Who will compete for the Oscars DiCaprio and Pitt: new nominees for the award are named
'25.10.2019'
Source: Newspaper.ru
This year, the studios that presented their applicants for the Academy Award "Oscar" in most cases decided to separate the main stars of their films in the nominations "Best Actor" and "Best Supporting Actor" - this is what Sony executives did (“Once ... in Hollywood "), A24 and Netflix.
A number of film studios announced the list of actors whom they decided to nominate for the main Academy Award for the Academy Award, the nominees of which will be presented on 13 on January 2020, Indiewire writes.
In particular, the leadership of the Sony studio, which released Quentin Tarantino’s film “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” which many bookmakers call the main favorite of the upcoming ceremony, nominated two main roles for the award - Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
True, if DiCaprio will be presented in the nomination "Best Actor", then Pitt will have to compete for the title of "Best Supporting Actor." This will be Pitt’s fourth performance nomination for a major American film award - in 2009 and 2012, he was nominated for an Oscar as “Best Actor” for the films “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “The Man Who Changed Everything,” and in 1996, as "best supporting actor" for his role in "12 Monkeys" directed by Terry Gilliam.
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According to analysts, such a move puts Pitt in a winning position and increases his chances of winning, unlike DiCaprio, who received his Oscar recently - in 2016, thanks to the filming of Survivor in Alejandro González Iñárritu's film.
Other Sony nominees for the Academy Award were Matthew Rice and Tom Hanks - Rice could be the best actor and Hanks the best supporting actor.
The management of the A24 film company also decided to split in a similar way the two main actor nominations between the stars of the film “The Lighthouse” - the more experienced Willem Defoe, for whom the upcoming nomination for an Oscar could become the fifth of his career, will be presented as “best supporting actor”, while Robert Pattinson, recently confirmed as Batman in the new superhero movie, could be one of the favorites for Best Actor.
The Netflix streaming service likewise distributed the leading roles in its Vatican movie Two Dads. If Jonathan Price, for whom participation in the contest for the title of "best actor" will be the first nomination for an Academy Award, competes for the title of best actor, then the winner of the award Anthony Hopkins will be presented in the category "best supporting actor".
However, not all studios made a “Solomon decision”. So, representatives of Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox did not become modest and nominated both of the leading actors in the film "Ford vs. Ferrari" Matt Damon and Christian Bale as their two candidates for the American Academy nomination. Now, if they are nominated, Damon and Bale will have to compete not only with other colleagues in the acting department, but also with each other.
As for another major player, Warner Bros, the company has not yet submitted its candidacy, although almost all experts agree that it will nominate Joaquin Phoenix for the role of the Joker in the film of the same name.
The candidate for the American Film Academy nomination from Russia was the film of 28-year-old director Kantemir Balagov and producer Alexander Rodnyansky "Dylda" in the category "Best Foreign Language Film". This was announced on September 24 by the chairman of the Russian Oscar Committee Vladimir Menshov at a special meeting held in the Moscow Cinema House.
Director of the Department of Cinematography of the Ministry of Culture Olga Lyubimova said that the department supports the decision of the committee.
“We ourselves are always very interested in what decision the Russian Oscar Committee will make, and we were worried and rooting not only for Dylda, we would be glad if Anna's War was nominated for an Oscar, this is a great achievement,” she said.
Balagov’s film tells about front-line friends who in 1945 try to establish a peaceful life in Leningrad after the blockade. The main roles in the film were played by Victoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov and Igor Shirokov.
