‘Oppenheimer’, by Christopher Nolan, arrives ready to sweep tonight the 96th edition of the Oscars, in which the Spanish Juan Antonio Bayona is also seeking the award, for best international film for ‘The Snow Society’, and the Chilean Maite Alberdi, in documentation for ‘Infinite Memory’.
At 4:00 p.m. Los Angeles time, a gala presented by Jimmy Kimmel will begin at the Dolby Theater in which Nolan’s film about the ‘father of the atomic bomb’ is the big favorite, with 13 nominations, including best film, direction, actor (Cillian Murphy), supporting (Robert Downey Jr) or secondary (Emily Blunt).
‘Poor Things’, by the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos, arrives with 11 nominations, and ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’, by Martin Scorsese, with 10. Both films have their strongest assets in their leading actresses – Emma Stone and Lily Gladstone – the fight for the most disputed prize of the night.
If Stone wins it will be her second Oscar after the one achieved for ‘La La Land’ (2016), while in the case of Gladstone, she would make awards history if she wins it since she would be the first indigenous American actress to win it.
In the male section, it seems that no one can take away Murphy’s Oscar for best actor, as well as his film partner Downey Jr, for best supporting actor.
But Brad Pitt, also nominated in this category for ‘Barbie’, will try to bring out the colors of the Hollywood Academy and achieve a revenge award for the lack of nominations for Margot Robbie, the protagonist of the doll’s story, and for its director, Greta Gerwig.
The Snow Society for Spain
A ceremony in which Juan Antonio Bayona will seek the Oscar for best international film for ‘The Snow Society’, about what is known as the ‘tragedy of the Andes’, although he faces tough competitors, such as ‘The Zone of Interest’ , by the British Jonathan Glazer, or ‘Perfect Days’, by the German Wim Wenders (although it competes for Japan).
And Alberdi will try to win the statuette on the second attempt after the nomination for ‘The Mole Agent’ in 2020. This time he will try with ‘Infinite Memory’, a love story intertwined with death, which will compete with, among others, ’20 days in Mariupol’ and ‘The four daughters’.
The Spanish Pablo Berger in animation, for ‘Robot Dreams’ and David Martí, Montse Ribé and Ana López-Puigcerver in makeup and hair for ‘The Snow Society’, complete the Hispanic options at the gala, along with the Mexican Rodrigo Prieto, who is up for best cinematography for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’.
It is Prieto’s fourth nomination after ‘Brokeback Mountain’ (2005), ‘Silence’ (2017) and ‘The Irishman’ (2020).
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