"Dylda" and two more Russian paintings fell into the short list of the Oscar Prize

Two Russian films and one cartoon fell into the short list of the prestigious American film award "Oscar". Kantemir Balagov’s film “Dylda” claims to get into the nomination “Best International Feature”, the painting “Watercolor” by Victor Kosakovsky - for the nomination “Best Documentary Film”, and the cartoon “He cannot live without a cosmos“ Konstantin Bronzita is presented in the top ten best animated short films.

The final lists of Oscar nominees will be announced on January 13, 2020, the awarding ceremony will be held on February 9. The producer of "Dylda" Alexander Rodnyansky in his Instagram congratulated the film crew on the short list of the American Film Academy, but noted that the struggle remains serious.

Competition of the Balagov film is the Favorite of the Oscar Race, the South Korean film "Parasites" directed by Bon Jung-Ho, who received a gold palm branch at the Cannes Film Festival. For getting into the nomination, the “pain and glory” of Pedro Almodovara (leading actor Antonio Banderas received a prize for the best male role in Cannes), the Senegal film “Atlantic”, awarded the Grand Prix of the Cannes festival, the French tape, the outcast, marked with the Cannes prize, the jury.

The Estonian film "Pravda and Justice", the Hungarian film "The remaining", the Czech participant of the Venetian contest "Painted Bird", the Macedonian documentary "Country of Honey", who won the festival in Sandens, and the Polish medalist of the Venetian Festival "The Body of Christ", also got into the short list.

Forbes notes that “Dylda” was broken by the best ten against the backdrop of a record number of applications - the last and only time of the number of films in a foreign language was put forward to Oscar in 2017. This year, 94 countries sent their films to Oscar. Nigeria was disqualified as her film is in English.

A source of Vedomosti in the Russian Oscar Committee said that the film “T-34” was competing for the right to go from Russia to Oscar with Dylda. A member of the Russian Oscar Committee, director Fedor Popov, explained that in the end, the success of the Commission was influenced by the success of “Dylda” at the Cannes festival . Recall that the picture of Balagova received a prize for the best directing in the special view program, as well as a prize of the Fipress of the International Film Press Federation. The film was shot without state support and became the only Russian picture that published in a full -fledged cinema show in the United States.

“The film entering the nomination is quite natural.“ Dylda ”is the most noticeable picture of the year, the tape is of high quality, it had a lot of international awards and recognition within the country,” said Kirill Razlogov, president of the Kirill Razlogov guild and film critics, in an interview with TASS. In his opinion, the picture has every chance of an Oscar, but also getting into the nomination - "This is what can be entered into the director’s creative biography."

Madlogov noted that both Balagov and his teachers Alexander Sokurov are well known in the West. The advantages of the picture, according to him, also include "brilliant acting women's work, a very complex system of relationships within the film." Dylda talks about two front -line friends who are trying to start a peaceful life in the post -war Leningrad 1945.