– On 21 December it will be known whether Paolo Sorrentino’s E ‘è stato la mano di Dio has entered the list of 15 titles (from 93) competing for the nominations for the best international film that will be announced on 8 February with all the others, while March 27 in Los Angeles is the date set for the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theater. And Sorrentino is not the only Italian to cross his fingers until Tuesday as the shortlist is also scheduled for Best Documentary this year (as well as documentary short, original song, original soundtrack, make-up and hairstyle, visual effects and shorts animated and live action). Among the 138 documentaries there are also Ennio by Giuseppe Tornatore, dedicated to the great composer Morricone, and Marx can wait by Marco Bellocchio, two wonderful films among many equally beautiful.
An intermediate step that of next week is really important and in these hours the so-called predictions for those categories run at high speed based on various factors none objective but still give the temperature of where you are going.
Sorrentino’s rivals are very strong and like him in the most important festivals, from Cannes to Venice: from the Norwegian The Worst Person in the World by Joachim Trier, to the Iranian A hero by Asghar Farhadi, from Titane by Julie Ducorneau to the Finnish Compartment n. 6 by Juho Kuosmanen, from the Danish Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen to the Japanese Drive my car by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, to name the main ones. Ours is in the squad, well placed.
The director, who in 2014 won with La Grande Bellezza, knows that the anticipation is great. The hopes of planting the tricolor again in Hollywood, seven years after the triumph of the elegant Jep Gambardella are on. “Compared to seven years ago there is more awareness because I understand how it works and I think there are so many variables that must coincide, variables that you can never control so you have to hope that the direction will take it for themselves. It’s a process long, complicated and then it’s full of good movies, “he admits. But the competition for the best international film is one of the open contests: for now they are just rumors, the road is really full of obstacles but with the new film Paolo Sorrentino can play the Oscars game for the first time in other categories as well. It was the hand of God, in the predictions – that is, the lists of specialized magazines such as Variety or Indiewire that continually update the rankings of probables based on certain parameters, dividing them into frontrunner, first row, next in line i.e. the second and contenders i.e. the possible but unlikely, the unlisted etc -, is in the running for the best film, best director, best actor with Filippo Scotti best original screenplay, oscillating between 20 / mo and 32 / mo place. This last category is the best placed one at the moment and would certainly not be less satisfying: it is written by himself, bringing out all the pains of adolescence.
Impossible to risk anything, it will take the hand of God, to play on the homage to Diego Armando Maradona, but also on Netflix.
The streaming giant, now an excellent protagonist in auteur film productions, has financed E ‘è stato la mano di Dio (produced by the director himself with Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment) and is also focusing on that title in the Oscar campaign. It is clearly not the only title, nor the strongest, as Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog is at the top of the main categories; there’s also the musical Tick, Tick… Boom! “Lin-Manuel Miranda, Adam McKay’s Dont ‘Look Up with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, as well as Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter, but it’s still a great investment. Sorrentino has made in these months he has been traveling to America to present the film, to make it known in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Virginia, “a slow march and let’s see what happens, we live for the day”, he says superstitious.
It was the hand of God that Italy nominated for the selection for the international Oscar, won the Grand Jury Prize in Venice 78 and the Mastroianni prize to the protagonist Filippo Scotti, a physicality at Timothee Chalamet, missed the target of the Efa, the European ‘oscars’, on Saturday 11 December going out empty-handed. Meanwhile, it is at the head of the most viewed in Italy on Netflix in these first days of streaming It is the most intimate, personal, bravest, most autobiographical film, it has been said since its premiere at the Lido in September, but above all it is a film that touches il cuore, a film about the pains of life, on the path that young people do not yet see for their future. At the center is the story of the alter ego Fabietto (Scotti) who, between the exaltation for Naples in the 80s crazy for Maradona and his personal tragedy (the accidental and premature loss of his parents), sees his way also thanks to the meeting with director Antonio Capuano: his future is cinema, in Rome. A formidable cast animates him: Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Luisa Ranieri, Massimiliano Gallo, Enzo Decaro, Renato Carpentieri. (HANDLE).
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