A remarkable awards season for Wild Momentum Swings saw another great shift on Saturday night with the greatest “anora” honors of Sean Baker of the directors and producers' guilds.
Baker picked up the guild of directors of America around 9 pm at Beverly Hilton, delivered an emotional speech, posed for photos and was then accelerated by Santa Monica Boulevard to the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, where he arrived in time to watch his movie prevail at the Ceremony of the Producers of America.
“My impostor syndrome is shooting at this time, as well as my cortisol levels,” Baker said, accepting the DGA award.
The Free Wheeling of Baker's fractured fairy tale about an intoxicating relationship of a Brooklyn sex worker and, ultimately, a heartbreaking relationship with the son of a Russian oligarch, now it is now maintained once again, as the favorite to win The Oscar of the best image next month in the 97th Academy Awards.
It is a hanger that “Anora” had enjoyed after taking the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, where his world was released in May. He collected more impulse when he opened in October to ecstatic criticisms. But after “Anora” could not receive any prize last month in the Golden Globes, it was thought that the film could have reached its maximum point too soon, eclipsed by subsequent arrivals such as “The Brutalist” and “a complete stranger” .
When Oscar nominations were announced on January 23, “Anora” collected all the nods that was expected to win: image, director, original script, the main actress Mikey Madison, the support actor Yura Borisov and the cinematographic edition. But several films enjoyed great ribbons, including “Emilia Pérez”, which obtained 13 leading nominations.
But “Emilia Pérez”, the musical soap opera in Spanish produced by the French on a head of the Mexican poster who makes the transition to a woman, was soon involved in controversy, criticized for her representation of trans people and excorited by insensitivity and a insensitivity and a lack of representation.
Last week, his star Karla Sofía Gascón, the first transor nominated for an Oscar, faced a violent reaction after the Canadian journalist Sarah Hagi shared captures of offensive publications screen that Gascon wrote in Spanish, expressing insensitive opinions about Islam , Muslims and George Floyd.
Gascón apologized, eliminated his X account, but then he did an interview with CNN in Spanish, saying: “I have been convicted, sacrificed and crucified and stoned without a trial and without the option of defending me.”
The bad vibrations surrounding Gascón and the Netflix film created a void in the best images race. Many thought that “the brutalist”, a portrait of an immigrant architect who examines the relationship between pattern and artist, while considering the purpose and lasting value of art, could fill the void. But that film was also tangled in controversy when it was reported that it had used the behind the scene.
“The whole campaign for that film was about defending human creativity, so when it came out, it felt a bit contaminated,” a voter from the Oscars recently told me.
“The brutalist” can also have been injured by another of his points of sale: his execution time of three and a half hours. It is an event movie. But if voters cannot wrap their heads, and their schedules, around that type of investment in time, it is in danger of losing votes.
The Screen actors guild awards are still the last important ceremony before the Oscars. But its February 23 show will be broadcast after the Oscar vote is over, denying the impact of any speech and moments of celebration. (The Oscar vote begins on Tuesday and extends until February 18), however, SAG is another place where “Anora” met expectations, collecting nominations for the whole and individual settlements for Madison and Borisov .
Before we let ourselves be too, it is worth noting that not all the films that won the honors of PGA and DGA won the Oscar best photo. “Apollo 13” lost at the 1996 academy awards against “Braveheart”. Three years later, “Shakespeare in Love” surpassed “Saving Ryan” by Steven Spielberg. “Crash”, infamously, won the Oscar on “Brokeback Mountain.” More recently, “La La Land” won the highest honors of DGA and PGA, just to lose the Oscar (once they found the correct envelope) to the “moonlight.”
But for now, “Anora” is in front. And even if this marvel budgeted with $ 6 million falls short in the Oscars, the shock and astonishment of its two fer with the unions will not be forgotten by its creator.
Late on Saturday, responding to a text message that I sent him, Baker wrote: “I hope he wakes me up in the morning and is still true.” Sweet. That message followed with another who wore an image of cartoons. “That is my dog with an 'anora' thong.”
Actually, is there anything why “Anora” is in front?
