Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, the contender for 96th Academy Awards in Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Actress, is part legal thriller, part portrait of a marriage, part character study, and wholly a meditation on the elusive nature of truth.
The popularity of historical dramas in film and on television has caused much controversy, as historians take issue with fictional scripts being passed off as fact, and treated as such by viewers lacking the specialist education to allow them to tell the difference. The Crown, much of which was pure invention, is an obvious example. But one apparently more insidious arrives in our cinemas this week. The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer, is very loosely based on the 2014 novel of the
A member of the Academy has spoken out about the 'snubs' for Barbie's Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig after the Oscars caused controversy over Best Actress and Best Director nominations