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The Oscars have flown by
Mikhalkov, Bodrov and Petrov remained nominees
The 80th anniversary ceremony of the most famous cinematic award in the world, the Oscar, took place on Sunday and brought complete disappointment to Russian fans . However, the “Best Foreign Film” nomination, where Russia could count on winning, is neither the main nor even secondary for the Oscars.The Oscar is the American Film Academy Award, and the degree of interest of its six thousand members in the culture of other countries is much lower than that of other countries in Hollywood cinema. Therefore, no matter how you twist it, no matter how you create quotas, no matter how you limit the showing of American films (they do in China), Hollywood still makes the box office in the world. Therefore, it is more important for everyone what academicians decide in the main categories, and few people care how they distribute the awards among foreigners.
But for the Russian media, the main news was the non-awarding of the prize to Russian films, to which, in addition to the very full-length “12” by Nikita Mikhalkov and the short animation “My Love” by Alexander Petrov, they persistently included “Mongol” by Sergei Bodrov, nominated from Kazakhstan. The question of whether Mikhalkov would receive a second Oscar worried his compatriots so much, as if something really depended on it, except perhaps the reputation of Mikhalkov himself. Now Mikhalkov, Bodrov and Petrov can be proud of the very presence of the nomination and report this on the posters of their films. Nothing else happened.
The Oscar-winning Austrian film “The Counterfeiters” was in our theaters in August. We didn't notice him. So the Americans will not notice either “12”, if the film is shown in their cinemas, or “Mongol”, which will definitely be shown. The Austrian film about how the Nazis gathered Jews who specialized in counterfeiting banknotes in one camp and, on pain of death, forced them to print counterfeit banknotes - a really good movie, modernly shot, based on documentary material. However, the film was not successful at the box office in the United States either.