A robot from Bilbao among physicists, murderers of indigenous people, dolls and other poor creatures
Euskaraz irakurri: Bilbotar robot bat, fisikari, indigena-hiltzaile, panpina eta bestelako izaki gaixoen artean
Robot dreamsa feature film directed and written by Bilbao native Pablo Berger (Snow White, Abra Cadabra, Torremolinos 73), nominated for the Oscar for best animated film. The American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards Gala will take place this Sunday night (early morning on Monday in the Basque Country), at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.
Berger’s film, based on a graphic novel by Sara Varon, tells the story of Dog, a lonely dog who lives in Manhattan. One day he will decide to build himself a robot, a friend. They will become inseparable on their journey through New York in the eighties, until one summer night Dog will be forced to abandon his companion.
Premiered in the Official Section of the Cannes Festival, Robot dreams It has been awarded at the Annecy and Sitges festivals, the European Film Awards and in February it won two Goya awards, best animated film and best adapted script. At Sunday’s gala, the competition will be tough, since it shares the category with Spider-Man: Crossing the Multiverse of the mighty Marvel, Elementary from the giant Pixar, The boy and the heron by the Japanese master of animation Hayao Miyazaki and Nimona.
We’ll see what the voting of Hollywood academics holds. At the moment, Pablo Berger has already reached the doors of the award, as other professionals in our cinema such as Alberto Iglesias (four times nominated for best original score), Borja Cobeaga (nominated for best short film in 2007) and Montxo Armendariz ( nominated for best foreign film in 1997 for Secrets of the heart).
Maite Alberdi, a Chilean filmmaker of Basque descent (her paternal grandfather was from Soraluze), is also nominated for an Oscar. She is up for the statuette in the best documentary section for The infinite memorya story about Alzheimer’s.
96th edition
The gala presentation of the 96th edition of the American Film Industry Awards will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 10 (midnight on Monday in the Basque Country), at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, two hours earlier than usual because the start is an hour earlier and because the time changes in the US that day.
This year the ceremony will be, for the fourth time, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, and the most nominated films are Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) with 13 nominations, poor creatures (Yorgos Lanthimos) with 11, The Moon Killers (Martin Scorsese) with 10 and Barbie (Greta Gerwig) with eight.
They also stand out on the list of nominated films Teacher (Bradley Cooper), who is up for seven awards, and Anatomy of a fall (Justine Triet), Those who stay (Alexander Payne), The area of interest (Jonathan Glazer) and American fiction (Cord Jefferson), with five possible prizes.
Among the nominated professionals, there are notable names such as Martin Scorsese, Yorgos Lanthimos, Christopher Nolan, Annette Bening, Sandra Hüller, Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro, Robert Downey Jr ., Mark Ruffalo, Hayao Miyazaki, Ludwig Göransson and John Williams.
There will also be notable absences such as those of Greta Gerwig and Margott Robbie for their work as director and leading actress in Barbie. Likewise, the only three nominations of Napoleon (Ridley Scott) or indifference to Fallen leaves by Aki Kaurismaki, who is not nominated.
Source: Eitb
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