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Interesting facts about the Oscar 2019, Soviet and Russian nominations and victories

'24.02.2019'

Source: with the BBC

The greatest night of the year is approaching: the Oscars. The 91st awards ceremony will take place in Los Angeles, California at the Dolby Theater on Sunday 24 February. The nominees were announced on January 22nd.

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By the number of nominations (10 for each film) the leading films are "Roma" by Mexican Alfonso Cuaron and "Favorite" by Greek Yorgos Lantimos. And while the author of "Roma" is looking for a separate room to store the statuettes, the correspondent Bi-bi-si Stephen McIntosh prepared an overview of the unusual facts related to this year’s ceremony.

1. Lady Gaga took this nickname out of love for Queen and her song Radio Gaga

After more than 10 years on her way to stardom, the singer essentially got into a fight with her favorite band. Her film A Star is Born will compete with Queen's biopic Bohemian Rhapsody in the Best Film nomination.

2. Mahershala Ali is the main Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Green Book

Two years ago he won this award for his role in Moonlight. If he wins this year, he will become the fastest-winning Oscar-winning actor after Tom Hanks, who won Oscars for Forrest Gump and Philadelphia in 1993 and 1994, respectively.

3. His nomination rival Richard Grant is well known for Whitnale and Me, which was filmed in 1987.

An even more famous role for the actor - in the 1997 film "Spice World" with girls from the group Spice Girls in the lead roles.

4. Glenn Close has the largest number of Oscar nominations. Nominations, but not statuettes

Perhaps this situation will change in a few days. The actress was nominated for the award for Best Actress (film “The Wife”). In the career of the actress there were as many as six Oscar nominations. And so far not a single statuette. Perhaps this will change soon.

5. In the nominations "Best Actor" and "Best Supporting Actor", four out of five nominees played real people

It is about Freddie Mercury, Vincent Van Gogh, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.

6. The star of the film "Roma" Yalica Aparisio has never acted in a movie before

For the filming of the film, she learned the Mixtec language. The Mishtecs are an ancient Mesoamerican people who inhabited the Mexican state of Oaxaca and the states to the north of it.

7. All four "Oscars" awarded to actors this year can be awarded for roles of homosexual, lesbian or bisexual

And so it happened on the "Baft". Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz played the mistresses in The Favorite, Mahershal Ali's character in The Green Book is supposedly homosexual, and Rami Malek played the role of Freddie Mercury, the famous for his bisexuality.

And also, like last year, the same artists who received the Bafta were nominated for the Oscar. Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand, Allison Jenny and Gary Oldman received awards at both ceremonies.

8. "Incredibles 2" - nominee for the prize in the category "Best Animated Film"

True, sequels have historically little chance of winning. The last such movie was Toy Story 3 in 2010. On the other hand, the first Incredibles appeared back in 2004. Maybe 15 years later, many have forgotten about this film, and this will increase the chances of the second?

9. Curious coincidence - actor Christian Bale celebrates his birthday on the same day as his character Dick Cheney from the movie "Power"

It's January 30th. For the sake of fairness, we note that Bale does not support the political course of the former US Vice President under George W. Bush. In 2019, Russia nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film the drama Sobibor by Konstantin Khabensky. The tape was not included in the final list of nominees.

Oscar-winning Soviet and Russian films

1. The first "Oscar", awarded to a foreign film, received a Soviet ribbon

In 1943, in the nomination “For the best full-length documentary,” which appeared for the first time, the film “The Defeat of German Troops near Moscow”, filmed in the USSR, became the winner. The brass plate of the statuette reads: “For the heroism of the Russian people in defending Moscow and for working on a film in extreme danger.”

2. A quarter of a century later, the best foreign film was the work of Sergei Bondarchuk "War and Peace"

The adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace won an Oscar in 1969 in the Best Foreign Language Film category, and also received a nomination for Best Artist's Work.

"War and Peace". Photo: video frame YouTube / Mosfilm Cinema Concern

3. 1976 - the year of the Oscar for the Soviet-Japanese film "Dersu Uzala"

Akira Kurosawa’s film was for the director the first color film in his career and the first film not made in Japan, and immediately brought the film Academy Award.

4. 1981 - "Oscar" received the film by Vladimir Menshov "Moscow does not believe in tears"

A year earlier, the film became the leader of the Soviet film distribution. It was watched by about 90 million people. They say that US President Ronald Reagan watched this film as many as eight times to understand the "mysterious Russian soul."

5. 1995 is a stellar year for Nikita Mikhalkov's “Burnt by the Sun”

The film received a statuette in the category “Best Foreign Language Film”. To date, this film is the last full-length Russian-language film awarded an Oscar.

"Burnt by the Sun" Photo: video frame YouTube / VideoLand

6. In 2000, animator Alexander Petrov received an Oscar

The award was given to the animation film "The Old Man and the Sea". The director has three more nominations for the “Oscar”: for the films “Cow”, “Mermaid” and “My Love”.

12 films from the USSR and Russia, which were nominated, but did not receive a film award

This year Russia nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film the drama of Konstantin Khabensky Sobibor. But the tape did not make it to the final list of nominees.

Edition Bi-bi-si collected all the most interesting about Soviet and Russian films that were nominated for the award, but did not receive it.

1969 year. "The Brothers Karamazov"

This is the last film directed by Ivan Pyriev - he died suddenly before completing work on the picture. The novel itself, by the way, became the last one for its author - Fyodor Dostoevsky died two months after finishing work on it.

As a result, the third episode of the film for Pyryev was filmed by the leading actors - actors Mikhail Ulyanov and Kirill Lavrov. According to Andrey Myagkov, the role of Alyosha Karamazov is his best film role.

1972 year. "Chaikovsky"

The film directed by Igor Talankin nominated for two Oscars at once: for “Best foreign film” and “Best adaptation of musical accompaniment”. She starred in two European countries at once - in Britain and in France.

The role of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was played by Innokenty Smoktunovsky, who received the Best Actor prize at the San Sebastian Festival in 1970 and became the Best Actor of the same year according to the audience poll of the Soviet Screen magazine.

"Chaikovsky". Photo: video frame YouTube / Mosfilm Cinema Concern

Smoktunovsky often called himself a happy person in interviews: "Well, who else had a chance to play such roles as me - Prince Myshkin, Hamlet, Ivanov, Tchaikovsky ... Fate kept me - probably so that I could play all this."

At the end of the preface to the novel “Tchaikovsky,” its author Nina Berberova wrote that the film was filmed directly from this book of hers.

1973 year. "... And the dawns here are quiet"

The work of Stanislav Rostotsky, a piercing tape based on the novel of the same name by Boris Vasiliev “... The Dawns Here Are Quiet” did not receive the award. The director himself, a former front-line soldier, said that the film was shot in memory of a nurse who, during the war, took him from the battlefield and saved him from death.

The bath scene, during which the actresses stripped naked, was censored. In Soviet cinema of that period, such frank filming was very rarely allowed. By the way, the actresses were shy, but Rostotsky, who persuaded them to undress in front of the camera, said that “I need to show where the bullets hit. Not into male bodies, but into female bodies ”.

All the actors who starred (except for Olga Ostroumova) were, in fact, debutants. "Dawns" became their first big film work for them. Irina Dolganova, who played Sonya Gurvich, said in an interview about the director: “He was looking for faces that were not familiar on the screen. We, the girls he selected, were like that - clean, open, with our eyes wide open to the world ”.

“Rostotsky made us believe in the reality of death,” said Ekaterina Markova, the performer of the role of Gali Chetvertak. Death close and monstrous doubly, because young beautiful women died.

1979 year. "White Bim Black Ear"

Another tape of Stanislav Rostotsky. The film, about which many say that after seeing it only once, they can no longer watch: tears from the first frames. However, the film became the undisputed leader of the Soviet film distribution, and its creators received the Lenin Prize.

The role of the Scottish Setter Beam was played by 2 English Setters, because white Scottish Setters do not exist in nature. The first dog was named Styopka. The second is Dandy. To win the trust of the dogs-actors, the leading actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov had to go hunting with them and walk a lot.

Here is what he himself said about the filming: “I needed to make friends with an adult dog in a very short time. And not just make friends, but make sure that the audience has no doubts that this dog is mine. "

“White Bim Black Ear.” Photo: video frame YouTube / All Soviet films on RVISION

1983 year. "Private life"

Actor Mikhail Ulyanov received a special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival for his role in the drama "Private Life" by Julius Raizman. Yuli Raizman, however, was reluctant to approve Ulyanov for the role, because, as the actor said, “he did not like to shoot those who play a lot in films”.

The protagonist of the film seems to continue the series of characters of classic Russian literature: an extra person. The big boss, who was superfluous in his own family, becomes superfluous in the public sense, losing his position.

1985 year. "Field novel"

Pyotr Todorovsky's drama "A Field-of-War" was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. There is much in the main character Sasha from the director himself - both a real episode with pies (shortly after the war, the front-line soldier Todorovsky saw on the street the mistress of his battalion commander, a “front-line queen” selling pies), and personal war memories.

The performer of one of the main roles Inna Churikova at the Berlin Film Festival was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

When Todorovsky wrote the script for the film, all film studios refused it. Nobody wanted to shoot a film about everyday life, communal apartments and the difficult fate of former front-line soldiers. As a result, the Odessa Film Studio agreed to shoot the film. The budget of the painting was 380 thousand rubles (for comparison, in 1985 the Zhiguli car of the most popular 6th model cost 9 thousand rubles).

1992 year. "Urga - the territory of love"

The film-parable of Nikita Mikhalkov was shot in three languages ​​at once: Russian, Mongolian and Chinese. “Urga” is translated from Mongolian - “territory of love”.

The leading actors in the film are amateur actors, and the only professional actor on the set was Vladimir Gostyukhin. During the filming, the actors actually drank Chinese vodka, it has 60 degrees. “Sip, and she, the infection, back,” - said later Gostyukhin.

“I prefer to create an atmosphere in the shot, rather than then to create the illusion that this atmosphere existed,” - Nikita Mikhalkov recalled about the filming of the film.

“Urga is the territory of love”. Photo: video frame YouTube / VideoLand

1996 year. "Prisoner of the Caucasus"

The film by Sergei Bodrov Sr. about the first Chechen war, but in the storyline of the eponymous story of Leo Tolstoy. According to the scenario of the film, two Russian servicemen are captured by a resident of the Chechen aul Abdul-Murat.

One of them was played by the director's son Sergei Bodrov Jr., who actually went to the shooting as a handyman, but got the main role. For Bodrov Sr., it was important that he was filming a very human story, that it was already a hundred years old, the heroes had changed, but the essence had not.

In the credits of the film, Tolstoy is not mentioned, because this is not a film adaptation in the usual sense of the word. “From Tolstoy - just a message,” the director said.

1997. "Thief"

In the film by Pavel Chukhrai, the main roles were played by Vladimir Mashkov and Ekaterina Rednikova. The picture took 24th place in the list of 100 main Russian films according to the Afisha magazine. The film really became a hit, and little Misha Filipchuk, who played Sanya, woke up famous after the premiere of the film.

The film turned out about charm and about loneliness: a charming single mother, a charming boy, a charming thief.

Chukhrai himself said: “Thief” is my early childhood, memories that I wanted to materialize on the screen. It's not about the plot, but rather the atmosphere of that time ... I shot a ballad about my peer - about a boy. It is he who is the main character of the picture, and not Tolyan performed by Mashkov ”.

2007 year. "12"

Another film by Nikita Mikhalkov, nominated for an Oscar, is based on the play by American playwright Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men. By the way, it was for this play that student Mikhalkov staged his graduation performance at the Shchukin School.

Sergei Makovetsky, who played the role of one of the jurors in the film, said in an interview with the BBC Russian Service that “12” is “a very Russian film about our problems”. “Indeed, this is a Russian painting, because thanks to the confession of each juror, we gradually recognize and feel the whole life that surrounds us,” Makovetsky believes.

"12". Photo: video frame YouTube / VideoLand

One of the strokes to the portrait picture: Mikhalkov recorded live sound on the set. This required perfect silence, microphones caught the slightest rustling. Therefore, the crew was given soft felt slippers.

year 2014. "Leviathan"

Andrey Zvyagintsev's tape is a film interpretation of the story of the biblical Job. Leviathan is a terrible sea monster from the Old Testament. In Zvyagintsev's film, the Leviathan is a terrible state machine that grinds the life of a particular person. The film was shot in Kirovsk and the village of Teriberka on the shores of the Barents Sea.

After the premiere, the film was criticized for a long time and stubbornly, called Russophobic and not reflecting reality. The head of Teriberka considered the film “useless and implausible”.

And here is what TV presenter Vladimir Pozner wrote about the picture: “One can disagree with this. One can argue with Zvyagintsev, one can argue that everything is different. But what cannot be done is accuse him of Russophobia, because such a picture could only be made by a person who loves Russia very much, whose heart aches for her. "

The whale's skeleton from the Zvyagintsev film a year later was bought by an unnamed Russian businessman, Zvyagintsev told about this at a press conference. The skeleton was made of metal in Moscow, and then transported to the Murmansk region, where the shooting took place.

2017 year. "Dislike"

Another tape Zvyagintsev about the difficulties and pain of adult interpersonal relationships, for the confusion that is so easy to forget about his own child: not enduring the conflict between mom and dad, the boy leaves home.

There is no happy ending in the film: the boy is still missing, his parents divorced and live with new partners, they never became happy.

In an interview, the director said that his film is about dislike, which is “not a simple absence of love, but its antipode. And not the opposite side of the issue, not banal hatred or cold indifference, but something more ”.

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