Oscar: Distributed Prizes and Attention to African-American Issues – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

The 91st Oscars of the Hollywood Film Academy, which were presented this Sunday at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, left as a record a list of winners in which no film has "swept" and a recognition of the films and artists who have dealt with the African-American issue.

In addition, the price for "Green Paper: A friendship without borders" best movie was also a hit for Netflix, though as a production and distribution house "Rome" managed to consolidate its position in the market for "quality" films.

Prices for the most relevant categories have been awarded to several films: "The favourite" and "The Vice President: Beyond the Power" They arrived with 10 and 8 nominations respectively, and they took only one statuette at home.

"Rome", who also had 10 nominations, won three awards: Best Director, Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film, all for Alfonso Cuarón.

"A star Is Born", the remake of the 1937 clbadic directed by Bradley Cooper, has also been nominated 8 times and won only the best song award, for the powerful voice of Lady Gaga in "Shallow".

Only "Bohemian Rhapsody: The Story of Freddie Mercury" he almost succeeded in making a suit, having won four of the five possible prizes; everything but the best movie.

The treatment of black problems in the United States is a common element to several award-winning films.

The three awards for "Green Paper", a comedy drama in a "road movie" about the insensitive but tender friendship between a black pianist and an Italian-American "patovica" in the racist states of the south of the 1960s, goes in this direction.

In the same way, one can read the award for Best Supporting Actor for Regina King "If Beale Street spoke", the first Oscar of legendary Spike Lee for the screenplay "The KKKlan infiltrate" and the three awards for "Black Panther" -clothing, production design and soundtrack.

Finally, another point of resonance left by the Oscars is the denial of "Rome" of the Oscar for best film of the year.
The Cuarón Band was the leader in the betting houses and in the predictions of the experts, depending on how it had collected prizes throughout the season and the intense promotional campaign displayed by Netflix.

This may be precisely to limit the giant of streaming and the challenge that this implies for the traditional modes of production, circulation and consumption of cinema, for which the price of the best band of the year was refused.

Has the company become in a few years one of the most important players in the audiovisual market, and their reluctance to respect the time of the windows of the exhibition in the cinemas before putting their films available on the platform is watched with suspicion.

In any case, with the amount of prices collected tonight and in recent months, Netflix is ​​consolidating and remains firm in its strategy; maybe the result will be repeated in 2020, as Martin Scorsese will launch his next big project on the streaming platform.