Key Oscar takeaways: ‘Nomadland’ wins big as Hollywood looks to rebound from pandemic

In this video image, Frances McDormand accepts the best picture award for 'Nomadland' as director Chloe Zhao looks on at the Oscars. Photo: ABC

Capping a year that few in Hollywood will forget, much as they might want to, the 93rd Oscars ceremony delivered an impassioned message that, while the movies may be down, they are far from out.

As expected, the motion picture academy gave the best picture prize to director Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, a quietly poetic character study about economically displaced Americans.