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Killed: The Oscar ceremony was a crazy neighborhood, but proved that cinema is not dead yet
The Oscar ceremony combined dormant passages to chaotic and neighborhood situations, in a way reminiscent of the Ophir Awards.
He proved to us that Netflix and Zoom are not the only option, that the age of eighty is the new twentieth and that despite everything, there is a future for the big screen (if only they would like to open our cinemas)
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Frances McDormand
Avner Shavit
Monday, 26 April 2021, 08:20 Updated: 10:47
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In the video: The declaration of "Land of the Nomads" as the best film (courtesy of AMPAS® ©, yes and STINGTV)
Like an uneventful football game that ends with a streak of attacks and goals, so did the Oscars held tonight in Los Angeles: most were drowsy, not to mention heavenly and puzzling, until the last half hour arrived, with a random and bizarre sequence of events.
What was not there? Glenn Close, who lost the Oscar for the eighth time, squinted in her ass during a musical segment; The clip chosen to represent "Promising Young Woman," from the outset one of the most explosive among the nominees for Best Picture, featured a spitting scene - a graphic affair we are not used to seeing in a conservative and family ceremony like the Oscars; And the prestigious award, which for decades has locked the event, surprisingly shared a third from the end, leaving the stage for two other awards - in the category of lead actress and lead actor.
Then came the two big surprises of the ceremony: Frances McDormand overcame the two most notable favorites, Viola Davis and Carrie Mulligan, and won an Oscar for her usual great performance in "Land of the Nomads."
This is the third time she has won a statuette in the lead actress category, an achievement no active actress can boast of (not even Meryl Streep, who has won it twice, and once again in the supporting actress category).
The first time it was on "Fargo," the second time on "Three Signs Outside of Loving, Missouri" and as then, this time too the actress celebrated the class with a memorable speech, culminating in howling like a wolf.
And when the wolves howl, it's a sign that chaos is around the corner, and so it did.
The producers, led by Steven Sudberg, have chosen to leave the lead actor award to the end, presumably with the thought that its winner will be the late Chadwick Bozman, and thus the ceremony will end in an exciting chord.
Voters thought differently, and chose to award the statuette to Anthony Hopkins.
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Winners of Lead Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress: Frances McDormand, Daniel Calloway and Yu Yong-Yun (Photo: Reuters)
The Welshman's second win at the statuette, some thirty years after he did so for the first time thanks to "The Silence of the Lambs", could have provided a moment for the Pantheon - but the actor was not present at the ceremony.
Joaquin Phoenix, who presented the statuette with an unusually bored look, was left only to stare into the air, and so the event ended for him in an anti-climax, with no speech and no music, like an electrical device that suddenly breaks due to a short circuit.
As in the case of the confusion between "La La Land" and "Moonlight," it seems that the American Oscar has once again applied the lesson of the Ophir Awards: nowadays, for action, interest and memorable moments, neighborhood chaos is better than a sweet production.
The double loss of Viola Davis and Chadwick Bozeman, both stars of Maine Rainey's Blues, detracted two potential figurines from Netflix's title closet.
The giant corporation finished the evening with seven awards - a personal record for him, a record for any streaming service, and more than any classic Hollywood studio that competed tonight.
However, most of them were in the less central categories, except perhaps the controversial win of “The Octopus Teacher” in the long documentary category.
The Chicago Inauguration Trial, which was nominated for six awards, eventually won zero, and the notable winners were the competing studios.
With and without Corona, it has been an unprecedentedly successful year for Netflix - in the film and television sectors, here and in the rest of the world, but the streaming service is still having a hard time getting the stamp it so desperately needs from the Oscars.
Six nominations, zero wins.
From The Chicago Inauguration Trial (Photo: Netflix)
One of Netflix's wins was in the short feature film category - "Absolute Strangers," which won, among other things, Tomer Shoshan's "White Eye." The achievement of the Israeli competitor was in fact the promotion to the finals. He had no chance against the winner, who was aided not only by the support of the streaming service, but also by his relevant and topical issue - police violence against blacks in the United States. There were quite a few surprises in the ceremony in the end, but in this category there was no room for revolutions.
While Israel once again left the ceremony empty-handed, an even smaller country from it won two statuettes. The best international film award was given to "Another Round", the fourth Danish representative from this country to win the category in the last forty years; And the editorial prize was won by Mikkel Nielsen, also from Denmark, for his work in the English-speaking "Metal Sounds".
These successes are not accidental.
They stem from the proper conduct of Danish culture, in all its stages: from film studies, through the training of graduates to the scope and nature of government support.
Similar things can be said about Korea, which is also developing a tradition of winning: last year it was screenwriter-director Bon Jun-ho for "Parasites" and this year Yu Yong-Jun, who won an Oscar for supporting actress for her performance in "Minari."
We, on the other hand, will not win a statuette (nor will we qualify for the Euro) even in a decade.
Where are they and where are we.
Thomas Wintberg, the Oscar-winning Danish director, with the statuette (Photo: GettyImages, Matt Petit)
The two Danes actually attended the ceremony, but other Europeans and Asians submitted the award or received it overseas - and the production took the trouble to send them a special photography team so that no one would have to zoom in. After a year in which we were almost completely enslaved to this method, the Oscars proved that it is possible otherwise. A little weird that it's the most important lesson from this year's big Hollywood night, but it was clear it would be a weird night.
During the ceremony several different and strange records were broken. Some have already mentioned. Others: Anthony Hopkins ("The Father") became at the age of 83 the oldest actor to win an Oscar; Ann Roth won an Oscar for costume design for "Ma Ryan's Blues" and at age 89 became the oldest woman to win it, in any category. The film also won the hair styling and makeup category, setting another precedent. The statuette was awarded to a triangular team: Sergio Lopez-Riviera and Mia Neil and Jamica Wilson, who are the first black women to win in this category.
However, it is likely that the most talked about figure soon will be the ratings data of the ceremony, which will probably continue their dive.
It is not clear to me why they bother to consider these numbers: more and more Americans are consuming the same content in other ways.
I, too, who saw the ceremony in America, did not watch it on TV, and as Sarah Foley tweeted, the most enjoyable way to see it was on Twitter.
It's convenient for people to bury the Oscar in the year it wins.
Chloe Zhao with the Oscars (Photo: GettyImages, Chris Pizzlo-Paul)
A drop in viewing rates is always a good headline, and will likely be used to stick another nail in the coffin of the Oscars, and more attractive than that - of cinema in general. It is clear that some people would also be more comfortable doing this in a year when a non-white woman wins a statuette.
In the days before the ceremony I read a new biography of Alfred Hitchcock. It tells how ticket sales to theaters in the United States plummeted so drastically between 1946 and 1960 that Hollywood studios panicked and were convinced that television was about to exterminate them. The British director, who was then the world-famous filmmaker at the time, was also forced to draw conclusions, and produced a series for the small screen. Today they would have given it the title "Even the greatest filmmaker in the world understands that cinema is dead."
Well, the cinema was praised then and is being praised now.
He survived then, and may survive now.
In her winning speech, McDormand urged the audience to watch "Land of the Nomads" on the "biggest screen" possible as soon as they could.
Who like her, who tonight perpetuated her status as one of the greatest actresses of our generation, understands the importance of the cinematic experience - and she is not alone.
Since her speech unintentionally locked up the ceremony, it was also the message that summed it up.
Now, all that remains is to wait for the halls in Israel to finally open.
Who knows, maybe the best of all before us.
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