Jane Campion’s Western “The Power of the Dog” leads with 12 nominations, including best film, the nominations for the Oscars of the Hollywood Academy, which will be delivered on March 27 (early on March 28 in Euskal Herria) and whose nominations have been announced this noon.
Behind this drama are “Dune” with 10 nominations, “Belfast” and “West Side Story” with 7 each, and “The Williams Method” with 6 nominations.
The Oscar for best film will be disputed between “Belfast”, “Coda”, “Don’t look up”, “Dune”, “The Williams Method”, “Licorice Pizza”, “The Alley of Lost Souls”, “The power of the dog”, “West Side Story” and the Japanese “Drive My Car”, which, like “Parasite” did in 2020, will compete both in the category of best general film and in the international section.
The rest of the nominees for best foreign feature film are “Flee” (Denmark), “Was God’s Hand” by Paolo Sorrentino (Italy), “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” (Bhutan) and “The Worst Person in the World” (Norway).
Interpretation and direction
In the category of best direction, Jane Campion (“The power of the dog”), Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (“Drive My Car”), Kenneth Branagh (“Belfast”), Paul Thomas Anderson (“Licorice Pizza”) and Steven Spielberg ( “Westside Story”).
The Oscar nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role are Penelope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”), Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”), Olivia Colman (“The Dark Daughter”), Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”) and Nicole Kidman (“Being the Ricardos”).
The category of best leading actor will feature Javier Bardem (“Being the Ricardos”), Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Power of the Dog”), Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick… Boom!”), Will Smith (“The Williams Method” ) and Denzel Washington (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”).
Judi Dench (“Belfast”), Jessie Buckley (“The Dark Daughter”), Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”), Kristen Dunst (“The Power of the Dog”) and Aunjunue Ellis opt for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. (“The Williams Method”). The five nominees for the award for best supporting actor are Ciarán Hinds (“Belfast”), Troy Kotsur (“Coda”), JK Simmons (“Being the Ricardos”), Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee, both for “The Power Of the dog”.
Source: Eitb
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