On January 24, the American Film Academy announced the nominations for the Oscar 2023, and in the list of contenders this year only one Russian-British project was shot in Yakutia – the short film Exit by Maxim and Evgenia Arbugaev. On this occasion, we decided to recall all local and Russian directors who were nominated for an Oscar.
Ivan Pyryev (The Brothers Karamazov)
Pyriev made a three-part film shortly before his death. “The Brothers Karamazov” entered the Oscar race after Sergei Bondarchuk’s “War and Peace”, which received a statuette in 1968, but remained with only a nomination. And in 1970, Oscar went to the Algerian political detective Zeta.
Igor Talankin (Tchaikovsky)
The biographical film story tells about the life of the famous composer through Tchaikovsky’s correspondence with the Russian philanthropist Nadezhda von Meck. Unfortunately, the film did not receive a statuette, the award was given to the drama “Garden of Finzi Contini” by Italian Vittorio de Sica.
Stanislav Rostotsky (“The Dawns Are Quiet Here…” and “White Bumble Black Ear”)
The military drama based on Boris Vasiliev’s story of the same name was nominated for the award, but the Oscar was won by Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Rostotsky’s second film, White Bim Black Ear, based on Gavriil Troepolsky’s story of the same name, about a white setter with black ears, was also shortlisted and lost to Bertrand’s French melodrama Get Your Handkerchiefs. Blier in 1979.
Julius Raizman (“Private Life”)
The psychological drama has become one of Reisman’s most famous works. At the Venice Film Festival, the film received a special award – “For Artistic and Professional Collaboration”, but the Oscar did not go to the film, giving the victory to the Spanish drama “Start Over” by José Luis Garsi. But after the loss, Reizman was awarded the USSR State Prize.
Pyotr Todorovsky (“Military field novel”)
The melodrama “Military Field Romance”, starring Natalya Andreichenko, Inna Churikova and Nikolai Burlyaev, took part in the main competition of the Berlin Film Festival, where Churikova was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress. The film failed to win an Oscar in 1985, losing to the French chess drama Elephant’s Diagonal.
Source: People Talk
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