In the interpretation categories, the forecasts were fulfilled and there were no last-minute surprises. Well, actually, Lily Gladstone had a good chance of becoming the first Native American to win the Best Actress Oscar for the role of that Osage woman victim of a brutal plot involving her husband, a white man who, together with his uncle, intended to keep the wealth of his family, but the members of the Academy preferred to deny the only statuette likely to have achieved that film lesson of the master Scorsese entitled Los asesinos de la luna, which aspired to ten awards and left empty-handed. In her place, a disbelieving and nervous Emma Stone jumped on stage at the Dolby Theater apologizing for the noise and the torn dress to accept her second Oscar – she won her first for La La Land seven years ago years – to the best actress for embodying the indomitable Bella Baxter, with great sexual appetite, in the exuberant Pobres criaturas. A most daring work that consecrates the laughter of the performer of only 35 years.
Before her, at the beginning of the gala, an emotional Da’Vine Joy Randolph could not hold back the tears when she heard her name as the best supporting actress for her job as a cook at a prestigious school that has lost his son in Los que se caden. “I always wanted to be different, I just needed to be myself”, said the African-American woman who was busy at the tables in a powerful speech. It was his first nomination and he had no rival in the awards season.
Another one who emerged victorious with the first nomination was Cillian Murphy, the chameleon actor with the most penetrating blue eyes of the current cinematographic landscape, who also started as a favorite in all directions to step into the shoes of the repentant father of the atomic bomb to Oppenheimer. “I’m a proud Irishman”, said the protagonist of Peaky Blinders with the trophy in hand, which he dedicated to “all those who fight for peace in the world”. Introverted and allergic to fame and scandals, Murphy is the antithesis of his co-star Robert Downey Jr., protagonist of a murky past marked by drugs and prison. After two previous nominations – for Chaplin and Tropic Thunder – the popular Tony Stark/Iron Man of the Marvel universe started the applause and thanked the supporting actor Oscar for his Lewis Strauss of Oppenheimer from “my terrible childhood” and at the Academy to his lawyer for 40 years, Tom Hansen. “Half of it was spent trying to get me insurance and getting me out of jail. Thank you, brother.” A redemption of these that are so loved (and rewarded) in Hollywood.
