Por Marie-Louise Gumuchian
LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) – “Oppenheimer,” a three-hour epic about the making of the atomic bomb in World War II, was the big winner at the BAFTA film awards on Sunday, winning top honors for best film and best director, as well as five other awards.
The film, one of the highest-grossing films of 2023, was also awarded with awards for lead actor Cillian Murphy, who plays the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, for supporting actor Robert Downey Jr, for editing, for photography and for the band. original sound.
Nolan, who won his first BAFTA for directing, thanked the cast and crew in his acceptance speech.
“In the real world there are all kinds of people and organizations who have fought hard to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world… By accepting this award, I want to recognize their efforts,” he added.
Like Nolan, Murphy was the favorite to win his category and in his acceptance speech he referred to the man known as “the father of the atomic bomb.”
“Oppenheimer was a colossally mischievous and complex character, and he meant different things to different people,” Murphy said.
“One man’s monster is another man’s hero. That’s why I love movies, because we have a space to celebrate and interrogate and investigate that complexity.”
Emma Stone picked up the lead actress award for the sex-charged gothic comedy “Poor Things,” which took home five awards in total.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph won the supporting actress award for her role in “The Holdovers,” a comedy set at an all-boys boarding school.
“The Zone of Interest,” about the Auschwitz commandant and his family, who live next to the Nazi death camp, won three awards: outstanding British film, non-English film and sound.
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The courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall” won the night’s top prize, original screenplay. The adapted screenplay was for the comedy-drama “American Fiction,” based on the 2001 novel “Easure” by Percival Everett.
Best documentary went to “20 Days in Mariupol,” journalist Mstyslav Chernov’s personal account of the 2022 siege of the Ukrainian city.
As well as the celebrities attending the ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on the River Thames in central London, the guest list also included BAFTA President Prince William.
The ceremony, known as the BAFTAs (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), was presented by actor David Tennant.
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Hugh Lawson, David Holmes and Angus MacSwan, Editing in Spanish by Juana Casas)
2024-02-19 04:20:30
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