View of France, the 93e Oscars ceremony will have offered a surreal spectacle. Nothing is the same as before, a year after the start of the pandemic that killed 3 million people around the world. Starting with this strangely calm atmosphere on the Los Angeles red carpet. Almost no onlookers: the columnists dispatched to the site have a “boulevard” to interview the stars under a radiant sky, like Thomas Vinterberg, in a white tuxedo, nominated for the Oscar for best international film with Drunk. The specialists give him the winner even before the ceremony begins, and their prognosis will not be denied.
Several films resonated with the question of civil rights, the news of racial tensions or the fractures of America
In Paris, it is already past midnight. The start of the ceremony is announced for 2 a.m., with a reduced number of participants, gathered in an Art Deco station in LA, it is announced on the Canal + channel, which broadcasts the event live and exclusively. The encrypted channel is also responsible for “Produce the French part of the Oscars”, the French nominees, such as Florian Zeller, director of The Father with Anthony Hopkins, unable to make the trip to the United States due to the health crisis. At the express request of the Americans, and in order to avoid any contact, the French artists are welcomed in a building next to that of Canal, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), specifies the presenter Laurent Weil. “It’s completely unreal, dematerialized”, reacts Nicolas Becker, nominated for the Oscar for best sound for Sound of Metal, by Darius Marder, a film about a drummer who loses his hearing and falls into the world of the “deaf” – Nicolas Becker will win the trophy a few hours later with his colleagues Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh.
The ceremony, produced under the leadership of Steven Soderbergh, opened with a long traveling shot, like the opening credits of the film. The spectator follows the arrival of the actress Regina King, flexible and swaying approach in her sky-colored dress. We think of the first images of Jackie Brown (1997), by Quentin Tarantino, with Pam Grier in the title role of the flight attendant, leaving the airport with a determined stride. Regina King sets the tone for the evening, activist and under the sign of diversity. Referring to the outcome of the trial of Derek Chauvin, the white police officer convicted, Tuesday, April 20, of the murder of George Floyd, a black forty-something, in May 2020, the actress launched in front of the audience: “If the trial had taken another turn, I would have put on my walking shoes and not heels. “
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