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Updated Tuesday, January 23, 2024-9:30 p.m.
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Awards Oscar nominations 2024: The Snow Society and Robot Dreams, nominated for the Oscar
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The story of a tragedy in the Andes and that of a friendship between a dog and a robot are the Spanish assets to win the Oscars.
They could not be more antagonistic in form and substance and, yet, both share a track in the race for the statuette.
Behind the renowned signature of
JA Bayona
and
Pablo Berger
, hide two works that also share a soul and vocation to thrill:
The Snow Society
and
Robot Dreams
.
A tragedy in the Andes and a friendship between a dog and a robot.
Fascinating.
Bayona is not a novice when it comes to nominations - he is one of the favorite directors of our Film Academy - although he is a novice in those on the other side of the pond.
With
The Impossible
he did not manage to make it among those selected for Best Foreign Film;
Naomi Watts did for the role of her courageous mother.
This year,
The Snow Society
is up for the Oscar in the categories of
Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best International Film
, competing with the Japanese
Perfect Days
and the British
The Zone of Interest
, which is the favorite.
The film could have better luck on the other side: Montse Ribé and David Martí, members of the film's makeup team, already won an award for
Pan's Labyrinth
(2006).
"We are very grateful to the Hollywood Academy. This recognition alone makes us feel very proud, because we compete with very important films," Bayona assures EL MUNDO.
"It is really difficult to get the attention of academics
working in a language other than English
; I think the merit is doubled because it is very difficult to cross this barrier. So I am happy not only for my team, but also for the survivors already the Argentine, Chilean and Uruguayan families who gave us a hand," he continues.
That of Bayonne, with its lights and shadows, with its fuselage buried in the snow and its anthropophagy, is Netflix
's great international bet
in this edition.
This is the first time that a
streaming
platform represents our country in the most relevant awards in the film industry.
With it, he aims to be crowned again in the international category after achieving the first with
Roma
in 2018 and the second with
Without incident on the front
in 2023.
To know more
Oscar Awards 2024.
Oscar nominations 2024: The Snow Society and Robot Dreams, nominated for the Oscar
Editor: RAQUEL R. INCERTIS Madrid
Oscar nominations 2024: The Snow Society and Robot Dreams, nominated for the Oscar
Cinema.
Bayona, on the edge of the impossible: a passionate and chaotic filming, a personal bet and a lot of money at stake
Editor: LUIS MARTÍNEZ Madrid
Bayona, on the edge of the impossible: a passionate and chaotic filming, a personal bet and a lot of money at stake
It's also a first time on the red carpet for Berger, who was passed over in the Best International Film category 11 years ago with
Snow White
.
A film that had the bad luck to coincide in time with two other adaptations of the same story and that arrived a year after the Academy praised another silent and black and white proposal:
The Artist
.
Here is the importance of being at the right time and place.
In reality,
Robot Dreams
, considered
the best animated film of the year according to the European Film Awards
, was a less likely candidate at the Oscars.
The Goyas refused to include it in the main feature film category;
It would have been the first animated film to achieve this and innovations, just the right ones.
Despite the reception it received from American critics, it was not among the top positions in the pools, since Berger was not nominated at either the Golden Globes or the Critic Choice Awards.
It did triumph, however, at the
Annie
Awards - the most prestigious in animated cinema - with five nominations, including Best Independent Film and Best Director.
"Since its premiere in Cannes, the North American media already put us on the lists. We knew that we were among the predictions; of course there
were favorites like
Spider-Man
or
Elemental
, but we hoped that there would be a couple of gaps in the pack and we would find ourselves there "says Berger.
"We have won the lottery, but
the most important thing for a director is that his film is seen
. Hopefully the nomination will help more people go to see
Robot dreams
in all the countries where it has been released and will be released" .
If we remember, Spanish cinema has only been present twice in the Best Animated Film category: in 2011 with
Chico and Rita
,
and in 2020 with
Klaus
, which came very close to snatching the Oscar from
Toy Story 4
.
In fact, Spain repeats this year with
Robot dreams
and
The snow society
the same double of categories that it achieved in 2020 with
Klaus
and
Pain and glory
.
There it is nothing.
"I am very happy to be able to share this news with Bayona, he is a great friend and colleague," says Berger.
"Now the campaign really begins. It's a very difficult game, but we're going to win. I'm going to yell at them 'come and see!'
to all members of the Academy".
Still from 'Robot Dreams', Pablo Berger's Oscar-nominated animated film.
Of the six possible nominations that bookmakers and magazines like
Variety
were targeting , Spain has achieved half.
Penélope Cruz
has been left without the fifth nomination of her career and, therefore, without the possibility of taking the statuette for her supporting role in Michael Mann's more than questioned
Ferrari
.
Nor has his colleague
Pedro Almodóvar
received a nomination for best short film for his
gay
western
Extraña forma de vida
;
As he confirmed with
The Human Voice
, the Oscars do not usually award highly established authors in this category.
Only seven Spanish films have been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Fiction Short category.
None of them emerged victorious.
Thus, Spanish cinema, but especially European cinema, are in luck ahead of the 96th edition of the Oscars.
At the gala, which
will be held next Sunday, March 10
at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles and which will be presented for the fourth time by
Jimmy Kimmel
, not only the regulatory blockbusters will be present.
Sharing the club of five nominations are several titles premiered at the Venice and Cannes festivals, pleasantly appreciated by critics and the public in recent weeks:
The Zone of Interest
,
Anatomy of a Fall
and
Those Who Stay
.
Slow cinema, which is savored.
Cinema that is enjoyed in the privacy of the theater, without fanfare, without macro marketing campaigns or
merchandising
.
We come from the anti-canonical Oscars, where
Parasites
and
Everything at the same time everywhere
brought new ways of making films to the limelight.
Let it remain that way.
However, there are some that are immovable:
Oppenheimer
has received 13 nominations, establishing herself as a favorite.
Among them, the expected ones: Best Film, Best Direction, Best Leading Actor for
Cillian
Murphy
and Best Supporting Actor for
Robert Downey
Jr.
Yorgos Lanthimos' wildly obscene proposal,
Poor Creatures
, has been the big surprise among the nominees, dethroning the
Barbie
phenomenon with 11 nominations compared to eight for
Greta Gerwig
's film .
An unexpected blow: Scorsese has also surpassed it with
The Moon Killers
,
with 10 nominations and is close behind
Maestro
, the Leonard Bernstein biopic directed and starring
Bradley Cooper
, with seven.
Mattel's pseudomatriarchy has not earned Gerwig any nominations, but she did have them with
Ladybird
and
Little Women
.
There has also been no room at the Academy for her doll,
Margot Robbie
.
Ryan Gosling checkmate.
He's kenough
.