Disappointment for the three Italians nominated for the Oscars. Paolo Sorrentino ("It was the hand of God"), Massimo Cantini Parrini (the costumes of "Cyrano") and Enrico Casarosa (candidate for the best animated film with "Luca") did not bring home any statuettes at the ceremony of Los Angeles assignment. Ryusuke Hamaguchi's “Drive my car” was awarded as best foreign film.
At the evening that took place in the Italian night at the Dolby Theater the dominant colors were yellow and blue, a tribute to Ukraine to which a moment of silence and concentration was paid. President Volodymyr Zelensky did not intervene, as Sean Penn expected . On stage, however, Francis Ford Coppola received applause with his "long live Ukraine".
Moments of tension were instead recorded when Chris Rock, chosen to award the award as best documentary, expressed a few words about the public: he wanted to be nice, brilliant. But when, in reference to the couple formed by Will Smith and his wife Jade Pinkett, he said that the actress looked like "GI Jane", the protagonist of the film "Saving Private Jane", referring to her shaved head, the husband he got up, reached Rock and punched him. If someone talked about an organized gag, it seems instead that it was a spontaneous gesture and the audience remained speechless.
Never had such a scene been seen at an Oscar night.
Here are all the awards of the 94th edition:
Best Film : Coda - The Signs of the Heart by Sian Heder
Best Director : Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog
Best Actress in a Leading Role : Jessica Chastain for The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Best Actor in a Leading Role : Will Smith for King Richard - A Winning Family
Best Supporting Actress : Ariana DeBose for West Side Story
Best Supporting Actor : Troy Kotsur for Coda - the signs of the heart
Best Original Screenplay : Belfast by Kenneth Branagh
Best Adapted Screenplay : Coda by Sian Heder
Best Photography : Dune (Greig Fraser)
Best Makeup and Hairstyle : Tammy Faye's Eyes (Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh)
Best International Film : Drive My Car by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Best Animated Film : Encanto by Byron Howard and Jared Bush
Best Documentary : Summer of Soul… or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Best Special Effects : Dune (Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer)
Best Sound : Dune (Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett)
Best Editing : Dune (Joe Walker)
Best Score : Dune (Hans Zimmer)
Best Original Song : No time to die (Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell)
Best Costume Design: Cruella (JJenny Beavan)
Best Production Design: Dune (Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos)
Best Documentary Short : The Queen of Basketball by Ben Proudfoot
Best animated short : The windshield wiper by Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez
Best Live Action Short : The Long Goodbye by Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed.
(Unioneonline / ss)