OWhether an Oscar would still go to Germany remained open almost until the last minute on Monday night in Los Angeles. The winner of the evening, however, only slowly emerged. The fact that “Oppenheimer” would dominate the 96th Academy Awards first became apparent when more than an hour of the gala had already passed. Until then, the Academy had distributed its awards almost evenly among the actors of all those films that were also nominated in the final “Best Film” category: The French Justine Triet and Arthur Harari received the trophy for the best original screenplay for the legal thriller “Anatomy of a Case”. “ and the Brit Jonathan Glazer won the award for “Best International Film” with the drama “The Zone of Interest” about the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höß.
It was therefore clear that the nominated German entry “The Teacher’s Room” by Ilker Çatak and the Japanese-nominated film “Perfect Days” by German director Wim Wenders received nothing in this category. Since the award for the best actress, for which Sandra Hülser, who was born in Thuringia, was also nominated for “Anatomy of a Case,” was only announced as one of the last categories, there was still a chance.
Costume, make-up and set design goes to “Poor Things”
“Poor Things,” meanwhile, picked up the three set awards for the design of the fantasy worlds and costumes in which Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo wander through the film, as well as for best makeup (fully deserved, if you look at Willem Dafoe’s wooden chiseled chin remind). Late night host Jimmy Kimmel, who hosted the evening for the fourth time in the history of the Oscars, sprinkled in, as usual, tips against and jokes about the nominees with a smile – for example about the length of Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller “Killers of the Flower Moon” (“it’s so long, you can go to Oklahoma in time and solve the murders there yourself”), Sandra Hülser’s roles in two nominated films (“Sandra plays a woman in “Anatomy of a Case”, who is on trial for the murder of her husband, and in “The Zone of Interest” a Nazi housewife who lives near Auschwitz. While these are very difficult topics for American filmgoers, in Sandra’s native Germany they are called Rome- Coms”) or the fact that Greta Gerwig wasn’t nominated as a director for the feminist blockbuster “Barbie” (“Now you don’t have to clap for her, you didn’t vote for her when it mattered”).
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Naked facts, pink Ken appearance and lots of tears
However, he had the most fun with John Cena’s appearance, who was supposed to announce the costume winners. Recalling an incident fifty years ago when a speedster ran across the stage behind actor David Niven, Cena peeked out from behind a pillar, unclothed, pretending to be graceful (“that’s too tacky for this place, Jimmy!” ) and then held the large envelope in front of the delicate parts of the body in which the winners’ names were written, which the wrestling star simply introduced with the words: “Costumes are…important”.
Nolan receives Oscar for best director and best film
Then began the triumph of Christopher Nolan’s film about the father of the atomic bomb, a risk in terms of content and form that was worth taking. “Oppenheimer” won a total of seven Oscars, both for the technical excellence: editing, camera and sound, but was also able to win almost all of the important main categories. Nolan, who had previously not been considered for his three nominated films “Memento” (2002), “Inception” (2011) and “Dunkirk” (2018), received his first Oscar as a director and was also able to win the award at the end of the evening as producer for the best film together with his wife, producer Emma Thomas.
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