From the parallel universes of “Everything Everywhere All At Once” to the tribute to the cinema of “The Fabelmans,” anything can happen at next Sunday’s Oscars, where the options for the Best Picture statuette remain, despite everything, wide open.
Original films released on streaming platforms and critically acclaimed independent films compete for the top prize with the highest-grossing films of the year.
Oscars and breasts are among the favorites
And if before the start of the award season autobiographical film from Steven Spielberg –“Fabelmans”– was a big favorite, now that the voting for the Hollywood Academy is about to end, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is already the main candidate.
Film directed Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert comes with 11 nominations and won a triple at the Producers Guild of Hollywood Awards (PGA), the Directors Guild Awards (DGA Awards) and the Association of film actors of the USA (SAG).
With the exception of “Apollo 13” (1995), all tapes that won these three awards were later awarded as the best movie per Hollywood Academy.
However, experts do not have everything with them to forecast their success, since this fantastic adventure about a family superhero in Parallel universes doesn’t seem to excite most Hollywood Academy veterans.
They will try to conquer that more traditional sector “Fabelmans”a big winner of the Golden Globes and a candidate for an Oscar in 7 categories, an ode to cinematography that has the advantage of bearing Spielberg’s stamp.
Edition with space for surprises
If there is a film that is not a favorite by almost anything, but can win everything, it is “Banshees of Inisherin” (“Almas en Pena de Inisherin”, in Spanish), a film from Martin McDonald which has 9 nominations and was awarded at BAFTA British.
On a small Irish island a few years after World War I unfolds this tragicomedy that shows the complexities of friendship.
Maybe it’s a great cover courtesy of “All Quiet On The Western Front,” German Edward Berger’s film based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel of the same name that recounted the senselessness of the Great War.
Although it would be logical for it to triumph in the category of the best international film, its 9 nominations, a great performance at BAFTA and its reflection in Ukrainian war They put it as one of the most outstanding productions for this edition.
Blockbusters and music: from “Avatar” to Tár”
The shortlist for Best Picture also includes Titles the highest earnings of the year as “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Top Gun: Maverick”which have already placed third and twelfth highest-grossing films in history, with $2.245 and $1.485 million, respectively.
Both lanes James Cameron like joseph kosinski alleviated the lethargy that movie theaters suffered after pandemicbut their real aspirations this year go through categories like best special effects, in which they both compete.
The breakthrough at the box office of the musical biopic was much more modest “Elvis”although its chances of placing as best picture seem as limited as those of the previous two.
The rise and fall into the underworld “King of Rock” skillfully told in this work by Baz Luhrmann, who surprised with 8 Oscar nominations and who hopes to put an end to statuette Best Actor in a Leading Role for Austin Butler.
The drama “Tár” also appears in the musical key, in which the director Todd Field portrays the desire for power or the need to transcend in the shoes of orchestra conductor Lydia Tár, played by Cate Blanchett.
The Australian has won Best Actress in almost every major event of the course and is the only big one recognition which “Tár” looks at with objective possibilities.
Criticism of the system and religious drama, the last contenders
The satire “Triangle of Sorrow” and the religious drama “Women Speak”, which received 3 and 2 Oscar nominations respectively, are the films that completed the list of nominees for the best film.
With the film “Triangle of Sorrow”, director Ruben Östlund criticizes the movement of capitalism. This work, which was not selected to represent Sweden in the Best International Film category, won the Palme d’Or at the last Cannes Film Festival.
In the film “Women Speak”, director Sarah Polley brings to the big screen the plot of the book of the same name by the Canadian Miriam Toews, which narrates the systematic rape of a group of women in a Mennonite village deep in Bolivia.
The Oscars will be held this Sunday, March 12 at dolby theater Los Angeles (USA) its 95th edition.
Source: Panama America
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