Birdman triumphs at the Oscars in evening “dead heat” – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The big night of Hollywood has led to considerable a technical draw: both nominated in nine categories, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) , the Mexican Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Grand Budapest Hotel , Wes Anderson, each received four trophies at the 87th edition of the Academy Awards. The advantage still lagged Birdman, who took home the “noble double” for Best Picture and Best Director, while Grand Hotel Budapest was reduced to technical categories.

                     

                          Julianne Moore surprised no one with the Oscar for Best Actress for My Name is Alice , and Patricia Arquette and JK Simmons confirmed favoritism in the actress and actor categories secondary. Already the attribution of the award for Best Actor Eddie Redmayne for his role as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything was a surprise in a race where Michael Keaton broke favorited Birdman ; . English actor of your Oscar belonged to Hawking and his family – “and I am your simple caretaker”

It was a night that mercilessly defeated three of the other strong candidates: The Game of Imitation Morten Tyldum (a single premium in eight nominations), Boyhood – Moments of Life Richard Linklater and American Sniper Clint Eastwood (both converting just one of six nominations). It was a ceremony, long 3:40 a.m., in which the surprises come from everywhere

First surprise:. Conduction ceremony for Neil Patrick Harris surprisingly nervous. The actor How I Met , recently awarded a Tony for the musical play Hedwig and the Angry Inch , seemed to be “out standing” throughout the night; after a promising opening with the participation of Anna Kendrick and Jack Black, sank a series of jokes about desengraçadas. Only two other times the ceremony rose above an elegant but boring slumber: first a parody well esgalhada the “single plan” Birdman where he came on stage only underwear and socks , after the time of submission of the original song award, pairing the Idina Menzel actress with John Travolta (who in 2014 ceremony “chewed” inexplicably the name of Menzel)

Second surprise:. the feeling the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has spared no efforts to “make up” the controversy surrounding the appointments, and especially the absence in the main categories of the acclaimed film Ava du Vernay Selma – The March of Freedom ( appointed only for Best Picture and Best Original Song) . Just about everything is black name “weight” in Hollywood, Eddie Murphy Oprah Winfrey appeared on the Dolby Theatre stage in Los Angeles to deliver prizes – detail that burned the American social networks during the ceremony and only came amplify even more a question that does not seem to “drop” the Oscars since years ago.

implied in the speech of the president of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, during the ceremony will celebrate the less political and more movies. The reference more or less veiled Isaacs of the defense of freedom of expression seemed to refer, without the name directly to the controversies that rocked Hollywood over the last few months: the computer attack on the Sony Studios on the comedy A Crazy Interview , the issue of representation of african-American population in the cinema, and the resumption of the debate on the war in Iraq around American Sniper .

But as usual, the ceremony changed it turns. Singer John Legend, upon receiving the award for Best Original Song for the song he wrote for Selma, Glory (minutes after his interpretation of topic has booted tears several gifts in the audience), made the connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the march led by Martin Luther King from Selma to Birmingham. “Selma is today, because the struggle for justice is today,” he said, citing then the official figures that give the black American population today held in prisons more than the number of black slaves to the time of the Civil War.

(The night that followed for a tribute to the fiftieth anniversary of The Sound of Music with a medley of themes that huge success interpreted musical cinema – surprisingly, it is say -. by Lady Gaga, who called the stage then the original film Maria, Julie Andrews)

The Legend of thanks was not the only one to generate a frisson that the Academy might not expect. Patricia Arquette, upon receiving the award for Best Supporting Actress for Boyhood , cried out for equal status and treatment for women in Hollywood – as was fervently applauded by an enthusiastic Meryl Streep in the audience. The documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras called the journalist Glenn Greenwald stage to accept her Oscar for Best Documentary by Citizenfour , the revelations of Edward Snowden analyst, and warned of the danger that the computer control creates for democracies. And Graham Moore, honored with the award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Game of Imitation , dedicated the award to all those who feel bad on your skin and socially maladjusted, evoking his own recovery attempt suicide to offer the certainty that everything can in fact improve.