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The cartoon of the Russian animator Konstantin Bronzita is nominated for Oscar

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Dreams of the heroes of the cartoon about space may not be realized, but the dream of Oscars for Russian animation has a chance to come true

The world lively discusses the 12 nominations of the “surviving”, the drama of Alejandro Gonzalez Injarrit with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and their chances of getting Oscars on February 28. Only in Russia - its own joy: a multiplier from St. Petersburg Konstantin Bronzite received a nomination in the category “Best Short Animation Film” for his twenty -minute work “We cannot live without space”.

Oscar as a premonition

A shocking surprise is the nomination of bronzitis to the most prestigious film award of the world in any way. Firstly, he already fell into the nominees with his painting “Rearing History-Love History”, after which he automatically became an academician of Oscars. Secondly, “we cannot live without space”-perhaps the most successful cartoon of 2015, which gathered dozens of bonuses around the world, including the Grand Prix of two competing animation festivals, in Zagreb and Annesi. However, the news is still pleasant, and the nomination is one hundred percent deserved. The 50-year-old bronze (born, by the way, on the Cosmonautics Day, April 12) is a student of Alexander Tatarsky and one of the most gifted Russian filmmakers: among his works is not only the author’s animation, but also the first successful commercial full meter made in the post-Soviet time, “Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmei”.

"We cannot live without space"
- This is a universal picture, and not specific
Russian, and completely dispensed with dialogs.
Her heroes are cosmonauts-scrapes, one of them
is about to go on a dangerous expedition,
And the second will remain alone and sharpen forever

Here's what is curious: among the most discussed and successful films of the season is the Hollywood Martian, who received two prestigious Golden Globes (the best comedy and the best actor for Matt Damon) and
7 "Oscar" nominations, for some reason, with the exception of directorial for Sir Ridley Scott. In this picture, the entire universe is included in the operation to save the American astronaut, which was stuck on Mars ... Except Russia, in which, obviously, neither producers nor spectators see more space power. Although earlier, from Armageddon to Gravity, the situation was different.

“We cannot live without space” is a kind of compensation. This film about space is definitely no worse than Martian, although its budget is incomparably more modest; In addition, this picture is universal, and not specifically Russian, and completely dispensed with dialogs. Her heroes are cosmonauts-scrapes, one of them is about to go on a dangerous expedition, and the second will remain alone and sharpen forever. The poetry and funny parables of Bronzeit gracefully returns us the status of a country directly related to the cosmos and once cut the road there.

The Mad Max George Miller suddenly turned out to be the second in the number of nominations: ten at once

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The hero of the innovative "puzzle" - the anger of its own person Ukraine in fire

Another unexpected participant in the upcoming “Oscar” race is the documentary Evgeny Athenaevsky, a native of Kazan and Israeli citizen, whose film about the events of the Maidan “Winter on Fire” entered the nomination of full -length non -gas ribbons. This picture was already presented outside the competition in Venice and Toronto, where the prize of the audience sympathies was awarded, and then brought the author the order - the cross of Ivan Mazepa, awarded by decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. The chronicle of dramatic events taken by order of the American Netflix is made extremely simply and clearly, clearly restoring the chronology and giving the right to vote to witnesses. Unfortunately, this picture - quite one -sided, but not in the slightest degree not propaganda - is unlikely to see the Russian viewer. Whether she will receive an Oscar, it is difficult to predict. In any case, she has strong competitors: in particular, the documentary Bayopic about Amy Winehouse and the tragic “look of the silence” of Joshua Oppenheimer.

The alignment among “films in a foreign language” is also interesting, the list of which predictably did not get the “sunny blow” of Nikita Mikhalkov put forward by Russia. The most promising two applicants-defitans look: the French Mustang Denise Gamza Ergyven, whose heroine are Turkish Tineegers suffering from the horrors of Patriarchate, and the “son of Saul” by Hungarian Laszlo Nemesh, a heavy and terrible drama about the Holocaust, seen by the eyes of a member of a probes.

The list of full-length cartoons, where the Japanese melodrama about the ghosts “Memories of Mernie” made at the legendary studio of Illy, and the British plasticine Bralesk-comedy “lamb Sean”, are almost as international. However, the winners are obvious to the outstanding “puzzle” of the Pixar studio, which also received the nomination for the best original script. You can’t argue: it is unlikely that last year there was something more original on the screens.

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Oscar Leonardo DiCaprio in love with the public is more important than the "surviving" prize

Matt Damon (Martian) is a quite real competitor Leonardo DiCaprio in the acting nomination

The film “Winter on Fire”, a native of Kazan, Yevgeny Athenaevsky, who was produced by the American Netflix film about the Ukrainian Maidan “Winter in Fire”

Ordered to survive

But all this, of course, will happen in the backyards of the main show - the battles for the title of the best film of the year, which is claimed by eight paintings. In this battle there are obvious outsiders (for example, the independent dramas of Brooklyn and Room), and there are participants more significant: in particular, the film-investigation of Tom McCarthy “In the Facific in the Focus” of Boston journalists who opened the network of Catholic pedfile priests, and the fundamental-salt “spying bridge” Stephen Spilberg. They have six nominations, a little less than that of the Martian.

Hedliner of the "Oscar" show - "surviving"
Alejandro Gonzalez injarita.
Given that the director of the award for
The best film of 2014 and the Golden Globe,
received already this year, his victory
It seems more likely

But the absolute headliner of the “Oscar” show is the monumental “surviving” Alejandro Gonzalez injarrita. Considering that the director of the 2014 best film was an account (then Berdman leads both the Golden Globe and Oscars) and the Golden Globe for the best drama received this year, his victory seems more than probable. It is unlikely that academicians will recall such dominance of one director for two years in a row. The only real competitor of the “survivor” is “Mad Max: The Road Road”, purely entertaining, albeit highly brilliant, the Australian’s film, George Miller, who received 10 nominations.

However, the whole civilized world is much more worried about the triumph of Injarit or Miller, but finally the real chance of receiving the acting figurine Leonardo DiCaprio. He went to this award for many years. And as we see, he survived. Apparently, he cannot live without an Oscar. And we are without space. To each his own. DiCaprio is necessary for his trophy, the skin is still an unbearable bear. Russia, who is so rarely in the Oscar "lists, has the full right to rejoice already about the current nomination.

 *Photo: Kinopoisk.ru, Laokoon Filmgroup, IMDB.com, Arturas Morozovas/Netflix Ink*