Oscars 2024: “The Zone of Interest” with Sandra Hülser wins the award for “Best International Film” | EUROtoday

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Dhe British Auschwitz drama “The Zone of Interest” by Jonathan Glazer has gained the Oscar for finest worldwide movie. The US Film Academy introduced this in Hollywood on Monday evening. This signifies that the German contribution “The Teacher’s Room” by Ilker Çatak, which was nominated on this class, and the Japanese movie “Perfect Days” by Wim Wenders, which was nominated for Japan, went away empty-handed.

“The Zone of Interest” follows the on a regular basis lifetime of the household of focus camp commander Rudolf Höß, who lives proper subsequent to the Auschwitz focus camp. Two Germans, Sandra Hülser and Christian Friedel, play the main roles on this five-time nominated drama.

The grotesque comedy “Poor Things” has thus far gained three Oscars on the awards ceremony – for costume design, make-up design and manufacturing design. The Oscar for Best Supporting Actress went to Da'Vine Joy Randolph. The 37-year-old acquired the trophy for her function within the drama “The Holdovers” and tearfully thanked her.

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„The Zone of Interest“

The Oscar for Best Original Screenplay went to Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for “Anatomy of a Case.” “This will help me through my midlife crisis,” Triet mentioned in her acceptance speech. The award for finest authentic screenplay went to Cord Jefferson for the movie “American Fiction,” which known as on the movie trade to spend money on extra smaller tasks as a substitute of some very costly movies. “The Boy and the Heron” (Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki) was honored as an animated movie.

Presenter Jimmy Kimmel made a number of jokes firstly of this 12 months's awards and emphasised that, within the opinion of many, director Greta Gerwig must also have been nominated for an Oscar. Her movie “Barbie” has been nominated a number of occasions, however not for finest director.

About actress Hülser, who’s nominated for an Oscar for finest actress, he mentioned: “Sandra plays a woman on trial for the murder of her husband in “Anatomy of a Case” and a Nazi in “The Zone of Interest”. Housewife dwelling close to Auschwitz. While these are very troublesome subjects for American moviegoers, in Sandra's native Germany they’re known as rom-coms.”

At this year's Academy Awards, the historical film “Oppenheimer” concerning the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who researched the atomic bomb, acquired probably the most nominations. The movie was nominated in 13 classes. “Poor Things” acquired eleven nominations, the drama “Killers of the Flower Moon” had ten nominations and “Barbie” acquired eight nominations.