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Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/April 25 to May 1, 2021

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Prepared with commentary by igordebraga and Kingsif

⭠ Last week's report


As usual, the Academy Awards brought in many views and entries, though not as dominating given it was not easy for film fans, let alone the average person, to follow the movies in these terrible, disease-ridden days. There are also articles related to mixed martial arts and media available on streaming services.

Rank Article Class Views Image Notes/about
1 93rd Academy Awards   1,571,338   The goddamned pandemic derailed the film industry, yet AMPAS still decided to award the best productions of 2020 (and early 2021). One of the major jibes before the ceremony got started was its choice of main location, a train station (pictured), and it only got worse from there. The Oscars, adamantly refusing to use Zoom (or similar) after the less than successful early awards ceremonies, was in-person only, though they added hubs in London and Paris so nominees that didn't want to (or, couldn't) go to Los Angeles could attend. It certainly felt more like the Golden Globes in a normal year with its audience at tables and such. Except they weren't drunk, nor particularly excited. The screen ban also meant there were no clips played before categories, and both the hosts and the In Memoriam seemed to be rushing to get home. So, between the average moviegoer having not seen the nominees and and a fairly uninteresting ceremony, it translated into the lowest ratings ever.
2 Mortal Kombat (2021 film)   1,563,890   24 years after the disastrous Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, the ultraviolent fighting game series returned to theaters (and HBO Max) giving everything fans hoped for, namely lots of people punching each other, good special effects, mostly accurate portrayals of their beloved characters, and dialogue featuring things such as "Fatality!", "Flawless Victory!" and "GET OVER HERE!" Hence Mortal Kombat already recouped its $55 million budget even with not as many screens available.
3 Nomadland (film)   1,449,019   One of the weirdest things in #1 was that the top category, Best Picture, was the third-to-last instead of the big prize at the end. Its winner was the adaptation of a non-fiction book about a woman who decides to spend her days living in a van down by the river vandwelling. Two of the producers winning this prize also took home Best Director (#10) and Actress (#8).
4 Rohit Sardana   1,331,967 From Hollywood to India, where a local TV anchor died at just 41 from a heart attack.
5 2021 NFL Draft   1,309,263   American football got its latest college athletes, with the Jacksonville Jaguars using their #1 pick on Trevor Lawrence.
6 Shadow and Bone   1,267,141   Netflix has released a new series adapting a fantasy novel by Leigh Bardugo (pictured), following Alina Starkov (played by #25) as she discovers she has the power to set her country free from the fold, a perpetually dark, barren strip of land cutting the country in two.
7 Shadow and Bone (TV series)   1,134,244
8 Frances McDormand   983,409   Best Actress at #1 came to this talented thespian for #3, a near-record third time (only behind Katherine Hepburn's four; counting the Supporting category, she now has as many Oscars as Meryl Streep!), following a pregnant policewoman from the middle of nowhere (where the director was husband Joel Coen) and an angry mother exploiting outdoor advertisement. McDormand also got a second statuette as the film's co-producer, and celebrated that win by howling! Here she's pictured with a different award she won thrice.
9 Deaths in 2021   960,124   Given the In Memoriam at #1 (speedily) used this song:
Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea (Always)
Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream
10 Chloé Zhao   925,572   For only the second time, Best Director went to a woman, the one responsible for #3. And Ms. Zhao's next movie will certainly show if she can do action as well as fellow winner Kathryn Bigelow, namely Marvel's Eternals.
11 Anthony Hopkins   787,853   The most questionable choice at #1 was deciding to close the ceremony in the main acting categories, both of whom went to veterans who already had Oscars at home. After #8, it was time for Hannibal Lecter, who didn't want to leave his homeland of Wales to attend the ceremony, where at the age of 83 he would've gotten his second award playing a patriarch suffering from dementia in The Father (#13). Hopkins released his acceptance speech the following day.
12 Kamaru Usman   663,965 A UFC fighter. I assume he's involved with the fight that's featured this week.
13 The Father (2020 film)   644,145   Winner of Best Actor (#11) and Best Adapted Screenplay, which as Honest Trailers summed up: "Anthony Hopkins gives the performance of a lifetime, as an old man refusing help for the dementia that's slowly eating away at his mind, that's such a heartbreaking, torturous, and cruel portrayal of a legend's final days, there's no way you actually watched it. Nuh-uh! No! This year's been hard enough!"
14 List of Mortal Kombat characters   618,572   A bunch of fighting game characters who in every fight are subject to bleeding gallons with every hit and having their bones shattered. #2 has some of them, including a cold ninja, a fiery ninja, a Bruce Lee clone, a guy with killer headwear, a thief who might not have heart but will take it from adversaries, a Green Beret that could moonlight as a model, an electric deity, a handicapped soldier and a woman with nasty teeth - and yet the protagonist is an original character due to studio imposition.
15 Rose Namajunas   596,101 Another UFC fighter? Boy is wrestling getting popular.
16 Noel Clarke   576,119   Speaking of #1, at its British counterpart held two weeks earlier, Clarke won an honorary award. That he lost this week, as well as all of his current and future projects (the final episode of a TV show he leads was canceled on-the-day) due to a lot of allegations of professional and sexual misconduct. One wonders if Adam Deacon feels vindicated right now.
17 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier   574,449   The second Marvel Cinematic Universe show on Disney+ didn't set this report on fire like predecessor WandaVision, but hangs on for another week. Next up in June is Loki, exploring how the time travel shenanigans of Avengers: Endgame made possible for a dead character to have more adventures. Or we all like Tom Hiddleston too much, though Twitter has plenty of opinions about Sebastian Stan.
18 Charles Sobhraj   558,674   Sobhraj continues to rank highly after a TV series dramatising his crimes and capture, The Serpent, started streaming on Netflix. The show's name is based on one of his nicknames, a wise decision by the BBC not to name it after another nickname. "The Bikini Killer"? Not quite the same effect.
19 Elizabeth II   531,941
 
 HM's presence on this list is almost as long as her reign. It was one of her birthdays recently, which might have scored a few extra views.
20 UFC 261   524,561   Fighting. Since we mention Jacksonville in #5, it's worth to say this also happened there, because apparently Florida cares more about sport than slowing the spread.
21 Invincible (TV series)   491,665   Prime Video's animated adaptation of a very kid-unfriendly superhero comic closed its first season, and has already been renewed for more.
22 Michael Collins (astronaut)   491,110   The least famous member of Apollo 11 (and the only one to not walk on the Moon, as he remained orbiting the satellite in the Command module Columbia) died at the age of 90.
23 Promising Young Woman   482,710   The rape and revenge film is updated for the MeToo era as Carey Mulligan avenges her dead raped friend, in this Best Picture nominee which took home Best Original Screenplay at #1. Mulligan's article, less that of the movie, has been hovering around just below the top 25 for a few weeks now, following an endearing SNL appearance and omission from nomination at the BAFAs.
24 Chadwick Boseman   475,789   The decision to close #1 on Best Actor was probably hoping to finish the Oscars awarding Black Panther a posthumous Best Actor prize for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. So what an anti-climax for the ceremony's producers when Odin (#11) won instead - and wasn't even there to collect the award, very abruptly ending the show. A little later, though, Hopkins made sure to give Boseman a shout out, and the late actor's family said that it was no big deal not winning the Oscar.
25 Jessie Mei Li   475,525   The British star of #7. Next for her is Edgar Wright's next movie, Last Night in Soho.
Other Oscar tidbits


 
Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (April 25 to May 1, 2021)

Exclusions edit

  • This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more) because they are very likely to be automated views based on our experience and research of the issue. Please feel free to discuss any removal on the talk page if you wish.
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