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  • Oscars 2021: In a shock, Anthony Hopkins wins greatest actor for ‘The Father’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Veteran Hollywood star Anthony Hopkins gained one of the best actor award on the 93rd Academy Awards for his position in “The Father”. It was a shock win for the actor as many anticipated the Academy to honour late star Chadwick Boseman for his efficiency in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”.

    In the previous couple of weeks actor Riz Ahmed had additionally emerged as a challenger for his efficiency in “Sound of Metal”. Boseman died in 2020 after a secret four-year battle with colon most cancers. Other nominees within the class have been Gary Oldman and Steven Yeun.

    It is the second Academy award for the 83-year-old actor after his extensively liked flip as serial killer Hannibal Lector in 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs”. Hopkins had earned nominations previously for his roles in “The Remains of the Day” and “Nixon” and as a greatest supporting actor for “The Two Popes” and “Amistad”.

    Directed and co-written by Florian Zeller, “The Father”, is tailored from his personal critically acclaimed play ‘Le Pere’ (‘The Father’), which takes a uncooked and unflinching have a look at dementia, inspecting how the traces between actuality and delusion blur because the illness takes over.

    It revolves round an ageing man, Anthony (Hopkins) who battles his personal diminishing thoughts. When his caring daughter (Olivia Colman) is compelled to decide on between the ailing dad or mum and transferring to Paris together with her new discovered love, the duo’s bond is put to the last word take a look at.

    The movie additionally options actors Mark Gatiss and Imogen Poots. The veteran star has already gained British Academy Film Awards for “The Father”. Hopkins will subsequent be seen in indie characteristic movie “Where Are You”, alongside his “Westworld” co-star Angela Sarafyan in addition to actors Camille Rowe, Madeline Brewer, Mickey Sumner and Ray Nicholson.

    Valentina De Amicis and Riccardo Spinotti will co-direct the movie from a screenplay they wrote with Matt Handy.

  • 93rd Oscars: ‘Nomadland’ luggage Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins wins Best Actor for ‘The Father’

    By Associated Press
    Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland”, a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads throughout the American West, gained finest image Sunday on the 93rd Academy Awards, the place the China-born Zhao additionally grew to become simply the second lady to win finest director, and the primary lady of colour.

    The “Nomadland” victory, whereas extensively anticipated, nonetheless capped the extraordinary rise of Zhao, a lyrical filmmaker whose successful movie is simply her third, and which – with a funds lower than USD 5 million and that includes a forged populated by non-professional actors – ranks as one of the modest-sized motion pictures to win Hollywood’s prime honor.

    Zhao’s subsequent movie, Marvel’s “Eternals”, has a funds roughly 40 instances that of “Nomadland”. Only Kathryn Bigelow, 11 years in the past for “The Hurt Locker”, had beforehand gained finest director. But “Nomadland”, as a plain-spoken meditation on solitude, grief and grit, caught a chord in a pandemic-ravaged 12 months. It made for an unlikely Oscar champ: A movie about individuals who gravitate to the margins took heart stage.

    “I have always found goodness in the people I’ve met everywhere I went in the world. This is for anyone who has the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves and to hold on the goodness in other no matter how difficult it is to do that,” mentioned Zhao when accepting finest director.

    With a howl, “Nomadland” star Frances McDormand implored individuals to hunt out her movie and others on the massive display screen. Released by the Disney-owned Searchlight Pictures, “Nomadland” premiered at a drive in and debuted in theaters, however discovered its largest viewers on Hulu.

    “Please watch our movie on the largest screen possible and one day very, very soon, take everyone you know into a theater, shoulder to shoulder in that dark space, and watch every film that’s represented here tonight,” McDormand mentioned.

    Soon after, McDormand gained finest actress, too. The win places McDormand (beforehand a winner for “Fargo” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) in uncommon firm as a three-time appearing winner. Only Katherine Hepburn (a four-time winner) has gained finest actress extra instances.

    In the evening’s greatest shock, finest actor went to Anthony Hopkins for the dementia drama “The Father”. The award had been extensively anticipated to go to Chadwick Boseman for his closing efficiency in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”. Hopkins was not in attendance.

    The most formidable award present held through the pandemic, the Oscars rolled out a crimson carpet and restored some glamour to the almost century-old film establishment, however with a a lot reworked – and in some methods downsized – telecast.

    It was a 12 months when, to paraphrase Norma Desmond, the images acquired smaller have been overwhelmingly seen within the residence, not within the large display screen, throughout a pandemic 12 months that pressured theaters shut and prompted radical change in Hollywood.

    It was additionally maybe the various Academy Awards ever, with extra girls and extra actors of colour nominated than ever earlier than – and Sunday introduced a litany of information and firsts throughout many classes, spanning all the things from hairstyling to composing to appearing.

    It was, some observers mentioned, a sea change for an awards harshly criticized as “OscarsSoWhite” in recent times, main the movie academy to enormously increase membership.

    The ceremony – original as a film of its personal and styled as a laidback occasion – kicked off with opening credit and a slinky Regina King entrance, because the digital camera adopted the actress and “One Night in Miami” director in a single take as she strode with an Oscar in hand into Los Angeles’ Union Station and onto the stage.

    Inside the transit hub (trains stored working), nominees sat at cozy, lamp-lit tables round an intimate amphitheater. Some moments – like Glenn Close getting right down to “Da Butt” – have been extra relaxed, however the ceremony could not simply shake off the previous 14 months. “It has been quite a year and we are still smack dab in the middle of it,” King mentioned.

    Daniel Kaluuya gained finest supporting actor for “Judas and the Black Messiah”. The win for the 32-year-old British actor who was beforehand nominated for “Get Out”, was extensively anticipated. Kaluuya gained for his fiery efficiency because the Black Panther chief Fred Hampton, whom Kaluuya thanked for displaying him “how to love myself”.

    “You’ve got to celebrate life, man. We’re breathing. We’re walking. It’s incredible. My mum met my dad, they had sex. It’s amazing. I’m here. I’m so happy to be alive,” mentioned Kaluuya whereas cameras caught his mom’s confused response.

    With the awards capping a 12 months of nationwide counting on race and coming days after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted for killing George Floyd, police brutality was on the minds of many attendees. King mentioned that if the decision had been totally different, she may need traded her heels for marching boots.

    Travon Free, co-director of the live-action quick winner “Two Perfect Strangers”, wore a go well with jacket lined with the names of these killed by police. His movie dramatizes police brutality as an inescapable time loop like a tragic “Groundhog’s Day” for Black Americans.

    “Today, the police will kill three people. And tomorrow, the police will kill three people. And the day after that, the police will kill three people because on average, the police in America everyday kill three people, which amounts to about a thousand people a year. Those people happen to disproportionately be Black people,” mentioned Free.

    Best supporting actress went to Yuh-Jung Youn for the matriarch of Lee Isaac Chung’s tender Korean-American household drama “Minari”.

    The 72-year-old Youn, a well known actress in her native South Korea, is the primary Asian actress to win an Oscar since 1957 and the second in historical past. She accepted the award from Brad Pitt, an government producer on “Minari”. “Mr. Brad Pitt, finally. Nice to meet you,” mentioned Youn.

    Hairstylists Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” grew to become the primary Black girls to win in make-up and hairstyling. Ann Roth, at 89 one of many oldest Oscar winners ever, additionally gained for the movie’s costume design.

    The evening’s first award went to Emerald Fennell, the writer-director of the provocative revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman”, for finest screenplay. Fennell, successful for her function debut, is the primary lady win solo within the class since Diablo Cody (“Juno”) in 2007.

    The broadcast immediately seemed totally different. It’s being shot in 24 frames-per-second and in additional widescreen format. In a extra intimate present with out an viewers past nominees, winners got wider latitude of their speeches.

    The telecast, produced by a crew led by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, moved out of the awards’ regular residence, the Dolby Theatre, for Union Station. With Zoom dominated out for nominees, the telecast included satellite tv for pc feeds from all over the world. Performances of the music nominees have been pre-taped and aired through the preshow.

    “Husavik (My Hometown)” from “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,” was preformed from the Iceland city’s harbor. Others have been sung from atop of the academy’s new USD 500 million movie museum.

    Pixar notched its eleventh finest animated function Oscar with “Soul”, the studio’s first function with a Black protagonist. Peter Docter’s movie, a couple of about middle-school music trainer (Jamie Foxx), was one of many few big-budget motion pictures within the working on the Academy Awards.

    (It additionally gained finest rating, making Jon Batiste the second Black composer win the award, which he shared with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.) Another was Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” which final September tried to resuscitate moviegoing through the pandemic, took finest visible results.

    David Fincher’s “Mank”, a lavishly crafted drama of Nineteen Forties Hollywood made for Netflix, got here within the lead nominee with 10 nods and went residence with award for cinematography and for manufacturing design.

    Best tailored screenplay went to the dementia drama “The Father”. “My Octopus Teacher”, a movie that discovered a passionate following on Netflix, gained finest documentary. Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” gained finest worldwide movie, an award he devoted to his daughter, Ida, who in 2019 was killed in a automobile crash at age 19.

    The crimson carpet was again Sunday, minus the throngs of onlookers and with socially distanced interviews. Only a handful of media retailers have been allowed on website, behind a velvet rope and far from the nominees.

    Casual put on, the academy warned nominees early on, was a no-no. Stars, restricted to a plus-one, went with out their regular battalions of publicists.

    But even good present might not be sufficient to save lots of the Oscars from an anticipated scores slide. Award present scores have cratered through the pandemic, and this 12 months’s nominees – lots of them smaller, lower-budget dramas – will not come near the drawing energy of previous Oscar heavyweights like “Titanic” or “Black Panther”. 

    Last 12 months’s Oscars, when Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” grew to become the primary non-English language movie to win finest image, was watched by 23.6 million, an all-time low. Sunday’s pandemic-delayed Oscars bring to a halt the longest awards season ever – one which turned the season’s industrial advanced of cocktail events and screenings digital.

    Eligibility was prolonged into February of this 12 months, and for the primary time, a theatrical run wasn’t a requirement of nominees. Some movies – like “Sound of Metal” – premiered all the way in which again in September 2019.

    The greatest ticket-seller of the very best image nominees is “Promising Young Woman,” with $6.4 million in field workplace.

  • Working in ‘The Father’ made me take into consideration my previous: Anthony Hopkins

    By IANS
    NEW DELHI: Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman play father and daughter in Florian Zeller’s complicated relationship drama, “The Father”. The movie has garnered six Oscar nominations, together with one in Best Actor class for Hopkins, for his function of an eighty-plus man battling dementia, and one in Best Supporting Actress class for Colman, who performs his conflict-ridden daughter.

    The respective roles, in addition to enacting the connection for display, was emotionally exhausting for the 2 acclaimed actors, and so they confess coming again with self-realisation from the capturing expertise of the movie, which is predicated on a play titled “Le Pere” by Zeller.

    “When you are working for years, the good plays and films make you go around examining life. This one made me think about my past, my parents and particularly the sweet sadness of it all,” mentioned Hopkins.

    He recalled how the significantly emotional final scene wasn’t working initially. “The last scene didn’t work and we had a little break. I went around the set, saw the chair where I used for sit. There was a photograph of my daughters and myself in younger days and the camera pasts and goes out of the window. That hit me,” mentioned the actor.

    For Hopkins, the movie introduced again many reminiscences. “I remember the time I took my mother to the hospital when my father had died, and I still remember looking at him and his feet were cold. This was almost 40 years ago and I remember thinking that ‘yeah, you are not so hot either. There he is and one day I will be there’. That’s a wonderful thing — and I know it is weird to say that it’s a wonderful thing — but it’s good to remember that it’s all gone with the wind. I remember I found his glasses, and he had a little notebook with a map of America. He wanted to come to America, and I told him that I would take him. Of course, he was unwell and I promised him, to cheer him up, that when he gets out of the hospital, I would take him to New York and drive across,” he recalled.

    “I remember he was one day sitting in hospital looking at the map and he had wet himself his pyjamas and I remember that while doing the scene that it’s all so fragile. That’s what I realise now more and more — that’s all so fragile. But I am aware of fragility. It makes me enjoy life more, I have a laugh now. I like watching old guys on television who have gone like Sinatra and others. There is a great victory in all this by recognising death and mortality. Well, I am here and I have survived all these years,” the actor mentioned.

    For Colman, the movie was a reminder of how merciless the method of growing old may truly be.

    “It made me think of my parents, and ageing can be so cruel and rude. My mum used to say that every generation thinks they have invented sex but, of course, everyone has been in love and passionate. My parents are still in love but it’s unfair that it’s difficult for them to go upstairs and eventually I will be like that. It did make me think of them and I am so pleased that they are still together and happy,” she mentioned.

    To this, Hopkins added: “Olivia talked about parents getting old. I am going to be 83 at end of the year, my legs ache. When I was doing the film, I found that my brain was playing tricks with me because it was sending messages to my back that I am an old man. So, every morning I had to tell myself that I am just acting and pretending, because your body reacts to what your brain is saying. But I have accepted that my knees ache, I can’t go running anymore.”

    “The great psychiatrist Karl Jung once said that when you reach your forties and fifties everything is fine, and then there is something you see at the horizon and that’s death and it makes you appreciate life. That’s a wake-up call that there is nothing so special about any of us. It’s kind of humbling that we are not that hot and all the glory is gone,” the veteran actor added.

    Hopkins and Colman have been interacting with IANS at a press meet for choose media, additionally attended by the movie’s screenwriter-director Florian Zeller.

    Zeller, who has a nomination on the Oscars this 12 months within the Best Adapted Screenplay class for his work within the movie (collectively with Christopher Hampton), opened up about his means of adapting his play into the movie.

    “I kept the narrative of the play, which is trying to tell the story from the inside, and to put the audience in a specific position to try to understand what is going on, and look for exit and meaning. For me it was the opportunity to play with disorientation. I didn’t want the father to be just a story. I wanted it to be an experience. To innovate with the experience, frustration, anxiety, uncertainty — to what it means to lose your bearings. So, it was taken from the play,” defined Zeller.

    “But I didn’t want it to just be the play, I wanted it to be cinematic as possible so I tried to do what only cinema can do. It was mainly about using the set, for example, in a cinematic way. When I wrote the script, I drew the layout at the same time as if it was the main character in the story. In the beginning when we are entering the house, there is no doubt that we recognise his space, his furniture, his knick-knacks and, step by step, slightly always in the background you have some small changes, some metamorphosis of the set, of the apartment so that it creates this feeling that you know where you are and at the same time you are not certain where you are and it’s the beginning of doubting process,” the filmmaker added.

    “I wanted to play with the feeling of disorientation with the set. That’s why there are so many corridors and doors because I wanted to play with it. Meaning that you recognise the way to travel into that space but something had happened but you don’t know what happened, so that you are constantly uncertain of where you are. In a way it was very concrete and visual that it would tell a story of being lost. What was challenging and exciting for me was to do it in the background when you are focused on the character. That is why I shot the film in the studio, so that I had this liberty to do whatever I wanted to — be able to remove a wall, change proportion or colours of walls in a minute, almost,” Zeller sums up.

  • Anthony Hopkins’ Oscar-nominated ‘The Father’ to hit theatres in India on April 23

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: “The Father”, starring Oscar winners — veteran actor Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman — will launch within the theatres in India on April 23. The movie, directed and co-written by Florian Zeller, is nominated in six classes on the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards.

    Adapted from Zeller’s critically acclaimed play “Le Pere” (“The Father”), the film takes a uncooked and unflinching take a look at dementia, inspecting how the strains between actuality and delusion blur because the illness takes over.

    It revolves round an ageing man Anthony (Hopkins) who battles his personal diminishing thoughts. When his caring daughter (Colman) is compelled to decide on between the ailing guardian and transferring to Paris along with her new discovered love, the duo’s bond is put to the final word check.

    The movie additionally options actors Mark Gatiss and Imogen Poots PVR Pictures is releasing “The Father” in India.

  • Mank, Sound of Metal, Nomadland and 12 different Hollywood films to observe this awards season

    2020 was an attention-grabbing 12 months for Hollywood. While there have been only a few theatrical releases, cinema buffs had no scarcity of latest content material as streaming companies stored them entertained.
    With the massive award exhibits of 2021 simply across the nook, it’s that point of the 12 months after we take a look at the very best of cinema from 2020.
    Here are 15 Hollywood movies that it’s essential to watch earlier than the award season begins:
    1. Sound of Metal

    Sound of Metal follows drummer Ruben Stone (Riz Ahmed) who loses his listening to. Ruben begins to lose his listening to whereas drumming on stage and has to make appreciable adjustments in his life. Ruben believes that surgical procedure would possibly get his life again to the so-called ’regular’. Hence regardless of discovering friendships and relationships in his new house, he craves to go away all of it behind to get again to his previous life. Written and directed by Darius Marder, Sound of Metal boasts a powerful sound design and a transferring efficiency by Ahmed.
    2. Nomadland

    Nomadland follows Frances McDormand’s Fern who describes herself as “houseless, not homeless” as a consequence of her nomad-like existence. She used to work in its place instructor and has now taken up a brief job at an Amazon warehouse. As she meets fellow nomads, she finds the assist of a group in a world the place they’re all dwelling lonely lives. Directed by Chloe Zhao, Nomadland is a frontrunner within the awards race.
    3. The Trial of the Chicago 7

    Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7 follows the protests by Chicago Seven towards the Vietnam War through the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The movie, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Flaherty, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Jeremy Strong, is the frontrunner for varied ensemble forged awards. In true Sorkin type, the movie is fast-paced and retains you on the sting of your seat by its run. With wonderful performances by Cohen and Langella, and Sorkin’s sharp writing, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is likely one of the finest movies to have come out in 2020.
    4. Minari

    Minari is the story of a Korean household dwelling in rural America as they work laborious to realize their ‘American dream’. The intimate portrait of a household that’s attempting laborious to slot in, but additionally attempting to succeed whereas retaining their traditions is heart-wrenching. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the movie, starring Steven Yeun and Han Ye-ri in key roles, was nominated within the foreign-language class on the Golden Globes which created controversy as many believed that the movie ought to have gotten nominated within the Best Film class as a substitute.
    5. Mank

    Mank follows Gary Oldman’s Herman J Mankiewicz as he writes Citizen Kane. While the writing credit score of Citizen Kane has been a contentious challenge because it first launched, Mank tries to show that the plot of the movie was, actually, impressed by occasions that occurred to Mankiewicz. Directed by David Fincher, Mank boasts of spectacular performances by Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried.
    6. Promising Young Woman

    Promising Young Woman talks about points like rape and sexual harassment that plague our society however are sometimes disregarded as ‘not-so-serious’ by these in energy. The movie follows Carey Mulligan’s Cassie who desires to take revenge for the loss of life of her buddy Nina. Nina was raped in school, however the authorities by no means took her assertion severely, and the accused went scot-free. Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman has been garnering reward for Fennell’s writing and Mulligan’s efficiency.
    7. Da 5 Bloods

    This struggle drama by Spike Lee is about towards the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The movie follows 4 struggle veterans who return to Vietnam to search for the gold they buried through the struggle as in addition they attempt to discover the stays of their squad chief, performed by Chadwick Boseman. The Netflix movie additionally stars Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis and Isiah Whitlock Jr amongst others.
    8. The Father

    The Father premiered on the Sundance Festival 2020 and acquired rave opinions. The movie follows a daughter, performed by Olivia Colman, as she sees her father, performed by Anthony Hopkins, lose his reminiscence and battle along with his day-to-day life. His grip on actuality is weakening, and watching him disintegrate is getting harder on her each single day. The movie is written and directed by Florian Zeller.
    9. One Night in Miami

    Directed by Regina King, One Night in Miami constructs a fictional world the place we get to see Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke have a dialog about points which are related to today. Their private variations are evident, which is what makes their dialog attention-grabbing. One Night in Miami stars Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr.
    10. Ammonite

    Ammonite premiered on the Toronto International Film Festival and has since garnered loads of reward due to the performances of Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. Directed by Francis Lee, the movie follows Mary, performed by Winslet, and Charlotte, performed by Ronan, as they discover love in every others’ firm.
    11. Palm Springs

    Starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, this Groundhog Day-like movie has the 2 lead characters dwelling the identical day over and over as they begin questioning the which means of life. Directed by Max Barbakow, this romantic comedy, additionally starring JK Simmons, is likely one of the shock hits of 2020.
    12. Pieces of a Woman

    Pieces of a Woman follows a pair after they lose their baby throughout a house delivery. Martha, performed by Vanessa Kirby, is attempting laborious to deal with her loss as she tries getting again to her previous life. Sean, performed by Shia LaBeouf, turns to his habit. Martha’s household is suing the midwife as they imagine it’s her negligence that brought about the child’s loss of life. Directed by Kornel Mundruczo, the movie’s plot unfolds as Martha tries to place her life again collectively and the midwife faces trial.
    13. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

    Directed by George C Wolfe, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is about within the Twenties as Viola Davis’ Ma Rainey, a celebrated performer, tries to get again management of her life and profession from her white supervisor. The movie marked the final display screen look of Chadwick Boseman, who handed away on August 28 final 12 months after an extended battle with most cancers.
    14. Judas and the Black Messiah

    Judas and the Black Messiah is impressed by a real-life incident involving Black Panther Party chief Fred Hampton, who was betrayed by an FBI informant posing as one in every of his personal through the Nineteen Sixties. The movie stars Daniel Kaluuya within the lead position of Hampton, and Lakeith Stanfield performs William O’Neal, the titular Judas. Jesse Plemons performs the FBI agent who vegetation William within the shut circle of Hampton. The movie is written and directed by Shaka King.
    15. The Mauritanian

    The Mauritanian follows the trial of a suspected terrorist who has been imprisoned for his involvement in 9/11 however unusually, he has by no means been charged with any crime, and there appears to be no proof towards him. The movie questions the insurance policies of the United States authorities as they waged a struggle towards terror and labelled individuals as terrorists on questionable proof. Based on a real story, this Kevin Macdonald directorial stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim and Shailene Woodley.