The film Anatomy of a fall continues its journey around the world: the feature film directed by Justine Triet, which has been accumulating awards since its Palme d’Or at Cannes, won the prize for best original screenplay at the Bafta ceremony, Sunday February 18, in London. Despite seven nominations, the film was satisfied with this single title; enough to maintain expectations of supreme recognition in Los Angeles at the Oscars on March 10, where the film will be nominated in five categories.
Left in a position of strength with thirteen nominations, Oppenheimer, which grossed nearly a billion dollars, crushed its competitors, starting with its great rival on screens this summer, barbie, left 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 creatures by Yorgos Lanthimos, an auspicious result before the Oscars, for which he was again nominated thirteen 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 thirty-one years after his role in Chaplin.
“It’s a very complex, demanding three-hour film about a physicist and a very dark period in history, but spectators came to see it in large numbers, it’s astonishing”reacted Cillian Murphy to the press.
Emma Stone, best actress in “Poor Creatures”
The main other winners of the evening organized at the Royal Festival Hall in London, in the presence of many stars, are Poor creatures by Yorgos Lanthimos, with five Baftas, and The area of interest by Jonathan Glazer (three). Poor creatures, “Frankestein in the feminine”, notably allowed actress Emma Stone to be crowned best actress for her mad interpretation of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life with the spirit of a child by a mad scientist. The film was also rewarded in several technical categories such as special effects, costumes and makeup.
The area of interest, a 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 Breaka touching 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, was also present and was to meet several of the winners in his capacity as president of the Bafta. His wife Kate was still recovering from her abdominal surgery in January.