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“I am your person” and Hans Zimmer in the Oscar race
The 94th Academy Awards are scheduled for March 27, 2022 in Hollywood. (Archive image) Photo: TANNEN MAURY / epa / dpa
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The Oscars will be awarded at the end of March, and now the German film “Ich bin dein Mensch” and star composer Hans Zimmer have cleared an important hurdle.
The German film “Ich bin dein Mensch” overcame a major hurdle in the Oscar race.
Maria Schrader’s futuristic tragic comedy made it onto the so-called shortlist of a total of 15 candidates, as the Oscar Academy in Beverly Hills, California announced on Tuesday. Entries from 93 countries applied for the Oscar in the “International Feature Film” category for 2022. Composer Hans Zimmer, special effects maker Gerd Nefzer and a graduate of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy also moved a little closer to the Oscar.
“Ich bin dein Mensch” was selected for the Oscar race in mid-September by German Films, the foreign agency of German film. Maren Eggert plays a scientist who is supposed to test a humanoid robot (Dan Stevens) as a partner.
The shortlisted candidates in the “International Feature Film” category include the films “Große Freiheit” (Austria), “Drive my Car” (Japan), “The Hand of God” (Italy), “Compartment No. 6 ”(Finland),“ Flee ”(Denmark) and“ A Hero ”(Iran).
Oscar in Germany for the last time in 2007
There was no German candidate in the previous Oscar race. The film “And tomorrow the whole world” by director Julia von Heinz was eliminated in the preliminary round. In the end, the Danish social satire “Der Rausch” by director Thomas Vinterberg won the Oscar for best “International Feature Film”. Most recently, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck won the Oscar for Germany in 2007 for his directorial debut “The Lives of Others”.
Star composer Hans Zimmer (64) has two chances this time: The native of Frankfurt made it onto a shortlist of with his compositions for the science fiction drama “Dune” and for the James Bond film “No time to die” 15 candidates. His British colleague Jonny Greenwood is also in the running twice with the soundtrack for “The Power of the Dog” and for “Spencer”. Other candidates are Alexandre Desplat (“French Dispatch”), Germaine Franco (“Encanto”) and Alberto Iglesias (“Parallel Mothers”).
1995 Oscar for Hans Zimmer
Zimmer last made it into the Oscar finals in 2018 – he owed his eleventh nomination to the score for Christopher Nolan’s war drama “Dunkirk”. In 1995 Zimmer received the Oscar for “The Lion King”.
Director Denis Villeneuve brought the German special effects artist Gerd Nefzer on board for the visually stunning scenes of “Dune”. After the preselection, the film is now one of ten candidates for a special effects Oscar. Born in Swabia, Nefzer won one of the coveted trophies for “Blade Runner 2049” in 2018.
The Jordanian director Murad Abu Eisheh, a graduate of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, can hope for an Oscar in the “Live Action Short Film” category. His film “Tala’vision” is among 15 shortlisted candidates, with a total of 145 short films to choose from. Eisheh had already been awarded a student Oscar in October. His half-hour film tells of the life of eight-year-old Tala in war-torn Syria and of the importance of a television for the girl.
On February 8th, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards. The award ceremony is scheduled to take place on March 27th in Hollywood.