"It was possible to win at the Oscars.
Unfortunately the campaign didn't go as it should have gone, we didn't have the right American distributor who invested what needed to be invested and then, above all, no one told us that we could compete in all the categories. One thing that makes the difference because it is a race in which not everyone starts on an equal footing. If you run for all the categories you have all ten thousand of the Academy as voters, while for the best foreign film category only a thousand vote."
So at Bif&st Matteo Garrone takes a few pebbles off his feet after the defeat of Io Capitano at the Oscars.
The director held a master-class at the Petruzzelli Theater after the screening of I Captain which has just competed at the Oscars in the International film category where it then won The Zone of Interest by English director Jonhathan Glazer.
"The English voters are well nine hundred, while the Italians are just over one hundred - he explained -. Running for all the categories would have given us a better chance".
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