Sound, documentary, script… Three French people awarded at the Oscars

Whether it is Florian Zeller, crowned for best adaptation, Nicolas Becker for sound or producer Alice Doyard for the documentary short, the French distinguished themselves on Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, which took place in Los Angeles.

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The most prominent will obviously have been the author of the play

, which became

in the cinema, which won an Oscar in his first film, at the age of forty-one.

At the very end of the evening, the British legend Anthony Hopkins, the father in his film, even completed the Frenchman's triumph by taking the statuette of the best actor, to everyone's surprise.

Due to the pandemic, no release date has yet been announced in France for

, which has been in theaters since the end of February in the United States, where many cinemas have reopened in recent weeks.

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In the technical categories, the Frenchman Nicolas Becker is part of the group awarded for the sound of the film

. Essential element of this feature film which evokes the story of a rock drummer losing his hearing. Several members of the film crew admired Nicolas Becker as a sort of mad scientist, capable of engaging, before and during filming, in the most improbable experiments and soundings to achieve the desired result.

Finally, the French producer Alice Doyard was crowned Sunday in the documentary category, short format, for

, a film directed by the American Anthony Giacchino on a former nonagenarian resistant who goes, for the first time, to the site of the former concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany, to honor his resistant brother, who died there. A journey of memory but also the birth of a relationship between Colette Marin-Catherine, overflowing with vitality at the age of ninety, and a young history buff, Lucie Fouble, seventeen, who will accompany her in his journey.

said Alice Doyard when receiving her award,