Screenwriter comments on Oscar nominations and suggests “moving aside Scorsese to make room for Celine Song”

O Oscar reached its 96th edition under pertinent criticism, such as the lack of equity in nominations. Another major controversy surrounding the award is that Greta Gerwig It is Margot Robbie were not nominated in the Best Director and Best Actress categories, respectively, although Barbie secured eight nominations.

Without a doubt, the phenomenon Barbenheimer dominated social media and was a huge box office success, but, for the screenwriter Thais Falcao, Barbie should not compete for Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay: “Adaptation of what? The dolls of Mattel Aren’t they empty containers for girls to use as (perfect) protagonists of stories created as a game?”

And you can’t talk about Oscar this year without mentioning the phenomenon Barbenheimer. The biggest box offices of 2023 compete in several categories, including Best Film and Best Adapted Screenplay, the latter being a bit of a bitch with Oppenheimer given that Barbie parachuted into the category. Despite the WGA have recognized the script Barbie as an original, the Academy put its foot down and said it is ‘based on a pre-existing character’, in other words, an adaptation. But adaptation of what? The dolls of Mattel Aren’t they empty containers for girls to use as (perfect) protagonists of stories created as a game? In addition to the nomination for Best Director, the Academy also took away the originality of the make-believe Greta Gerwig.

“My suggestion would be to move away [Martin] Scorsese to make room for Celine Songdirector of Past lives“, he argued Hawk in exclusive comment to Rolling Stone Brazil.

Since we get into the subject of direction, which has only five vacancies in the category, my suggestion would be to remove Scorsese to make room for Celine Songdirector of Past livesor Alexander Paynedirector of The Rejected. However, even if they had been nominated, I believe they were a bit too subtle and human to stand out alongside megalomaniacal productions like those of Christopher Nolan or of Martin Scorsese. A feather.

Hawk has already done work for Netflix, Globoplay It is HBO Maxas Senna It is Beyond the Island — which was the first series produced by Globoplay and starring Paulo Gustavo. He also has experience working on the script for reality shows such as Power Couple, Drag Me As a Queen It is On Vacation with Ex.

Watch Oscar “It could be more worth it,” said the screenwriter.

In 2015 DB Weissshowrunner of game of Thronescame to Brazil and gave a lecture at the Rio Content Market (today Rio2C). The series was at its peak, hundreds of people were vying for seats in the auditorium to hear about the challenges of producing a series of obvious magnitude. At the same time as the speech of Weiss it inspired me, it also hit me hard, like a slap in the face of someone who says: “hey, wake up, Brazil is still a long way from producing something like this”. That’s more or less how I feel every time I watch the show. Oscar since the recognition of the film industry is closely linked to the millions invested in it.

She explained that the Academy is always keeping an eye on productions that receive large injections of money, which creates an even greater distance between Brazil and the famous golden statuette.

Is it still worth watching the awards show? It could be worth more. 2023 was a year of surprisingly diverse productions and the Academy, in the end, handpicked the “consciously bold” productions. What a delight to be able to root for films like Saltburn or bottoms in categories like Best Original Screenplay, for example. But the list of nominees in this category was not surprising. Not that it was a disappointment, after all, to see new talents like Samy Burch It is Alex Mechanikscreenwriters of Secrets of a Scandalgives a glimmer of hope that success doesn’t just lie with familiar faces.

Flávio Ermírio, in turn, has more questions than answers. He confessed: “I’m not the biggest fan of film awards. Of course, I recognize the vital importance that events of this nature have on the industry, on the careers of films and their directors.”

I have to confess: I’m not the biggest fan of film awards. Of course, I recognize the vital importance that events of this nature have on the industry, on the careers of films and their directors. But in fact, I’ve never been one of those people who makes a pool every year to determine the winners, I don’t remember the last time I stopped to watch the ceremony in full and I don’t remember the complete list of nominees from recent years — as every good film buff remembers. with reason.

Ermírio is a Brazilian director and screenwriter. Provoked by the desire and love for literature and cinema, he found the possibility of reconciling both influences in dramaturgy, mainly in the creation of scripts for theaters.

What interests me most in this ecosystem is trying to understand what leads a film or a person to be nominated and, eventually, chosen as the representation of the best that was produced in the year in its area — and what this vote can give clues about the moment we live in as an industry and, of course, as a society.

During the pandemic, in 2021, Flavio conceived an ambitious low-cost project, which would become the film The Tree House — in which he was director. Awarded at several international festivals (New York and Los Angeles), the filmmaker will represent Brazil at the end of 2024 at FANTLATAM, the main Fantasy Cinema awards in Latin America.

I received the list of nominees for the Oscar 2024 with great curiosity, like someone deciphering an ancient document, a map, for the first time. I immediately asked myself the question that remains on the lips of everyone who read the list: What does not indicating Greta Gerwig It is Margot Robbie for his work in Barbie to mean? As the director and protagonist of the highest-grossing film of 2023, the highest-grossing film in history for a film directed by a woman, and one of the very few films to surpass the $1 billion mark at the global box office, they were not nominated for the Oscar?

What caught the attention of Ermírio on the list of nominees for the Oscar 2024 was how the Academy ignored Robbiebut considered the performance of Ryan Gosling worthy of the prestige of the ceremony:

I venture to do some reading. The first, and most obvious, is how these absences show, once again, the lack of gender equality at the Academy. It would be difficult to theorize about technical and artistic aspects that could deconstruct this social bias and justify that the action of Ryan Gosling how Ken is deserving of an Oscar, and that of Margot Robbie like Barbie is not.

Flavio further noted that Gerwig is among the few directors nominated for the Oscar for Best Direction. He concluded, however, that awards of this type do a job that, for him, is impossible. According to the director, it is difficult to believe “that something as subjective as cinema can produce such accurate answers”.

As for the direction of Greta Gerwig, I think a little differently and in a more hybrid way. It is undeniable that any woman always finds it much more difficult to be nominated for Best Director than a man. The numbers are shameful: only 8 women have competed for the Director statuette in 95 years of the award. But despite the devastating statistics, Greta Gerwig is one of these 8 women, due to her exquisite Lady Bird 2018. Why didn’t history repeat itself in 2024?
As I said at the beginning, I’m not the biggest fan of Oscar and its like. Much of this is due to my difficulty in categorizing and ranking works of art and, mainly, my inability to believe that something as subjective as cinema can produce answers as accurate as: this is the best direction of the year! Therefore, I dare not give any certainty about the justice or injustice of the document that I analyzed with the names of artists that I admire — and envy — so much. What I leave you with is one more question. Does Barbiea film of overwhelming social relevance and engagement with the public, does it have the technical and artistic characteristics of a direction so out of the curve, so special and spectacular, to the point that its absence in the nomination for the Best Director category would be considered unfair?
The way in which Greta guided the nuances of interpretations, the coherence of language, the rhythm, the ballet between camera and mis en scene, were the emotional milestones of the film, and so many other decisions that the direction needed to make, extraordinary? Or is safe direction enough to turn a good idea into a film that will forever be in the history of cinema?

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