BAFTA

Por Marie-Louise Gumuchian

LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) – “Oppenheimer,” a three-hour epic about the making of the atomic bomb in World War II, was the big winner at the BAFTA film awards on Sunday, winning top honors for best film and best director, as well as five other awards.

The film, one of the highest-grossing films of 2023, was also awarded with awards for lead actor Cillian Murphy, who plays the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, for supporting actor Robert Downey Jr, for editing, for photography and for the band. original sound.

Nolan, who won his first BAFTA for directing, thanked the cast and crew in his acceptance speech.

“In the real world there are all kinds of people and organizations who have fought hard to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world… By accepting this award, I want to recognize their efforts,” he added.

Like Nolan, Murphy was the favorite to win his category and in his acceptance speech he referred to the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb.”

“Oppenheimer was a colossally mischievous and complex character, and he meant different things to different people,” Murphy said.

“One man’s monster is another man’s hero. That’s why I love movies, because we have a space to celebrate and interrogate and investigate that complexity.”

Emma Stone picked up the lead actress award for the sex-charged gothic comedy “Poor Things,” which took home five awards in total.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph won the supporting actress award for her role in “The Holdovers,” a comedy set at an all-boys boarding school.

“The Zone of Interest,” about the Auschwitz commandant and his family, who live next to the Nazi death camp, won three awards: outstanding British film, non-English film and sound.

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The courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall” won the night’s top prize, original screenplay. The adapted screenplay was for the comedy-drama “American Fiction,” based on the 2001 novel “Easure” by Percival Everett.

Best documentary went to “20 Days in Mariupol,” journalist Mstyslav Chernov’s personal account of the 2022 siege of the Ukrainian city.

As well as the celebrities attending the ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on the River Thames in central London, the guest list also included BAFTA President Prince William.

The ceremony, known as the BAFTAs (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), was presented by actor David Tennant.

(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Hugh Lawson, David Holmes and Angus MacSwan, Editing in Spanish by Juana Casas)

2024-02-19 04:20:30
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NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 19:10

Dutch cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema has won the most important British film prize for his camera work in Oppenheimer. Director Christopher Nolan’s film about the physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb is the big favorite at this year’s BAFTAs.

It is his first Bafta for 52-year-old Van Hoytema. He had a chance to win three times before, but missed out on the film prize in 2012, 2015 and 2018 with the films Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Interstellar and Dunkirk respectively.

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The Swiss-born Dutchman has made a name for himself in recent years by working on a number of major international films.

Van Hoytema can also win an Oscar next month for his work in Oppenheimer. Last month he said that he is happy that his efforts “have not gone unnoticed by the Academy”.

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Christopher Nolan’s film “Oppenheimer” dominates the nominations for the BAFTA Film Awards

“Dominate movie”OppenheimerDirector Christopher Nolan received award nominations Bafta The British Film Festival, which will be distributed on February 18, is a continuation of the events witnessed by the major film awards.

Nolan’s film about the inventor of the nuclear bomb received 13 award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Irishman Cillian Murphy, after he had previously won a large number of other awards.

Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos came in second place in the BAFTA nominations, as this film, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, received 11 nominations, one of which went to Emma Stone in the Best Actress category.

As for Martin Scorsese’s historical film “Killers of the Flower Moon,” it was nominated for nine awards, along with “Zone of Interest,” the grand prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival, which deals with the diaries of the commandant of the Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz.

The French film “Anatomie d’une chute,” which deals with the trial of a woman accused of killing her husband, received nominations for Best Picture, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director for Justine Trier, and Best Screenplay and Best Actress for Sandra Holer.

Thus, the film that won the Palme d’Or at the last Cannes Festival confirmed its global success, by winning the Best Foreign Language Film award, after it had won in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Critics’ Choice Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards in early January. /January, hoping to crown his career with an Oscar in the spring, as the movie “The Artist” did about a decade ago.

As for British cinema, the film “Saltburn” by director Emerald Fennell received five nominations, including three for its actors Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi and Rosamund Pike.

The British film “How to Half Sex,” directed by young director Molly Manning Walker, had three nominations, after it won the “Un Certain Regard” award at the Cannes Film Festival.

The BAFTA Awards ceremony, like the Golden Globes, is an indication of what the Academy Awards, which are distributed in March in Los Angeles, may lead to.