Hollywood is preparing to hold the 96th Academy Awards ceremony next Sunday evening (Oscars website)
The Dolby Theater in Los Angeles is preparing to host the largest cinematic event on Sunday evening, March 10, when the 96th Academy Awards ceremony will be held, which is organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in America.
Although the announced date for the start of the ceremony is 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, the historic theater turned into a beehive more than a month ago, and the red carpet has already been completed in its designated place outside the theater, for actress and singer Vanessa Hudgens to stand on, and she will be the first to receive... Guests of the ceremony, including actress Julianne Fogg, while broadcaster and comedian Jimmy Kimmel stood on stage to present the ceremony for the fourth time.
Irish actor Cillian Murphy as Robert Oppenheimer in the poster for the film nominated for 13 Oscars (Al Jazeera)
Despite the strike of Hollywood actors and writers last July, which caused the postponement of a large number of works, the competition for the most prestigious awards in the world reached its peak, and expectations varied, but certain works maintained the lead.
Nominations and surprises
“Oppenheimer” leads the nominations with 13 nominations, followed by “Poor Things” with 11 nominations, then 10 for “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
As for “Barbie,” this year’s box office champ, it received 8 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress.
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In addition to the artistic competition between the different elements, there is a dialogue between the themes of the films, the first of which “Oppenheimer” tells about a devastating American bomb, and the second “Killers of the Moonflower” about the treachery suffered by a tribe of indigenous people of the United States who were immigrants coming across the ocean, and the third is “Creatures.” Miserable”, which presents the frightening contradiction of human beings, and finally “Barbie”, which represents a state of pure entertainment.
The list of stars nominated for the Best Actor awards includes big names, including: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr., and Jodie Foster.
It also includes a large number of young people.
The share of people of color (non-white) of the nominations is 7 out of 20 nominations, and they are Lily Gladstone, Danielle Brooks, Devin Joy Randolph, America Ferrera, Colman Domingo, and Sterling K.
Brown and Jeffrey Wright, the first nomination for each of them.
As for the biggest surprise, it was the absence of Leonardo DiCaprio’s name as a nominee in the Best Actor category for the movie “Killers of the Moonflower,” and Margot Robbie, who was expected to be nominated for her performance in “Barbie,” was also excluded.
Robbie is the producer of “Barbie” and is expected to win as a producer, but the film’s director, Greta Gerwig, was completely excluded from the nominations, as was Alexander Payne, director of “The Holdovers.” Payne and Gerung previously won an Oscar for the screenplay category.
British-American director Christopher Nolan is nominated for the Best Writer Award for the film “Oppenheimer” (social networking sites)
Also among this year's Best Screenplay Oscar nominees is Josh Singer, who co-wrote "Maestro" with Bradley Cooper and won the original screenplay category in 2015 for "Spotlight."
The list of writers also includes many previous nominees, including Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach for “Barbie,” both of whom are nominated for the third time, and director and screenwriter Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer,” which is his third nomination, and Tony McNamara in his second nomination for “Miserable Creatures.”
As for the first-time screenplay award nominees, they are Cord Jefferson for “American Fiction,” Jonathan Glazer for “The Zone of Interest,” and Justin Treat and Arthur Harary for “Anatomy of a Fall.” Fall), and David Hemmingson for "The Holdovers."
The list of films nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature included major names and films that achieved good returns, including “The Boy and the Heron” by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, “Elemental” by directors Peter Sohn and Dennis Ream, and the film “Elemental” by directors Peter Sohn and Dennis Ream. "Nimona" by Nick Bruno, Troy Quan, Karen Ryan and Julie Zachary, "Robot Dreams" by Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estabi and Sandra Tapia Diaz, and finally, "Spider-Man: Through the Spider-Verse" ( Spiderman: Across The Spider-Verse) and its creators are Justin Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal.
Winning predictions
Irish actor Cillian Murphy, who plays Robert Oppenheimer, America's "father of the atomic bomb" in the film chronicling its creation, is in first place in the Best Actor predictions, followed by Paul Giamatti for The Remainers, but Jeffrey Wright, Bradley Cooper and Colman Domingo also made the cut. Powerful performance.
The Hollywood Reporter says Murphy wins by saying, "His pale blue eyes reveal J. Robert Oppenheimer's soft-spoken intelligence, as well as his creeping anguish and corrosive moral qualms, over the devastation he has wrought."
Many expect that Christopher Nolan, writer and director of “Oppenheimer,” will also win the Best Director award for the film, which embodies the moment of power upon which contemporary American history was built. This is the same reason why many critics hate the film, and consider it an incomplete testimony devoid of images and voices of the Japanese victims who were burned by fire. Oppenheimer,” and in addition, film critics accuse the film of being too long and boring.
Despite the great sympathy for the actress, who belongs to the indigenous people in the United States of America, Lily Gladstone, and because the film talks about one of the cases of historical injustice to which they were subjected, the excellence of actress Emma Stone in the movie “Miserable Creatures” makes it difficult to surpass her, even if Gladstone won. It goes beyond artistic achievement to the political and social as backward halves of the landowners.
In competition for the Best Supporting Actor award, Sterling K.
Brown in "American Fantasy," Robert De Niro in "The Moonflower Killers," Ryan Gosling in "Barbie," and Mark Ruffalo in "Miserable Creatures" are impressive performances, but Robert Downey Jr. also gave what may be the best performance of his career in "Oppenheimer." ".
Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from "The Moonflower Killers" (Apple)
In the nominations for Best Supporting Actress, competition is heating up between Daphne Joy Randolph, who played the role of a cook in a boarding school grieving over the death of her student son in Vietnam in “The Remainers,” then Danielle Brooks in “The Color Purple,” and America Ferrara. In “Barbie,” Emily Blunt in “Oppenheimer,” and Jodie Foster in “Niad.”
Although the four competitors are the biggest and most famous, Daphne Joy Randolph in “The Remainers” caught the eye in every scene she appeared in.
Prize givers
Oscar presenters include Zendaya, Nicolas Cage, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Matthew McConaughey, Michelle Yeoh, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mahershala Ali, Jessica Lange, Ki-Hui Kwan, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, and Michael Keaton. .
Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate McKinnon, Rita Moreno, John Mulaney, Catherine O'Hara, Octavia Spencer, Ramy Youssef, and Sam Rockwell will also participate in presenting.
It's traditional for some of last year's winners in major acting categories to present those awards the following year, but that tradition applies to actresses Michelle Yeoh, Kwan, Curtis and Fraser.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies