La La Land, Moonlight, Hidden Figures, Manchester by the Sea and Arrival are emerging as the favorites to grab the Oscar nominations, to be announced tomorrow Academy looking to turn the page to racial controversy in recent years.
Everything indicates that «diversity will be fortunately the winner of the day,» said Chris Beachum, director of the Gold Derby site, which predicts nominations and prizes.
Moonlight (Moonlight) , which deals with the growth of a teenager in the middle of the drug war in Miami, should be nominated for Best Picture and Directing, Barry Jenkins, as well as performances by Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali.
Also include Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, for the family drama Fences , and Octavia Spencer for the blockbuster T alentos hidden , which has the extraordinary destiny of three black scientists who contributed to the success of the space program in the United States in the 50s and 60s.
«There are a lot of good movies with black both front and back camera, but there are still a lot of people who are not being represented by Hollywood movies, including Latinos or Hispanics, Asians, people with disabilities,» said Tim Gray. magazine Variety.
In fact, it is not expected that there will be more Latino nominees in this year, a year after Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu won his second consecutive Oscar and his compatriot Emmanuel Lubezki became the first director of photography to win three statuettes in a row.
April Reign, creator of the label #OscarsSoWhite, said that Hollywood certainly progressed in terms of inclusion, but clarified in an interview with public radio NPR that «a year can not fix a problem that takes 80».
And in the middle of the controversy, the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences committed last year to significantly increase the number of women and minority members by 2020.
The music of La La Land
Oscar nominations will be announced tomorrow morning and will be broadcast for the first time online.
Specialized sites give to La La Land as many indications 12 gives Variety and 13 Gold Derby, including Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in the acting categories.
Damien Chazelle’s tribute to the golden age of American musicals swept the Golden Globes this month, prevailing in the seven categories he played.
» I suspect that La La Land and Hidden Figures receive many nominations because they are films that have impressed people for work in front and behind camera (costumes, production design, music) , » said Gray.
«It’s still too early to predict who will win. The awards are February 26 and anything can happen in a month, «he added.
Manchester by the Sea drama about a lonely man who must care for his orphaned nephew, is also presented as a strong candidate to win several nominations, including Best Actor with the extraordinary role of Casey Affleck.
They sound hard in the Best Actress category names Amy Adams, in the science fiction film The arrival and Natalie Portman, for his acclaimed personification of the former first lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy in the film directed by Chilean Pablo Larraín.
At the Golden Globes was the favorite to win the prize, but it ultimately led the French Isabelle Huppert for her role in the thriller Elle , which tells the story of a woman who was raped in her home and tries to find the perpetrator .
The film by Paul Verhoeven did not pass the cut of Best Film in Non-English Language, category that did take in the Golden Globes.
«After a surprise win at the Golden Globes, I think not only Isabelle Huppert will get the nomination, but she will be a strong candidate», Beachum added.
France ‘s Marion Cotillard won the prize in 2008 for her role in La Vie en Rose on the history of the legendary singer Edith Piaf.
