What's news: Oscar winners and snubs, Netflix had the most wins but a most traditional studio took home the top prize, the Oscar producers gamble for the end of the show came up short, representation was strong in behind-the-scenes awards but less so for on-camera categories, details on the pandemic protocols, Chloe Zhao's victory met with silence in China, analyzing the "out-there" production decisions. Plus: Mortal Kombat slays the box office, Scott Rudin resigns from the Broadway League, and SNL books Elon Musk. --Alex Weprin

The 93rd Academy Awards were handed out Sunday night from Union Station in Los Angeles, with remote locations at the show's traditional home at Hollywood's Dolby Theater, and in London, Paris, and elsewhere. It was, as one might imagine, an Oscars unlike any other...

The winners by the numbers...

--By Film: Nomadland: 3 wins... The Father, Soul, Sound of Metal, and Judas and the Black Messiah,: 2 wins each... Mank, Promising Young Woman, Tenet, Minari, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: 1 win each... 

--By studio: Netflix, 7 wins... The Walt Disney Co.: 5 wins... Warner Bros.: 3 wins... Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures: 2 wins each... Focus Features and A24: 1 win each...

The complete list of winners at the 93rd Oscars...

►Netflix had the most wins, but the night's biggest prize went to one of the most traditional of studios. "On a night in which Netflix led all studios with 35 Oscar nominations, traditional distributors had the last laugh, as Searchlight's Nomadland landed the top prize," Tatiana Siegel writes. "In perhaps a dig at the streamers, whose success has put pressure on theater owners and eroded the cinematic experience, the film's Frances McDormand urged everyone to see Nomadland 'on the largest screen possible.' She added, 'And one day, very, very soon, take everyone you know into a theater, shoulder-to-shoulder in that dark space, and watch every film that's represented here tonight.'" The recap.

+The snubs: Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Glenn Close and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm were among the nominees that were shut out. The snubs list.

►Let's talk about how the show ended. The show's producers, Steven Soderbergh, Stacey Sher and Jesse Collins told THR's Rebecca Keegan before the broadcast that “We've mixed up the sequencing of the awards in a way that is hopefully surprising.” What that meant in practice was that Best Picture, traditionally the last award handed out, was instead handed out before the top acting awards, with Best Actor saved for last. It was a move that appeared designed to save what was seen as a likely posthumous win for Chadwick Boseman for the very end of the show. However, Anthony Hopkins ended up with a surprising win. So surprising that he did not attend. And so, the Oscars ended abruptly with a headshot of Hopkins, and presenter Joaquin Phoenix accepting the award on his behalf, before the credts rolled...

--"The plan was to manipulate all of us with a heart-rending ending and they got owned for it," Kim Masters tweeted. In case you are wondering, the last time Best Picture wasn't the last award was in 1972, and yes, Boseman's widow was in attendance and prepared to give a speech...

--In a brief video posted to his Instagram Monday, The Father star, who is currently in his native Wales, acknowledged his win and gave the acceptance speech he wasn't able to on Sunday evening and he made a point of paying tribute to Boseman. "Good morning, here I am in my homeland of Wales and at 83-years-of-age I did not expect to get this award. I really didn't," Hopkins said, with the beautiful Welsh countryside as a backdrop. "I am grateful to the Academy and thank you. I want to pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman who was taken from us far too early, and again, thank you all very much. I really did not expect this, so I feel very privileged and honored. Thank you," he added. More.

+The best and worst moments: From a beautiful, theatrical opening to Frances McDormand howling like a wolf, from Emerald Fennell citing Zack Morris to Glenn Close doing "Da Butt" (it was scripted, sadly), here are the most memorable moments.

►COVID-19 protocols: A new location, socially distanced seating and nominees appearing remotely were just some of the pandemic-inspired elements at the 2021 Oscars. Attendees were tested (and in many cases likely vaccinated), and masks were won when not on camera. And the Oscars used the station's outdoor courtyards as places where nominees can mingle before and after the show, with the ABC preshow taking place in the courtyard as nominees stopped to talk to hosts Lil Rel Howery and Ariana DeBose as others milled about in a cocktail-party setting. More.

►How'd the Oscars do on diversity? "#OscarsSoWhite was coined by April Reign in 2015 to describe the lack of diversity among the 20 acting nominees, but when it came to inclusion at the 2021 Oscars, it was categories behind the camera that saw multiple milestones take place," Rebecca Sun writes, noting that Chloe Zhao, Travon Free, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson all made history for their work. "Going into the ceremony, there was a real possibility that the Oscars could see four non-white acting winners for the first time ever. But in the end, actors of color prevailed only in the supporting categories." The story.

--Sun also put together her own "by the numbers" list: White men: 25, White women: 8, Black men: 4, Black women*: 4, Latino men: 2, Latina women: 1, Asian women*: 3 (2x winner Chloe Zhao is counted once),  *H.E.R. is counted in both categories...

►Other Oscars news notes: Nomadland became the lowest-grossing film at the domestic box office to walk away with Oscars' top prize — best picture. The history-making statistic wasn't a surprise, considering that theaters across the North America were closed for more than a year, including during the heart of awards season, forcing distributors to rely on hybrid theatrical and in-home releases... Two Netflix shorts that address gun violence were honored Sunday. "Today the police will kill three people, and tomorrow the police will kill three people... because on average the police in America every day kill three people, which amounts to about a thousand people a year. And those people are disproportionately Black people," Travon Free said... More on the backlash to the Boseman snub...

►Scott Feinberg's analysis: "How Chadwick lost, Frances won and the show went off the rails." "I can only assume that the producers insisted upon and the Academy granted them final-cut, and the producers, recognizing that nothing could stop this from being the lowest-rated Oscars in history, decided to try out a bunch of out-there stuff: not only not having a host (for the third year in a row), but also having no comedy bits, music performances or film clips; giving a biographical sketch of virtually every nominee; waiting until deep into the show to present a highly-anticipated award; presenting not one but two Jean Hersholt humanitarian awards on the air; not playing off any longwinded acceptance speeches; and presenting best picture as the third-to-last award of the night, rather than the last." The analysis.

►Daniel Fienberg's critic's notebook: The producers "talked a big game and this was not every other Oscars telecast. Give me the choice between Sunday's Oscars and a failed quarantine-standard telecast like the Golden Globes and I'm gonna go with Soderbergh every single time," Fienberg writes, but the ending was nonetheless a bitter pill to swallow. "I see why Soderbergh and company went the way they did. It was the decision of a consummate gambler. It didn't work. That, I'm afraid, is how the 93rd Academy Awards telecast is likely to be remembered." The notebook.

+How Nomadland became the film of our moment. Robyn Bahr breaks down the film, writing that "Nomadland is rich enough in textures and emotions to resonate broadly following such a dysphoric year. After months and months of sequestering at home, viewers may simply have longed for the film's crisp breezes and lyrical twilights. Maybe even its nonconformist Easy Rider-inspired mythos. But on a deeper level, Zhao taps into fears for our future, the truths of isolation and the horrors of watching the life you built for yourself crumble in an instant." The notebook.

►Chloé Zhao's Oscars glory met with media silence in China. Beijing's censorship apparatus has been suppressing the filmmaker's award season victories ever since nationalistic internet sleuths unearthed an old interview she gave in which she made a passing remark that was interpreted as critical of her home country, Patrick Brzeski writes. Official state media largely ignored her win.

--"One of the exceedingly rare pieces of coverage, on private news site 163.com, actually used the occasion of her victory as an opportunity to not-so-subtly assert one of China's most important — and contentious — geopolitical priorities. The two-line article stated that Zhao had become 'the second Chinese filmmaker to win the best director Oscar, after Ang Lee.' The convention of both the Oscars and the world always has been to regard Lee, who was born and raised in southern Taiwan, as a Taiwanese filmmaker, not mainland Chinese." The story.

The ongoing pandemic meant that the party scene was shall we say... restrained... this year. Though there were likely private parties at people's homes, the public and semi-public events were either severely pared back, or virtual. Likewise, while there was a red carpet at Union Station, the fashion scene was also subdued...

+Best dressed: Laurie Brookins breaks down the looks from the pared-down red carpet. "The arrivals at L.A.’s Union Station are highlighting plenty of bold colors and glamorous details. Early on red gowns dominated the red carpet..." The list.

+Inside Elton John's first-ever virtual Oscar viewing party: "It's a pain," Elton John quipped to host Neil Patrick Harris during the early moments of the music legend's first-ever virtual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party on Sunday night. John was describing how it felt to pivot the 29th annual affair from an in-person, glamour-drenched fundraiser to a streaming event due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It's become an all too familiar sentiment over the past 13 months and one shared by many event producers but still, John was quick to walk back the comment and clarify... I wish we could be there. It's more fun to be there," he said in reference to typical plans that would've found him at center stage inside a custom structure built on West Hollywood Park grounds. "This is the only way we could do it." The story.

+A special virtual edition of the annual "Night Before" extravaganza raised nearly $2 million for the Motion Picture & Television Fund on Saturday night with help Gary Oldman, Andra Day, Renée Zellweger and many more. Here's what happened.

►Box office: Reflecting the pent-up demand to see new movies on the big screen, the weekend box office saw a spirited — and unexpected battle — between Mortal Kombat and Japanese anime pic Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train. Warner Bros.' Mortal Kombat topped the North American chart with $22.5 million from 3,073 locations, while Aniplex and Fumination's Demon Slayer followed with an estimated $19.5 million from 1,605 sites. That's by far the biggest domestic debut of all time for a foreign-language film. (Demon's per screen average was a hefty $12,188.) The numbers.

►Scott Rudin will resign from the Broadway League. The producer revealed his resignation from the national trade association as well as apologized for his behavior in a statement to the New York Times on Saturday. "I know apologizing is not, by any means, enough," Rudin told the Times. "In stepping back, I intend to work on my issues and do so fully aware that many will feel that this is too little and too late." The story.

►Tom Llamas is rejoining NBC News. The former weekend anchor for ABC World News will be senior national correspondent for NBC, and will anchor a new primetime show on the company's streaming service NBC News Now. "Tom is already a familiar name, and colleague, to many of you. In fact, he and I worked side-by-side 20 years ago as producers at MSNBC, so I can attest to the passion, dedication, and talent he is so well-known for in this industry," NBC News president Noah Oppenheim wrote to staff Monday...

►Clubhouse is beginning to strike significant media deals. And its first one is a doozy. The National Football League is partnering with Clubhouse to exclusively produce a lineup of programming during the 2021 NFL Draft. Beginning April 26, the NFL will host a series of rooms in Clubhouse, the social media app which is audio-based, invite-only and free to download — such as a pre-draft assessment of the prospective players, Draft debriefs, a conversation with the University of Alabama's football team alumni, and more. Athletes, coaches and network personalities will be involved. More.

In other news...

--Tesla CEO Elon Musk will host Saturday Night Live's May 8 episode with Miley Cyrus as the musical guest.

--The first trailer for West Side Story danced its way to the Oscars Sunday night.

--Marty Bauer, co-founder of the United Talent Agency, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 74.

--Hip-hop legend and actor Earl "DMX" Simmons was celebrated on Saturday by family and close friends with a musical-filled memorial held at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

What else we're reading...

--"NBC’s news chief pushes streaming and bets on post-Trump story lines" [WSJ]

--"Volatile and vengeful: How Scott Rudin wielded power in show business" [NY Times]

--"Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands" [Axios]

--"How local TV stations plan to remain relevant as viewers shift to streaming" [CNBC]

Today's birthdays: Channing Tatum, 41, Jet Li, 58, Carol Burnett, 88, Melania Trump, 51, John Isner, 36.