For his work in the semi-autobiographical film “Belfast”, Sir Kenneth Branagh is nominated for an Oscar in three categories.
In addition to the Academy Award for Best Director, in the other two films Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, the British actor and director is nominated for the first time.
Kenneth Branagh has now broken an Oscar record by being nominated in seven different categories in his career.
The previous record for nominations in six separate categories was shared by George Clooney and Walt Disney.
Clooney, like Brana, is a well-known actor and director who sometimes writes his own screenplays. Disney’s course is more special, as some of his nominations were as a producer in categories of short animated films that no longer exist.
Kenneth Branagh earned his first nominations for Best Director and Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare’s Henry V (Henry V) in 1989. In 1992 he adapted the play by Russian playwright Chekhov Swan Song (Swan Song). , which nominated him for Best Live Action Short Film. The 1996 film “Hamlet” put him in the race for Best Adapted Screenplay and in 2011 he returned to the hunt for the trophy for the second male role with “My Week with Marilyn”.
With this year, his candidacies amount to eight seven categories. He has never won an Oscar.
“Belfast” is a story of adulthood set against the backdrop of the Protestant-Catholic conflict, the Belfast Riots in Northern Ireland.
Also nominated for Best Picture are “CODA”, “The Power of the Dog”, “Don’t Look Up”, “Drive My Car”, “Dune”, “King Richard”, “Licorice Pizza”, ” Nightmare Alley “and” West Side Story “.
As for the Oscar for Best Director, Brana faces stiff competition, and Jane Campion, the first female director to be nominated twice in the category, is nominated for “The Power of the Dog.”
Steven Spielberg is nominated for the musical “West Side Story”, the Japanese Ryosuke Hamaguchi for “Drive My Car”, Paul Thomas Anderson for the film “Licorice Pizza”.
In the Best Original Screenplay category, Kenneth Branagh will compete with the screenwriters of “Don’t Look Up”, “King Richard”, “Licorice Pizza” and “The Worst Person in the World”.
See all the news
Follow Skai.gr on Google News
and be the first to know all the news
