The experience from one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. The originality relentless of two almost novices whose energy devastates everything (everywhere at the same time). A long-awaited return that has disappointed expectations. The acid, exaggerated and insatiable vision of the Palmas d’Or collector, the calm gaze of a playwright who returns to his infinite islands to immerse himself in solitude, tolerance, pain, incomprehension and the absurd.
Oscar 2023: Best Director Analysis
1 Martin McDonagh – “The Banshees of Inisherin”
At first glance, Martin McDonagh’s direction in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ may not be the most attractive of the category. Does this mean that his appointment is unfair or devoid of any real meaning? Absolutely. The work of the screenwriter and director of the memorable ‘Hiding in Bruges’ and, above all, ‘Three ads in the suburbs’, It is of a precision and intelligence comparable only to its containment and simplicity, virtues all related to the damaged, dark and melancholic heart of the story it is telling and of the characters who inhabit this universe.
Perennially poetic, McDonagh’s direction is pure balance, placing himself at every moment at the exact distance from the faces, dialogues and twists and turns that his extraordinary screenplay poses. There’s no chance it will be made with a much more feasible statuette in the field of original screenplay, but it’s always good to find a talent like McDonagh among the nominees.
Martin McDonagh in eCartelera
2 Steven Spielberg – ‘The Fabelmans’
What to say at this point about Steven Spielberg? Well, he’s still the king. Sure, “The Fabelmans” didn’t perform at the box office as expected, but that’s still a purely commercial detail that has nothing to do with the excellence that surrounds it. one of the most personal, sensitive, delicate and moving films of the career of one of the greatest directors in the history of the seventh art.
Faced with the deeply intimate exercise of recounting one’s childhood and adolescence, forever marked both by cinema and by the separation from father and mother, Spielberg opts for a direction with calm tones, classic forms and strokes of genius, a house brand . if you ask me, the statuette should only fall into his hands for the last shot of a non-Steven Spielberg film: ES Steven Spielberg.
Steven Spielberg of eCartelera
3 Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – ‘Everything at once everywhere’
Taking into account their triumph at the DGA, the Los Daniels, namely Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, start as the favorites to win the Oscar for best director in the next edition of the awards. And the truth is that, beyond the very high level of some of his opponents in the category, it would be a victory situated in the field of the incontestable.
From the opening bars to one of the most beautiful and moving final sections that cinema has given us in the last decade, ‘All at once everywhere’ is a real roller coaster that would not have gone so far, far from it, without the enormous talent, inventiveness and imagination of two directors brimming with inspiration.. An immense work that manages to balance a dazzling castle of ideas, scenes, plots and characters that required an extra dose of precision in order not to sink completely. Mission accomplished. And Oscar practically assured.
4 Ruben Östlund – ‘The Triangle of Sadness’
The surprise of the category. And we could say the same for Best Picture, by the way. His chances of winning are zero, but hey, good old Ruben Östlund managed to become one of the stars of the next edition of the Oscars thanks to ‘The Triangle of Sadness’, a film capable of arousing as many burning passions as visceral hatred . Taking into account that, in all likelihood, this was what the Swedish writer-director was looking for, it is clear that the plan worked a treat. Your address? Irregular like the film it represents, yes, but always elegant and mischievous.
Ruben Östlund of eCartelera
5 Todd Field – ‘Tár’
We had to be patient, a lot, but Todd Field’s return was worth waiting for. And it is that, from a very risky and hypnotic prologue in the same doses, the American actor, screenwriter and director is full of inspiration in ‘Tár’, a solemn film that breathes, moves and beats to the rhythm of an impressive Cate Blanchett and a direction capable of being at its (infinite) height. Particularly brilliant when traversing the terrain of the most characteristic psychological thriller, even playing with small details of terror, Field delivers magnificent work that completely establishes the tone and weight of the story he wants to tell. An exemplary address in every respect.
Todd Field of eCartelera
We are talking, respectively, of Steven Spielberg, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Todd Field, Ruben Östlund and Martin McDonagh, all nominated for the 2023 Oscar for best director. A sextet, the Daniels go in a pack, which they represent a year in which the category could have expanded to tenespecially if we take into account the enormous work of, for example, Damien Chazelle in “Babylon”, Sarah Polley in “They Speak”, James Cameron in “Avatar: The Sense of Water”, Baz Luhrmann in “Elvis” or Edward Berger in “All Quiet on the Front”.
Absences which, rather than absurd anger, should cause absolute happiness at the highest level that has been seen in the last year in the field of management. A field where veteran and novice gazes have admirably combined to weave a landscape full of scenes with an indelible echo, many of them signed by this indisputable group of candidates.
Source: E Cartelera
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