This year, the gala will return to Los Dolby Theater angelsafter in 2021, as a result of the pandemic, it was held in the old Los Angeles train station for those who were able to attend for the protocols. In fact, the European nominees appeared by video call from their respective countries.
In this new edition of the awards, the period drama of Jane Campion “The Power of the Dog”, is at the top of the preferences in 12 categories. In number of nominations, they were followed “Dune” with ten, “Love without barriers” Y “Belfast” with seven, and “King Richard” with six, while the surprise it was the japanese “Drive my Car”which will compete for Best Film, Direction, Adapted Screenplay and International Film.
After being nominated in 1994 for “The Piano Lesson” and losing to steven spielberg (“Schindler’s List”), Campion scored his second nomination for Best Direction and will once again compete with the director of “Love Without Barriers” that -for the eighth time- remains in that category, triumphing twice.
The other contenders for Best Director are Paul Thomas Anderson (in his third nomination in the category), Ryūsuke Hamaguchi Y Kenneth Branghwho with “Belfast” became the first person to achieve nominations in seven different categories throughout his career (Best Film, Short, Direction, Original and Adapted Screenplay, Actor and Supporting Actor).
The Japanese “Drive my Car”, by Hamaguchi, will seek to replicate the success of the South Korean “Parasites” (2019) after obtaining nominations in the same main categories and being the exception of non-English language film nominated for Best Picturewhich quickly made it the film with the most presence from Japan in the history of the awards.
The other contenders for the main award are “The Power of the Dog”, “Duna”, “Belfast”, “Love Without Barriers”, “Licorice Pizza”, “King Richard”, “CODA”, “The Alley of Lost Souls” Y “Don’t look up”.
Source: Ambito
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