Pablo O. Scholz
04/26/2021 11:05
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Updated 04/26/2021 11:05
The
Oscars
ceremony passed
and there were duels for everyone.
Anthony Hopkins
vs.
Chadwick Boseman;
Glenn Close
vs.
the Academy, and
Netflix
vs.
The academy.
Next, the 3 central duels of Sunday night
Anthony Hopkins vs.
Chadwick boseman
Anthony Hopkins in "The Father," for which he won best actor.
In Argentina it opens when the cinemas reopen.
Photo BF Paris
For everyone, including the bookmakers, the award for best leading actor had a first and last name: that of Chadwick Boseman.
The African-American, who had died at 43 on August 28 of last year, due to a devastating colon cancer, competed for
The mother of the blues
.
The actor who was a
Black Panther
composes in the Netflix film Levee, the trumpeter of Ma Rainey's (Viola Davis) band, with whom he faces.
Anthony Hopkins was in
The Father
, playing an old man with Alzheimer's.
The film opens in Argentina when theaters reopen at the AMBA.
Chadwick Boseman in "The Mother of the Blues".
Netflix photo
It was Boseman's first nomination, which had been sweeping awards season.
Hopkins had won for
The Silence of the Fools
29 years ago.
Why didn't Boseman win, and the 83-year-old Welsh actor took the award?
Chadwick Boseman swept, in almost all the awards in the United States.
But Hopkins, shortly before the Oscar voting closed, won the best actor award at the BAFTAs (the British Film Academy).
That, and the fact that the membership of the Hollywood Academy has expanded so much, and also outside the United States, played in favor of Hopkins, who has four other Oscar nominations, the last last year for
The Two. Papas
.
Glenn Close vs.
the hollywood academy
Alone, at the entrance to Union Station.
Glenn Close lost for the eighth time.
AFP photo
It was the eighth time that Glenn arrived at a ceremony with expectations of success and left empty-handed.
It's true: if he won it last night for
Hillbilly, a rural elegy
, Ron Howard's very lazy movie, it was not very deserved, let's say, and Youn Yuh-Jung, who won for
Minari
, composes another grandmother, even more endearing.
Glenn had been nominated for the first time for
The World According to Garp
(1993, supporting actress), then for
Reunion
the following year also for a supporting role, and for
The Best
, next to Robert Redford, a year later, and also as Supporting Actress.
Nor did he win, as the protagonist, for
Fatal Attraction
(in 1998),
Dangerous Relationships
(1989),
The Secret of Albert Nobbs
(2012) or for
The Wife
(2019).
Will the ninth be the charm?
The Academy vs.
Netflix
Sacha Baron Cohen was a nominee for best supporting actor for Netflix's "The Chicago 7 Trial."
The film won nothing.
Reuters photo
Last year,
Martin Scorsese's
The Irishman
, produced entirely by Netflix, entered the ceremony with ten Oscar nominations.
The same number as
Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood
and
1917
, and one less than
Joker
, who had 11.
He did not win a single statuette.
This year,
Aaron Sorkin's The
Chicago 7 Trial
had 6 Oscar nominations, the same number of six other nominees for best picture.
He did not win a single statuette.
Paulina Porizkova and the director and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.
His film "The Chicago 7 Trial" was the only best picture nominee to not win an award.
Photo EFE
Does the Hollywood Academy frown upon streaming?
And in particular, Netflix?
Chadwick Boseman was a strong favorite for
The Mother of the Blues
, as we told above, and Viola Davis, his co-star, was in the fight for best leading actress, which was taken by Frances McDormand.
Marlee Matlin (center) poses with Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed (R), directors of the documentary "My Teacher the Octopus."
Photo EFE
Netflix did win best documentary, for that wonder called
My teacher the octopus
, and two artistic awards for
The mother of the blues
(costumes and makeup and hairstyles), two for
Mank
(photography direction and production design) and best short of animation (
If Anything Happens I Love You
).
Little and nothing.
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