(London) Less than a month before the Oscars, Christopher Nolan’s biopic on the father of the atomic bomb Oppenheimer left the big winner of the BAFTAs on Sunday with seven awards, without preventing Anatomy of a fall to continue its successful international career.
The British film awards ceremony started strong for the film by French director Justine Triet, who has been racking up awards since winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes, starting with the prize for best original screenplay. He finally settled for this title, far from the hopes aroused by his seven nominations, but enough to maintain expectations of supreme recognition in Los Angeles on March 10, where the film will be in the running in five categories.
Starting from a position of strength with 13 nominations, like the other international awards, Oppenheimerwhich grossed nearly a billion dollars, crushed its competitors, starting with its great rival on screens this summer, barbieleft empty-handed.
It won in the most prestigious categories such as best film and best director, a first for Christopher Nolan who received a standing ovation, after a long wait and numerous commercial successes (Inception, The Dark Knight) who had never allowed him to be crowned in his country of origin.
The portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, tortured physicist and scientific director of the Manhattan Project during World War II, won against Anatomy of a fall by Justine Triet, Winter Break by Alexander Payne, Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorcese and Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos, an auspicious result before the Oscars, for which he was nominated 13 times.
He was also distinguished in the categories of best actor for the Irishman Cillian Murphy and best actor in a supporting role for Robert Downey Jr, who received his second BAFTA 31 years after his role in Chaplin.
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The other main winners of the evening organized at the Royal Festival Hall in London, in the presence of many stars, are Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos, with five BAFTAs, and The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer (three).
Poor Things, “Frankestein au feminine”, notably allowed the actress Emma Stone to be crowned best actress for her interpretation full of madness of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life with the spirit of a child by a scientist mad. The film was also rewarded in several technical categories such as special effects, costumes and makeup.
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The Zone of Interesta chilling film by British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer in German about the daily life of the family of the commander of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz and winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, leaves with three prizes, achieving the feat of receiving both the BAFTA for best British film and best foreign language film.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph won best supporting actress for Winter Break, A heartwarming Christmas tale in an American university.
The prize for best documentary went to 20 Days in Mariupol which chronicles the arrival of war in a Ukrainian city that became the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Russian invasion.
The Boy and the Herona new film by Hayao Miyazaki, received the award for best animated film, a first for the director of Princess Mononoke Or Spirited away.
A regular at the event, Prince William, who has only spoken publicly once since the announcement of the cancer of his father, King Charles III, is also present and will meet several of the winners in his capacity as president BAFTAs. His wife Kate remains recovering from her abdominal surgery in January.