The tremendous script of Anatomy of a Fall, full of twists, intrigue, and showing the thousand faces of our lives and our relationships based on the suspicious death of the protagonist’s husband, has won the Oscar for best original screenplay in the Oscar ceremony. Director Justine Triet, screenwriter of the film along with her partner Arthur Harari, have collected the award after having already won the Golden Globe in the same category and are up for four other statuettes at the Oscars, including best film.
“Thank you for this award, it will help me with my mid-life crisis,” a very emotional Triet (Fécamp, France, 1978) joked on stage. She has also recalled how, contrasting with the night of glamor that is the Oscars, they drafted the film’s script “during the pandemic with two children at home and immersed in diapers.” And she thanked the cast led by the powerful Sandra Hüller for “what you have done, you have elevated the script and you are the best for a director and a screenwriter.”
Triet and Harari have confirmed that they were the big favorites, beating David Hemingson, candidate for Those Who Remain, Alexander Payne’s film, and Bradley Cooper
