On the way to the Oscars: The power of cinema in front of Spielberg’s cameras

Nominated in seven Hollywood Academy Awards divisions (Best Picture, Director, Leading & Supporting Actress, Soundtrack, Original Screenplay and Production Design), the biopic evokes the director’s childhood and youth in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

At each plot twist, the director turns the camera toward the horizon, the one John Ford (David Lynch) reminded him of at the end of the installment and which forms a vision of the future of his alter ego and the line between truth and lie.

Becoming a love letter to cinema and movies, the feature film reveals the power of this aspect to explain Spielberg’s vision of the world and back in time, although in this case fidelity to the facts matters little.

“I don’t think anyone knew in March or April 2020 where art and life would be, even a year later,” Spielberg said during the film’s screening at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada. The pandemic prompted him to undertake this project.

The director said, “I just felt like I was going to leave something behind, so what did I really need to figure out and break up my mom, dad, and sisters?”

Through his audiovisual production, the protagonist of the story in the films discovers an antidote to fear, the possibility of manipulating emotions in search of the truth and reading between the lines/frames what is hidden in plain sight.

For Spielberg, no picture is innocent and that problem is specifically reflected in the film, when Sammy Fabelman uncovers a devastating family secret and explores the power of movies to tell stories and forge his own identity.

The most personal title from the celebrated director, who has Jaws, ET The Extra-Terrestrial, AI, Schindler’s List, Artificial Intelligence, and Catch Me If You Can to his credit, depicts his family environment in which he drank the sap from his mother (Michelle Williams), who understood the value of art. As a necessary way to survive disappointments.

Co-written by the so-called “King Midas of Hollywood” and Tony Kushner, the production is among the 10 best films of 2022 by the National Board of Film Critics and the American Film Institute, as well as a Golden Globe for Best Dramatic. Movie and title.

If he wins the 95th edition of the Academy Awards, scheduled for March 12, Spielberg will extend his reign, scoring a gold statue for his outstanding work as a film director (nine nominations) and two in the Best Picture category (12 nominations).

Similarly, the creator of Rescuing Private Ryan (1998), The Terminal (2004), and the Jurassic Park saga, he has won three BAFTA Awards, and eight Golden Globe Awards, among other accolades in international competitions.

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