Our review: “Oppenheimer”: mission impossible for Christopher Nolan
His portrait of the tortured physicist, scientific director of the Manhattan Project during the Second World War, won over Anatomy of a fall de Justine Triet, Winter Break d’Alexander Payne, Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese and Poor creatures de Yorgos Lanthimos.
Irishman Cillian Murphy and American Robert Downey Jr – already winner of a Bafta for Chaplin 31 years ago – were also recognized in the categories of best actor and best supporting actor.
“It’s a very complex, demanding three-hour film about a physicist and a very dark period in history, but audiences came out to see it in huge numbers – it’s astonishing,” Cillian Murphy told the audience. press.
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“The Area of Interest”, best foreign language film
Anatomy of a fall, which has also been accumulating awards since its Palme d’Or in Cannes, was not as successful on Sunday: the feature film by Frenchwoman Justine Triet about a writer accused of having killed her husband started strong with the prize for best original screenplay, but did not receive any other statuettes. This disturbing dive into a couple, nominated seven times for the Bafta, nevertheless remains in a good position for Los Angeles on March 10, where the film is in the running in five categories.
The main other winners of the evening organized at the Royal Festival Hall in London, in the presence of many stars, are Poor creatures of Yorgos Lanthimos, who won five Baftas, and The area of interest by Jonathan Glazer (three).
Our review: “Poor Creatures”, Beauty and the World
Poor creaturesluck of Frankenstein for women, allowed American star Emma Stone to be crowned best actress for her crazy interpretation of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by a scientist with the mind of a child. The film was also rewarded in several technical categories such as special effects, costumes and makeup.
The area of interest, a chilling film by British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer in German about the daily life of the family of the commander of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz, winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, walked away with three prizes. It thus achieved the feat of receiving both the Bafta for best British film and that of best foreign language film.
On this subject: “The Zone of Interest”, the missing film on the extermination camps
Award-winning documentary on the war in Ukraine
Da’Vine Joy Randolph won best supporting actress for Winter Breaka touching Christmas tale in an American boarding school.
The prize for best documentary went to the powerful 20 days in Mariupol which relates the outbreak of war in a Ukrainian city, since devastated by one of the bloodiest battles of the Russian invasion.
“It’s a great honor (…) but I keep thinking about what is happening in Ukraine at this very moment,” Mstyslav Tchernov, one of the last journalists present in the press, told the press. city besieged almost two years ago.
The Boy and the Heron by Hayao Miyazaki received the award for best animated film, a first for the director of Princess Mononoke or Spirited away.