2024-01-23 18:50:54
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#OscarsSoDeutsch
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Sandra Hülser nominated for Oscar
German actress Sandra Hülser has been nominated for an Oscar for the lead role in the drama “Anatomy of a Case”. The Los Angeles Film Academy announced this on Tuesday.
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Things couldn’t have gone better for Germany when the Oscar nominations were announced. Sandra Hülser is nominated for best actress, “The Teacher’s Room” and “Perfect Days” are nominated for best international film. And that’s not all.
#OscarsSoWhite was the name of a critical hashtag in 2015. In 2024 it would have to be called – from our point of view, of course less critical – #OscarsSoDeutsch. Things couldn’t have gone better for Germany when the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced yesterday.
The German contribution “The Teacher’s Room” by İlker Çatak was nominated for the best international film – alongside the Japanese contribution “Perfect Days” by the German director Wim Wenders, the British Auschwitz film “The Zone of Interest” in German with the German actress Sandra Hülser, “Io Capitano” from Italy and “Die Schneegesellschaft” from Spain.
Competing for the award for best film are “The Zone of Interest”, the French legal drama “Anatomy of a Case” (also with Sandra Hülser, who receives a nomination for best actress), “American Fiction”, “Barbie”, “The Holdovers,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Maestro,” “Oppenheimer,” “Past Lives,” and “Poor Things.” Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” leads, as expected, with 13 nominations, followed by Giorgos Lanthimo’s “Poor Things” with eleven, Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” with ten and Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” with eight.
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Although there can be no question of neglecting the biggest box office success of the year, it is surprising that Margot Robbie as Barbie should have no chance of winning the Oscar for best actress, just as Gerwig’s name is missing from the directing nominations. But the most exciting line of conflict no longer runs in the artificially created Barbenheimer border area, i.e. between the pink, glittering parody of feminism and the dark atomic bomb spectacle.
Two competing “Barbie” songs
At the awards ceremony in March, there will be concern over which “Barbie” song will win: Billie Eilish’s existentialist sigh of relief “What Was I Made For?”, which won the pop icon a Golden Globe, or Ryan Gosling’s joke ballad of injured masculinity “I’ m Just Ken,” which triumphed at the Critics’ Choice Awards.
Gosling’s astonished and disbelieving reaction spread as a meme on the Internet. Some celebrated the critics’ decision, which honored one of the funniest, most self-ironic and clever texts of the year. The others, however, saw exactly the patriarchal mechanism at work that “Barbie” wanted to denounce: that an average singing man still enjoys a higher reputation than female Grammy winners of the caliber of Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa.
But there is no need to force the argument between pop song and musical ballad into a gender corset again (from this perspective one would have to point out the complete overestimation of Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” compared to Sofia Coppola’s overlooked “Priscilla”, and the absence of Celine Song among them director nominees), but can also simply look forward to a double live performance that will hopefully take place in March. Because if we’ve learned anything else from “Barbie”, it’s that being number two is stupid (as Gosling’s nomination for best supporting actor instead of leading actor reminds us charmingly), but what doesn’t help is complaining. At most, you sing while you do it.
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