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.
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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.
Rest, Oppenheimer won the majority of awards, winning seven Baftas. Starting from a position of strength with 13 nominations, like the other international awards, Oppenheimerwhich grossed nearly a billion dollarscrushed 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) who had never allowed him 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 against 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 the 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, are Poor creatures by Yorgos Lanthimos, with five Baftas, and The area 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 mad 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 his part, The Boy and the Heronnew film from Hayao Miyazakireceived the award for best animated film, a first for the director of Princess Mononoke Or Spirited away.
(With AFP)
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