’s all by Brioni and serves as further proof that the days in which men wore nothing but penguin suits on the red carpet are waning. His wife, Nicolette Robinson, who clearly looks incredible, told red carpet reporters that this is their first night out of sick-stained sweatpants since having a baby four weeks ago. They scrub up well.