Towards an Oscar raid for Jane Campion's latest film?
'The Power of the Dog', starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a tormented cowboy, leads the race for the 94th Academy Awards with 12 nominations in total, the Academy announced on Tuesday. price.
A dark and psychological western, "The Power of the Dog" is notably in the running in the categories of best film, best director, best actor, best supporting female roles (Kirsten Dunst) and male, where it manages to align two candidates out of five at the total (Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee).
Even more remarkable, its director, the New Zealander Jane Campion, makes history as the first woman to win two nominations for the Oscar for best director, 28 years after "The Piano Lesson".
"The Power of the Dog" is closely followed by the big-budget space opera "Dune" (ten nominations) by Denis Villeneuve, snubbed this year as a director by the Academy of Oscars.
Next come seven nominations for "Belfast", a black and white dive into Kenneth Branagh's childhood at the heart of the violence in Northern Ireland at the end of the 1960s, on a par with the remake of the musical film "West Side Story" by the Master Steven Spielberg.
The two directors are in the running in their category.
The others named
The Oscars will be presented on March 27 in Los Angeles at the traditional Dolby Theater located on Hollywood Boulevard.
The rest of the nominees in the main categories are:
- best director: Kenneth Branagh, “Belfast”;
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, “Drive My Car”;
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Licorice Pizza”;
Steven Spielberg, “West Side Story” and therefore Jane Campion, “The Power of the Dog”
-best film: "Belfast", "CODA", "Don't Look Up: Cosmic Denial", "Drive My Car", "Dune", "The Williams Method", "Licorice Pizza", "Nightmare Alley", " The Power of the Dog” and “West Side Story”
-best international film: "Drive My Car" (Japan), "Flee" (Denmark), "The Hand of God" (Italy), "School at the End of the World" (Bhutan) and "Julie (in 12 chapters )” (Norway)
-best actor: Javier Bardem, “Being the Ricardos”;
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Power of the Dog”;
Andrew Garfield, “tick, tick…BOOM!”
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Will Smith, “The Williams Method”;
Denzel Washington, “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
-best actress: Jessica Chastain, "In the eyes of Tammy Faye";
Olivia Colman, “The Lost Daughter”;
Penelope Cruz, “Madres Paralelas”;
Nicole Kidman, “Being the Ricardos”;
Kristen Stewart, “Spencer”
- Best Supporting Actor: Ciaran Hinds, “Belfast”;
Troy Kotsur, “CODA”;
Jesse Plemons, “The Power of the Dog”;
JK Simmons, “Being the Ricardos”;
Kodi Smit-McPhee, "The Power of the Dog"
- Best Supporting Actress: Jessie Buckley, “The Lost Daughter”;
Ariana DeBose, “West Side Story”;
Judi Dench, “Belfast”;
Kirsten Dunst, “The Power of the Dog”;
Aunjanue Ellis, “The Williams Method”
- best animated film: "Encanto: the fantastic Madrigal family", "Flee", "Luca", "The Mitchells against the machines", "Raya and the Last Dragon"
-best documentary: “Ascension”, “Attica”, “Flee”, “Summer of Soul”, “Writing with Fire”
-best original screenplay: "Belfast", "Don't Look Up: Cosmic Denial", "The Williams Method", "Licorice Pizza", "Julie (in 12 chapters)"