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The Oscar

dreams

of

Juan Antonio Bayona

and his team were diluted mid-ceremony.

Not even the 200 million views on Netflix were enough for

The Snow Society

stopped the favorite, the British

The Zone of Interest

, the portrait of the idyllic daily life of the Auschwitz commander in the camp, while a few meters away atrocities were being committed in the Nazi concentration camp.

The director of last year's Grand Prix winner in Cannes,

Jonathan Glazer

, spoke of the consequences of

"the dehumanization" that led to the Holocaust

during World War II, the same one that is marking the conflict between

Israel and Palestine

.

His speech was applauded by part of the audience present at the Dolby Theatre, in an edition marked, in part, by the demonstrations in favor of the Palestinian cause outside the Los Angeles theater.

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Bayona was aware of the difficulty of defeating a film that started with five nominations, including best film.

He was confident, however, that the popularity of his interpretation of the

1972 Andes air tragedy

, when a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the mountains, would be enough to make a splash.

The Barcelona director is left with the impact his film has had.

"There are important people in Hollywood whom I admire a lot who have told me that it

is the best film they have seen in a long time

. That means a lot to me," he explained last Saturday in a meeting with the Spanish press in Los Angeles.

They also couldn't claim victory in the

best makeup category

, with Montse Ribé, David Martí, Ana López-Puigcerver as nominees.

It was the choral option against the more effective one, as Bayona himself proposed, the commitment to narrate the transformation of the survivors of the tragedy of the Andes, as hunger and conditions were wreaking havoc on their face and body. , facing the transformation of a character like Willem Dafoe into

Poor creatures

, that of a scientist with a disfigured face.

The same fate befell

Pablo Berger

with his moving

Robot Dreams

in the category of best animated film.

The favorite option won,

The Boy and the Heron

, by a living legend of Japanese cinema like

Hayao Miyazaki

, the story of a 12-year-old boy who struggles to settle in a new city after the death of his mother.

It doesn't go empty, however.

His animated feature film has left its mark in Hollywood, a favorite for many due to the human nature of its story.

There are several critics in Los Angeles who would have voted for that option because it was, as Berger himself told EL MUNDO days before the gala, "the most exciting" of the nominees, "the one that touches the heart the most because it speaks directly about feelings and emotions, and being without dialogue, where music is very present, it makes the raw emotions come out."

Miyazaki, who was unable to travel due to his advanced age, 83

, said he felt honored to receive an Oscar at this point and promised to continue working "even harder" in the future.

Great news for his legion of followers worldwide.