By akademiotoelektronik, 24/07/2022

"The Father", "Nomadland" What are the eight films in the running for the Oscar for the best film 2021?

Eight were retained by the Oscar Academy to run for the supreme award, the Oscar for the best feature film.Here they are.

The pandemic caused the cinemas in many countries but among those who have managed this year to make their way on the big screen - or exceptionally video platforms on demand -, eight were retained by the Academy of OscarsTo run for the supreme reward, the Oscar for best feature film.

"The Father"

Adapted from a play by Florian Zeller and directed by the French author himself, "The Father", featured in the legendary Anthony Hopkins, embarks the spectator in a terrifying journey to senile dementia.

The film takes place in a London apartment where the stubborn Anthony (Hopkins)), despite his fragile health, hunted the last in a long series of nursing assistants, forcing her daughter Anne (Olivia Colman)) to find a replacement for heremergency.

But appearances are often misleading in the life of this not so quiet father whose faculties deteriorate at full speed, blurring all his bearings and those of the spectator at the same time.

Acclaimed during its presentation at the Sundance Festival in January 2020, notably for the performance of Anthony Hopkins, The Father does not count among the Oscars of Oscars.

"Judas and the Black Messiah"

The past year has seen many films produced by black filmmakers featuring black actors but only Judas and the Black Messiah managed to win a nomination for the Oscar of the best feature film.

Moving away from the usual conventions of "biopic", the film tells the tragic story of Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya)) for half from the point of view of the charismatic black panthers, half of that of the FBI informant who l'A betray, William O'Neal (Lakeith Stanfield.))

Produced by Ryan Coogler, the director of success Marvel Black Panther, Judas and the Black Messiah takes place in the Chicago of the 1960s and follows Fred Hampton's efforts to mobilize the crowd against police brutality even though he is surrounded by theFBI with his supporters.

Last arrival in the Oscar race with a presentation to the press in February, the film still collected six nominations in total but it remains in the predictions.

"Mank"

Mank, the Ode of David Fincher at the golden age of Hollywood, holds the record for appointments this year, no less than ten.

Completely turned in black and white with an extreme concern for detail in the reconstruction, David Fincher's film stages, in a very romanticized way, the birth of the film Citizen Kane d'Orson Welles and his writing by the scriptwriter Herman Mankiewicz, playedby Gary Oldman.

Generally very alcoholic, Mank crosses paths with the titans who built Hollywood legend, like producers David O.Selznick, Louis B.Mayer and Orson Welles himself.

On paper, Mank had many assets to seduce the cinema professionals who make up the Oscar jury but the criticisms have been quite mixed, and it seems unlikely to win the price of the best feature film.

"Minari"

The American filmmaker of South Korean origin Lee Isaac Chung was preparing to give up the realization to become a teacher when he turned Minari, the last poker blow strongly inspired by his own childhood.

With dialogues in English and Korean, the film is a fundamentally American story, those of migrants who have left everything behind to cut a future in the great outdoors.In this case Minari follows a South Korean family who tries their luck in agriculture in the middle of the Arkansas of the 1980s.

The film brought together actors speaking Korean from both sides of the Pacific, including Steven Yeun, made famous by the Walking Dead series, and the South Korean star Yuh-Jung Youn.He endeavors to portray intimate relationships within this family without dwelling on questions of integration or racism.

Even if he has not necessarily unleashed passions, Minari was well received everywhere and is certainly the most consensual film of the selection.It appears as an outsider but has a chance to create surprise thanks to the very particular "preferential" voting system in force in the category of the best feature film.

"Nomadland"

It is rare for a film to dominate the fall festivals and continue to act as a big favorite of months later for the Oscars.But Nomadland, a unique hybrid of his kind of road movie, social drama and documentary that follows elderly Americans living on the roads after having lost everything during the crisis of "subprimes", succeeded in this feat.

In the film by Chloé Zhao, most of the actors are amateurs who play their own role, with the central character that of Fern, embodied by the Oscar -winning actress Frances McDormand, who initiated and produces the project.

It is directly inspired by an eponymous book published in 2017 by American journalist Jessica Bruder after staying among these nomads with gray hair that crisscross the United States in their small motorhomes, living between deserts and odd jobs, but free.

Most experts are betting on Nomadland as a big winner of the Oscar evening, and the film should also win statuettes in several other categories.

"Promising Young Woman"

With her pop songs, her candy pink aesthetics and a hitherto royally unknown director, promising Young Woman has nothing of the formatted film to win the Oscars.But it is a deliberately atypical film.

Pour son premier long-métrage, Emerald Fennell met en scène Cassie (Carey Mulligan)), une jeune femme qui cherche à venger le viol de sa meilleure amie par d'anciens camarades de promotion à l'université.

And as long as Cassie decides to sow terror among the machos of her hometown and those who are in his eyes their accomplices.The young woman hands her ambushes in bars.She pretends to be drunk to attract men playing the "gentle" and push them to reveal their misogyny.

With five nominations in total, he could keep his promises for the Oscar for the best feature film but the voting mode is usually not favorable to the films that have aroused controversy, as is the case for promising young women.

"Sound of Metal"

The Cinematographic Prize season for Sound of Metal was a long journey that started in 2019 at the Toronto Film Festival, with a progressive rise thanks to word of mouth that has never denied itself.

Aux Oscars, ce film indépendant à petit budget a décroché six nominations, un exploit pour une oeuvre traitant d'un sujet plutôt déprimant et pas très en vogue: Ruben, un batteur de heavy metal (joué par Riz Ahmed)) perd l'audition et souffre également de problèmes d'addiction.He is torn between his desire to find his faculties using expensive implants and the tranquility he begins to find within the deaf community.

If he is among the films having the least chance of winning, Sound of Metal has put a spotlight on the hearing impaired and more broadly on the way people with disabilities are treated by Hollywood.He could win statuettes in technical categories, especially for sound disciplines.

"The seven of Chicago"

With his prestigious casting, an experienced director-scope and a subject of extraordinary news, who coincided with the gigantic anti-racist demonstrations last summer and a controversial presidential election like never, the seven of Chicago checks most of the boxes necessary forWin an Oscar.

It was Steven Spielberg himself who asked Aaron Sorkin to write a story speaking of riots against the Vietnam War in Chicago in 1968 and the violent police and judicial repression that had followed.

Creator of the West Wing series, Aaron Sorkin finally also went behind the camera, attracting to the stars like Mark Rylance, Frank Langella, Sacha Baron Cohen and Eddie Redmayne.A distribution recently awarded by the coveted price of the American union of actors.