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Film awards season Jane Campion Vs. Spielberg and Branagh The nominations for the 94 th Academy Awards will be announced on 8 th February, while the award ceremony itself will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on 27 th March, and the Oscar frontrunners have already been singled out: The Power of the Dog,

Spilbergova verzija Priče sa zapadne strane okupila je najbolji brodvejski i holivudski kreativni tim Spielberg’s version of West Side Story brought together the best Broadway and Hollywood creative team

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and Jap- anese director Ryusuke Hamagu- chi's Drive My Car, which won the awards of the New York Film Crit- ics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. This rare com- bination has only ever occurred six times previously, and has each time resulted in an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Picture, though this has never before been achieved by a foreign language film. Alongside the aforementioned works, the race to be declared the best film and take the golden statu- ette also includes Paul Thomas An- derson's Licorice Pizza, Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard, Ad- am McKay’s satire Don't Look Up, CODA and The Tragedy of Macbeth. Best director Judging by the number of awards won, one of this category’s most obvious winners is Jane Cam- pion, who was nominated back in 1994 for her directing of The Piano, for which she also won the Acade- my Award for Best Screenplay. On- ly two female directors have won

West Side Story and Belfast T he pandemic isn’t the on- ly thing to have changed the film industry forev- er, and film awards with it. Following numerous criticisms over a lack of diversity among the jury members, but al- so the award winners themselves, the award ceremony for the Gold- en Globes wasn’t broadcast for the first time since 1979, passing instead without the typical presenting of awards with a host and celebrities, and with the winners announced on social media and the official website.

Best picture It is well known that critics’ as- sociations and actual members of the Film Academy don’t necessari- ly have to be in agreement when it comes to awards, but the frontrun- ning nominations for the upcoming Oscars have nonetheless crystal- lised. Apart from Spielberg’s West Side Story and the other winner of the Golden Globe for Best Drama, New Zealand director Jane Cam- pion’s The Power of the Dog, oth- er works that stand out in terms of number of awards won include

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