The film ‘Oppenheimer’, by Christopher Nolan, was the big winner of the 96th edition of the Oscars, winning seven statuettes, including best film and best director, the first in the British filmmaker’s long career. In a flat ceremony, the highlight was Ryan Gosling’s fun performance, again in the shoes of Ken with an impossible and bright pink suit, which brought the Dolby theater to its feet. A stage to which they went up, fulfilling all the forecasts, Emma Stone and the Irishman Cillian Murphyto collect the awards for best actor and actress for their work ‘Poor Creatures’ and ‘Oppneheimer’, respectively.

They were the last awards of the night before those of direction and film, also for ‘Oppenheimer’. “Thank you to everyone who has been there and believed in my career, to my family and to the incredible Emma Thomas for producing the film,” said an emotional Nolan when accepting the directing award. The film based on the life of Robert Oppenheimer, theoretical physicist and father of the atomic bomb, It also won best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr., best photography, soundtrack and editing.. In thanking him for his award, Cilliam Murphy said: “We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb and, for better or worse, we live in Oppenheimer’s world, so I would like to dedicate it to all the pacifists.”

The ceremony was finally left without the record of Lily Gladstone (‘The Moon Killers’), who was competing to be the first Native American to win the award for best actress, because Emma Stone, winner of ‘La La Land’ in 2017 , was once again victorious in this category thanks to ‘Poor Creatures’. The actress starred in one of the anecdotes of the night when she acknowledged, laughing and with a surprised face, that her dress had torn in the backand when she left the stage she asked that no one look at her. The film by the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos was the big winner, also bagging three awards in the technical sections of best production design, costume design, and makeup and hairstyling, the latter to which the team of Juan Antonio Bayona’s ‘The Snow Society’ also aspired.

Criticism of the Academy at the gala for leaving Gerwig and Robbie out of the categories for ‘Barbie’

‘Barbie’, the box office phenomenon of the year, arrived with eight nominations but had to settle for only best song for ‘What I Was Made For?’, by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell. Comedian and presenter Jimmy Kimmel has already started the ceremony criticizing the Hollywood Academy for leaving out Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie in the categories of best director and leading actress, respectively: “The same people who didn’t vote for them are applauding, don’t pretend they’re not guilty.”

Nor could the American with Honduran roots America Ferrera (‘Barbie’) beat out Da’Vine Joy Randolph (‘Those Who Stay’) as best supporting actress. Adverse luck also for Martin Scorsese’s latest creation, ‘The assassins of the moon‘, that He did not win any of the ten Oscars he wanted. Among his defeats was the category of best photography, in which the Mexican Rodrigo Prieto lost to the Swiss Hoyte van Hoytema, who won the award for ‘Oppenheimer’.

Bayona and Berger, empty-handed

‘The Snow Society’ could not complete the Bayonne feat with ‘The Snow Society’ they also had the difficult task of beating the British ‘The area of ​​interest‘, but the film about the idyllic life of a Nazi commander next to the Auschwitz concentration camp met the expectations and won best international film. This award was presented by the Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Bad Bunny and, upon receiving it, the director Jonathan Glazer made explicit reference to the conflict in Gaza and to the “dehumanization” it has brought, “whether for the victims of the Hamas attack or the ongoing offensive” by Israel.

The also Spanish Pablo Berger was competing with ‘Robot Dreams’ for best animated film, but the Japanese Hayao Miyazaki made history by getting ‘The Boy and the Heron’ became the second non-English speaking film capable of winning in this section. The previous one was another of his work ‘Spirited Away’ (2001).

The Chilean documentary filmmaker Maite Alberdi, who already attended the Oscars with ‘The Mole Agent’ in the 2021 edition, was one of those called to triumph at this gala with her profound portrait of Alzheimer’s in ‘La memoria infinite’, which was finally defeated by ’20 days in Mariupol’, a portrait of the Ukrainian war. “I wish I could change this award because Russia would never have attacked Ukraine or occupied our cities (…) However, together, you, some of the most talented people in the world, we can ensure that history is rectified and the truth prevails “said the director in one of the few political speeches of the night.