This is not the first time that a film JA Bayona sneaks into the Oscar nominations (in 2012, Naomi Watts was nominated for the statuette in the best actress category for her performance in ‘The Impossible’), but never before had the Barcelona director’s work been so directly recognized by the Hollywood Academy. The presence of ‘The Snow Society’ among the five finalists in the section of best international filmadded to the icing on the cake that is the candidacy in the discipline of best makeup and hairdressing, constitutes a full-fledged invitation to join the group of those chosen this year by the industry. “Being part of the party makes me very excited,” said Bayona, who confessed he was doubly satisfied for having obtained that accolade with a movie spoken in Spanish.
“It’s really very difficult get the attention of Hollywood with an international film made in a language that is not theirs,” said the Catalan director, whose most recent productions – ‘The Impossible’, ‘A Monster Comes to See Me’, ‘Jurassic World’ and the series ‘The Rings of the power’ – were shot in English. “It’s a very different story when you go with a film in Spanish, because you have to work twice as hard,” he insisted. Bayona highlighted that the Oscar nominations confirm the good star of ‘The Snow Society ‘, a film, he said, that has not stopped giving him joy since it was released, “that is at the center of conversations around the world, that is breaking records on the platform [Netflix] and that people continue going to see the cinema.
“The best in the world”
In the fight for the statuette for best international film, the rivals of ‘The Snow Society’ are the Italian ‘I captain’, by Matteo Garrone; the japanese ‘Perfect days’, by Wim Wenders; the British one (but spoken in German) ‘The area of interest’by Jonathan Glazer, and the German ‘Teacher’s room’, by İlker Çatak. “It is a very complicated category because there are the best films in the world competing and it is a huge merit to have entered,” said Bayona, who stressed that, in any case, so far his film “has defended itself very well and is being liked a lot by the public.” public”. Ultimately, she added, ‘The Snow Society’ “is about how In the moments when we feel abandoned we have to come together and give to others, and that is a message that resonates a lot in the world we live in, especially among young people.
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Bayona also valued the “extraordinary” achievement of having broken “the barrier of international film” and also having entered a section such as makeup and hairdressing, where “it competes with films that are true mastodons within the Hollywood industry.” (the final quintet is completed ‘Oppenheimer’, ‘Master’, ‘Poor Creatures’ and ‘Golda’).
The Barcelona filmmaker wanted to share the milestone of the double nomination with the Spanish Film Academy (“for having put us on the path to get there”), with “the entire film team, including colleagues from Uruguay, Argentina and of Chile”, and with the survivors of the plane crash that the film tells of “and the families of those who are no longer here”.