Three weeks from the Oscars, ‘All Quiet Front’ won the British Film Awards (BAFTA) on Sunday with seven awards, including Best Film and Best Foreign Language Film (category in which he beat ‘Argentina 1985’). The great winner of the night is a new film adaptation of the novel of the same name Erich-Maria Remarque (1895-1970), a classic of antiwar literature, published in 1928. Its director, the German Edward Berger, recounts the horrors in the trenches of the First World War, the slaughterhouse to which a generation of young people barely out of adolescence was led, the absurdity of a senseless offensive. “It is the story of a young man poisoned by nationalist propaganda, who went to war thinking it was an adventure. War is not an adventure at all & rdquor ;, Berger declared. The best actor trophy went to the American Austin Butler for ‘Elvis’, the ‘biopic’ of the king of rock, directed by Baz Luhrmann. The prognosis also came true cate blanchett, best actress for ‘TAR’, the film, written and directed by Todd Field, in which she plays an arrogant, talented and abusive conductor.
Tribute to Elizabeth II
At the ceremony, presided over by the Princes of Wales, William and Kate, and held for the first time at the Royal Festival Hall of the Southbank Center in London, he surrendered “a special tribute & rdquor; To the queen Isabel II, passed away in September. The tribute was paid by the actress, Helen Mirren before a visibly moved prince. “The cinema & rdquor ;, Mirren stated, “It achieves at its best what Her Majesty effortlessly did: unite us all and unite us through a story. Your Majesty, you were the star of our nation & rdquor;. A video was also projected in which Elizabeth II appeared greeting renowned actresses and actors such as Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Frank Sinatra and Daniel Craig, with which she starred in a memorable advertisement prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The sovereign had received an honorary BAFTA in 2023 in recognition of decades of support for film and television in the United Kingdom. Mirren, who at 77 played the sovereign in the film ‘The Queen’ for which she won an Oscar and a BAFTA and later returned to reprise the royal role in a play ‘The audience’ on Broadway. The actress was rewarded in 2003 for her services to dramatic art with the title of ‘Dame’, the female equivalent of Knight of the Order of the British Empire. Eight years later, she would personally greet the Queen at a reception at Buckingham Palace.
Prince William has been the president of the Academy of Film and Television since 2010. The heir and his wife were all glamourous. Kate wore a white dress alexander mcqueen It was a bare shoulder and must have been worth a fortune, but he made up the budget with some 20 euro earrings from Zara.
‘Souls in pain of Inisheirn’, the other winner,
The actor Richard E. Grant and Alison Hammond were in charge of the presentation of the gala where the big stars shone, such as, Catherine Zeta–Jones, Julianne Moore, Jamie Lee Curtis, Florence Pugh, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh, Martin Freeman, Emma Thompson, Ana de Armas, Lily James, Eddie Redmayne, Ariana DeBose, and Colin Farrell.
‘The Banshee of Inisheirn’, of Martin McDonald, a black comedy set on a remote island in Ireland was the other big winner. It won awards for Best Supporting Actress (Kerry Condon), Best Supporting Actor (Barry Keoghan) and Best Original Screenplay and Best British Film. The story focuses on the relationship between two friends, which one of them breaks off unilaterally, while the other insists on continuing to maintain
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