Oscar-2022: the official list of nominees for the main film award has been announced

Nominees for the Academy Awards have been announced in Los Angeles. Among the favorites are “Power of the Dog,” “Dune,” “Belfast” and “West Side Story,” reports with the BBC.

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The Oscars ceremony itself will take place on March 27.

Leaders

The largest number of nominations - 12 - was received by New Zealand director Jane Campion's film The Power of the Dog.

The film is a film adaptation of the 1925 novel of the same name by American writer Thomas Savage, set in 1967 in the provincial American state of Montana.

Against the backdrop of the traditional Western setting, a dramatic story unfolds of the confrontation between two brothers from a wealthy farming family - a harsh macho cowboy (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his softer brother (Jesse Plemons), who decided, despite his brother’s resistance, to marry a simple inn owner ( Kirsten Dunst).

Until now, Jane Campion's biggest success was her film The Piano, shot almost twenty years ago, for which she received the Palme d'Or at Cannes and an Oscar for best original screenplay.

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Since then, it has been forgotten a little, but “Power of the Dog” is up for all the major awards - best film, best director, best actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), best actor (Jesse Plemons) and actress (Kirsten Dunst) in a supporting role. , Best Adapted Screenplay (Jane Campion), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Music (Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood).

Even if the Oscars receive only a fraction of these nominations, Campion, 67, has firmly reclaimed her place as one of the greats of world cinema. And if Neflix's "Power of the Dog" wins the top award for best picture, it will be the first major Oscar awarded to a streaming platform.

A lot was written and talked about “Dune” long before the film was released.

The epic adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel has been hailed as the most anticipated movie release of 2021.

“Dune” has ten nominations. Yes, it was nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. But the director of the film, Frenchman Denis Velneuve, was not even awarded a nomination for directing.

Bypassed nominations and actors. It is mainly the purely technical achievements of this actually incredibly spectacular film that are noted: camera work, visual effects, editing, and, well, the music of the veteran composer Hans Zimmer.

“Belfast” and “A Westside Story” received seven nominations each.

The author of Belfast is British screenwriter, director and actor Kenneth Branagh. In Britain he enjoys the highest reputation and universal respect, and was even awarded a knighthood. Mainly because it works on, so to speak, “home territory”.

He is the author of numerous Shakespearean adaptations. It was they who brought him international recognition: Oscar nominations for directing and best actor for “Henry V” (1989) and best adapted screenplay for “Hamlet” (1996).

In addition to Shakespeare, Branagh also loves another English classic - Agatha Christie. He has screened her novels “Murder on the Orient Express” and the recently released film “Death on the Nile”, in which he, as an actor, has already created one of the best film images of the great detective Hercule Poirot.

Belfast is based on Branagh's original screenplay. The film is largely autobiographical and recreates the director's own childhood in the capital of Northern Ireland in the 1960s.

The deliberately black-and-white picture reflects both the material poverty of life and the constant, tense on the brink of war confrontation between the Catholic and Protestant communities of the city.

The film, however, is by no means gloomy and is permeated with resilient youthful optimism.

Among the nominations Belfast received are the most important: for best film, best director and best original screenplay.

The evergreen (probably one can already say great) Judi Dench is up for a gold statuette for Best Supporting Actress, and Irish rock veteran Van Morrison is up for Best Original Song.

Spielberg's West Side Story was simply doomed to nominations. Hollywood loves reminisces of its own glorious past, and the fiery musical interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, made in 1961 by director Robert Wise, choreographer Jerome Robbins and composer Leonard Bernstein and placed in contemporary New York, received ten Oscars in its time. .

Steven Spielberg needs no introduction. He already has three Oscars and a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers of our time.

However, he approached the remake of “West Side Story” with the utmost care, preserving Bernstein’s outstanding music, Robbins’s choreography, which largely laid the foundation for the modern musical, and even recreating—not in pavilions, but in real life—the urban environment of New York in the early 60s .

West Side Story is nominated for Best Picture, Spielberg is nominated for Best Director. The remaining nominations are rather of a secondary nature.

Other applicants

In addition to those mentioned above, the competition for best film will include “Don't Look Up” by Adam McKay, “CODA: The Child of Deaf Parents” by Sian Heder, “Take the Wheel of My Car” by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, “King Richard” by Reynaldo Marcus Green, “Liquorice Pizza” by Paul Thomas Anderson, "Nightmare Alley" by Guillermo del Toro.

The nominations for the best male and female roles look very representative.

In Being Ricardo, Aaron Sorkin's film about the stars of the 1950s American sitcom, both lead actors Nicole Kidman and Juan Antonio Bardem received nominations.

In addition, for women, these are Penelope Cruz in Pedro Almodóvar's new film Parallel Mothers, Jessica Chastain for her role as a televangelist in the film The Eyes of Tammy Fay, Olivia Colman in Maggie Gyllenhall's directorial debut Strange Daughter and Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in the film "Spencer."

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For men, this is also (except for the mentioned Cumberbatch for “Power of the Dog”) Will Smith for the role of the father and coach of two star tennis players Serena and Venus Williams in the film “King Richard”, Denzel Washington for the role of Macbeth in the first film without his brother by Joel Coen “The Tragedy of Macbeth” "and Andrew Garfield in the musical "Tick-tock... BOOM!"

In the “Best Foreign Film” category, which replaced the previous “Foreign Language Film” category, there are five nominees:

• a Japanese film adaptation of Haruko Murakami’s story “Get Behind the Wheel of My Car,” borrowed from the Beatles’ song Drive My Car;
• Norwegian romantic comedy "The Worst Man Alive";
• a rare example of the animated docudrama genre, “Escape,” made in Denmark, about the difficult and years-long journey of Afghan refugees through Moscow to Denmark;
• autobiographical story about childhood in Naples, enchanted by Diego Maradana, by the already famous Italian director Paolo Sorrentino “The Hand of God”
• a film from Bhutan “Yak in the Classroom” about a village school lost high in the Himalayas.

Expectations for the nomination of the Russian film “Unclenching Fists” by Alexander Sokurov’s student Kira Kovalenko did not materialize.

The only representative of Russia among the nominees is the short animated film “Boxballet” directed by Anton Dyakov about the love of boxer Evgeniy and ballerina Olga.

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