The cinematographic ceremony of the year since 1929, Los Angeles has offered us its annual cinema ceremony, which awards prizes intended for American and international cinema productions. All these distinctions represent the professions of cinematographic creation (directing, interpretation, scenario, technique) that the Association of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences directs.
The Academy Awards have once again recognized the best achievements and artistic works of the past year. According to its own principles and rules, the Los Angeles Committee opens this competition to films from around the world, which are distributed the year before the ceremony. This practice, which promoted American and English-language films, has evolved since the end of the Second World War by offering an Oscar for best film in foreign language.
To date, there have been very few films that have not been funded by Americans and have been awarded the Oscar for Best Film. There was “The Last Emperor” in 1988 by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italian film co-produced with China and the United Kingdom) and the French feature film “The Artist” in 2012.
A wind from South Korea has blown over Hollywood
This year, the awards go to the Korean Bong Joon-Ho for his film “Parasite”. He becomes the first artist in his country to obtain this distinction, for a non-English-language feature film. Completely shot and produced in Korea, it won both the Oscar for best film and the trophy for best international film.
This thriller which speaks of social inequalities in a rather satirical way, has won over the international public with a topical subject that is felt almost everywhere in the world. Already rewarded at the last Cannes festival with the Palme d’Or and the Golden Globe for the best foreign language film, the Korean Bong Joon-Ho thus confirms his previous nominations, with the success of his film. This is the first time that a South Korean film has obtained this double distinction in Hollywood, but also in the Sceen Actors Guild, and Bafta, which have rewarded British cinema, the equivalent of the Cesars in France.
The other awards go to Renée Zellweger, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her remarkable portrayal of Hollywood icon Judy Garland in the film “Judy”. A second statuette for the actress who won the Oscar for best supporting role in 2004 for “Return to Cold Mountain”.
The Oscar for Best Actor goes to Joaquin Phoenix, for his role as anti-hero in “Joker” by Todd Philips. This thriller released in 2019 is a great success. It tells the story of Arthur Fleck who turns into a dangerous psycho killer, becoming Batman’s greatest enemy. He received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2019, after having triumphed at the 2019 Golden Globes.
Brad Pitt was slated to receive the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, with his interpretation of stuntman Cliff Booth in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” by Quentin Tarantino.
This is a first for Brad Pitt in an interpretation category, having missed the boat three times. It is with a certain emotion that he evokes his beautiful and long career, and the memory of his arrival in Hollywood, when Ridley Scott offers him this role in “Thelma and Louise” in 1991. A great reward for the worthy successor of Robert Redford, another Hollywood film legend.
Actress Laura Dern receives the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” as a birthday present for her 53 years. She plays wonderfully the role of a mischievous and manipulative lawyer who gradually leads us into the daily life of this couple. The actress, who has already won five Golden Globe awards, has never received an Oscar. After a long career that she started very young in the 1980s, she finally received an award for all of her work in Hollywood.
Homage to the Last Sacred Monster in Hollywood Cinema
A major American film legend, Kirk Douglas passed away on February 5, 2020, at the age of 103. He is one of the most gifted and popular actors of his generation. Actor, producer, director, and writer, Kirk Douglas who is also the father of actor Michael Douglas, has worked with many well-known directors, such as Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick among others.
Many of his films have become classics of Hollywood cinema. He interpreted cult roles of adventurers like “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” in 1954, the “Vikings” in 1958, remarkable in this memorable western “Settlement of accounts at OK Corral” in 1957, or in the peplum “Spartacus In 1960. The list would be too long to sum up in a few titles, so successful was Kirk Douglas’ career.
Glamour Fashion and Beauty wanted to pay a singular tribute to this great actor who marked the history of Hollywood cinema, recognizable by his dimple under the chin, as well as another icon of American television Robert Conrad, deceased February 8, 2020 at the age of 84. The famous actor in the Mysteries of the West TV series “The Wild Wild West” who played the role of James West, with his sidekick Artemus Gordon, actor Ross Martin. Two secret agents who have to face all the dangers, as well as in “The Burned Heads” where he plays the role of an officer of the American army.
From television to cinema, the Academy Awards represent the oldest institution in the world of media and entertainment. Certain actors and actresses present at this ceremony, were not nominated nor Oscar winners. However, the Academy Awards remain the largest film industry in the world. Even if sometimes the choices can be controversial. The fact remains that the Academy Awards in terms of performance in the United States, are present in the fields of music with the (Grammy Awards), television with the (Emmy Awards) and theater with the ( Tony Awards).
