Bafta 2024: “Oppenheimer” big winner, “Anatomy of a Fall” awarded, “Barbie” empty-handed
Less than a month before the Oscars, Christopher Nolan's biopic on the father of the atomic bomb "Oppenheimer" came away big winner of the Baftas this Sunday, February 18 with seven awards, without preventing "Anatomy of a Fall" from continuing its beautiful international course.
Director Christopher Nolan, winner of the Best Film and Best Director awards for “Oppenheimer”, poses for photographers during the 77th British Academy Film Awards, the BAFTAs, in London, Sunday February 18, 2024. © Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP
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The elite of the big screen gathered in London for the 77th Bafta ceremony, the British film awards ceremony. It started off strong for the film by French director Justine Triet, who has been racking up awards since winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes, starting with the prize for best original screenplay. He finally settled for this title, far from the hopes aroused by his seven nominations, but enough to maintain expectations of supreme recognition in Los Angeles on March 10, where the film will be in the running in five categories.
Moreover,
Oppenheimer
won the majority of awards, winning seven Baftas. Starting from a position of strength with 13 nominations, like the other international awards,
Oppenheimer
, which brought in nearly a billion dollars
, crushed its competitors, starting with
its great rival on the screens this summer,
Barbie
, left empty-handed. It won in the most prestigious categories such as best film and best director, a first for Christopher Nolan who received a standing ovation, after a long wait and numerous commercial successes (
Inception
,
The Dark Knight
) which had never before been achieved by him. allowed to be crowned in his country of origin.
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The portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, tortured physicist and scientific director of the Manhattan Project during the Second World War, won over
Anatomy of a Fall
by Justine Triet,
Winter Break
by Alexander Payne,
Killers of the Flower Moon
by Martin Scorcese and
Poor Creatures
by Yorgos Lanthimos, an auspicious result before the Oscars, for which he was nominated 13 times. He was also distinguished in the categories of best actor for Irishman Cillian Murphy and best actor in a supporting role for Robert Downey Jr, who received his second Bafta 31 years after his role in
Chaplin
.
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The main other winners of the evening organized at the Royal Festival Hall in London, in the presence of many stars, were
Poor Creatures
by Yorgos Lanthimos, with five Baftas, and
The Zone of Interest
by Jonathan Glazer which won three, including best British film and best foreign language film.
Poor Creatures
notably allowed actress Emma Stone to be crowned best actress for her crazy interpretation of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life with the spirit of a child by a mad scientist. The film was also rewarded in several technical categories such as special effects, costumes and makeup.
The prize for best documentary went to
20 Days in Mariupol
, which chronicles the arrival of war in a Ukrainian city that became the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Russian invasion. For its part,
The Boy and the Heron
, a new film by
Hayao Miyazaki
, received the prize for best animated film, a first for the director of
Princess Mononoke
or
Spirited Away
.
(With AFP)
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