Oscars 2021: Three French people rewarded at the 93rd edition – 20 minutes
They could not receive their Oscar in person in Los Angeles, due to the pandemic. The French nominees, in competition to win a prestigious statuette, were gathered at Canal + for a duplex with Union Station in Los Angeles, where the 93rd Oscars ceremony was exceptionally held this Sunday. Florian Zeller crowned for the best adaptation, Nicolas Becker for the sound or the producer Alice Doyard for a documentary, return on the coronation of the French.
Florian Zeller’s screenplay
Florian Zeller won the award for best adapted screenplay for his film The Father, based on his play Le Père. “We started the evening with the Oscar for best screenplay and we ended it with the Oscar for best actor for Anthony Hopkins,” said Florian Zeller in a telephone interview with AFP shortly after his victory.
Due to the pandemic, no release date has yet been announced in France for The Father, which has been in theaters since the end of February in the United States, where many cinemas have reopened in recent weeks.
The sound of Nicolas Becker
In the technical categories, the French Nicolas Becker is part of the group awarded for the sound of the film Sound of Metal. An essential element of a film, sound has a particular importance in this feature film which evokes the story of a rock drummer who loses his hearing.
Several members of the film crew admired Nicolas Becker as a sort of mad scientist, capable of engaging, before and during filming, in the most improbable experiments and soundings to achieve the desired result.
The documentary “Colette”
Finally, the French producer Alice Doyard was crowned Sunday in the documentary category, short format, for Colette, a film directed by the American Anthony Giacchino about a former nonagenarian resistance fighter who goes, for the first time, to the site of the former concentration camp of Nordhausen, in Germany, to honor the memory of her brother, who died there -low.
It is a trip of memory but also the birth of a relationship between Colette Marin-Catherine, overflowing with vitality at the age of 90, and a young history buff, Lucie Fouble, 17, who will accompany her on her journey. .
“This award and this film,” said Alice Doyard of receiving her award, “is a tribute to women of all ages, all over the world, who join hands and fight for justice. Long live Colette and long live France! “