mastermind behind the colorful creation of the. 2020 awards season is well underway and after the golden globes gave us a bit of a barometer last week suspense was high on monday for the academy award nominees and the lists were announced in the early hours l.a. time and suffice it to say hollywood seems to be staying true to itself with a handful of films dominating most of the categories. walking phoenix earned a nomination for best actor with his performance in joker a dark psycho thriller that tells an origin story of the villain of the batman comic books. the film also received 10 other oscar nominations including one for best director and best picture. for yes are you afraid there's a jimmy hoffa the irishman directed by martin scorsese took 10 nominations

including best picture best director and best actor the gangster epic tells the story of a mafia hit man who gets wrapped up in the fate of legendary 1970 s. teamster boss jimmy hoffa. quentin tarantino's latest set in the 1960 s. is also oscar beyond with 10 nominations once upon a time in hollywood stars leonardo dicaprio as a washed up actor and as a stunt double brad pitt. they were nominated for best actor and best supporting actor respectively. in the 2nd also with 10 oscar nom is war epic 917 by sam mendez it's filmed as one continuous shot that follows 2 british infantry men want to take a dangerous mission across the front lines of a battlefield in northern france. we were 16 and joining me in the studio to talk

about this is who else but scott roxboro our film expert welcome scott and of course the joker here is leading the oscar race with 11 nominations this is a comic book sale a very controversial one at that how did it pull this off you know it's really surprising i think just like in couple of years ago the idea that a comic who would even get nominated for an oscar much less lead the pack heard of but i think what todd phillips the director of joker did is really interesting i mean this is a. kind of a comic book movie it sort of is telling a story about a comic book and that's you know playing within this genre which is the most commercially successful genre of the world right now but the same time if you look a bit deeper this is really a dark psychological story about a man of a society sort of on the edge and it's very much expressive of films from the 1970 s. and so the new hollywood period particularly films from martin scorsese like like kind of color or taxi driver exactly and i think what joker did is mention combine these

2 genres in a way that shows you can make sort of films reach a huge audience are very commercially successful but also go very very deep and sort of speak to some of the best of hollywood i think it's good press of that it got so many oscar nominations now of course it's up against some really tough competition does it have a realistic chance i don't know i think it has a chance to make walk if you know it's got a lock on the. best actor oscar that's his to lose otherwise it'll be difficult because it's up it's a lot of big interesting and significant films i mean you've got a winner here and you know those yes once upon a time in hollywood and this is a big film and it's probably the least controversial film ever made so back could play in its favor i think people love the love to give 10000 oscar he's had such an impact on cinema so that's got a good chance and then there's 1917 you know big award epic this is the kind of movie the oscars love it's also completely not controversial nobody would object if it wins the top oscar and then there's the irishman martin scorsese gangster afaik

robert de niro phenomenal film only controversy here is it was paid for by netflix of course is still big destructor and of course the film there's no women and no people of color that could also play oh you've touched on a point there why am i not surprised no women nominated in the best director category once again i mean is hollywood just going back to you know more or less i mean. i wasn't too surprised you know i kind of expected this to happen happen last year all male nominations i was hoping and thinking. maybe the graphic would get a nomination for little women which is a great film it's a literary adaptation she does a couple very interesting things with this with this classic story and gives a slightly interesting feminine feminist twist so i was hoping that she would come out on top but again there is a form i mean i checked this the stats the last 20 years only 3 women have been nominated for best director at the desolate in number and it's systemic really isn't it because after i had the same issue and as far as diversity goes there's

not much going on but i'm going to progress to the next question because. international films are getting much more time in the spotlight and parasites from the korean director. because this is this is for me that a feel good story of the oscars so far out of this movie i thought was great that that it picked up 6 nominations including for best picture baby it's got a chance to win in that category as well. as one of the best directors working working today in this film parasite one of the cannes film festival last year and it's really sort of hitchcockian thriller it tone and genre lit really on a dog that's an amazing movie star so it's sort of a as a social satire about a poor family that sort of infiltrates a rich family to sort of spoil them but maybe the rich families actually exploiting the poor family very interesting complex movie that's also a huge amount of fun korea for me has been the most exciting place for cinema for maybe the last 10 years and it's really great to see that the oscars are finally acknowledging it and who knows maybe there's a chance of the top prize that would be so exciting now of course to finish off it

was a big day for netflix which got over 20 nominations i believe it's been scratching the doors of the oscars for some time is this the year that streaming service can possibly take the big prize it might might be i mean $24.00 nominations i got 2 huge films going up to which a nominee for best picture and marriage story and those 2 look at those 2 films is interesting so they really show the ambition that netflix has is a very different movies i mean the irishman big gangster epic from martin scorsese shows him at his at his peak go past. in the film marriage story completely different it's. a more intimate stale divorce and it. stars sort of handsome adam driver in clear best performances so these films irishmen and marriage choice so how broad netflix can can be but i don't really think they're going to do it this year i think this be another year that they almost get to the oscars maybe with a few of the big prizes but don't take home the top prize a best we will see that on february the 9th full week quite

a short season so watching very closely and speaking to you then of course thanks very much for bringing us all that backstory and context this. and it's time now for our weekly german books in the english translation an austrian novelist. asks the question what is it that makes a life rich is it travelling to far away countries or is it speaking multiple languages. the protagonist has none of that to his credits and lives a solitary life in the alps far removed from any cultural and political fast lanes and yet his quiet existence constitutes a whole life what does it sound like when a person's dreams come crashing down around that. i'm standing on top of one of berlin's highest hills not their own president but a whole life by hope is about to take us to the austrian alps where an avalanche is

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finally as time to meet dumbs of power now that's a mash up of the english forward for dams ole unmarried woman and the german for a married wotton behind bout moniker is norwegian artist mark in head kennedy who is fitting leave renowned for her hand made masks and they're really more like wearable artworks that blur of the categories of fashion or arts and costume design and she says that her materials often lead the way is it tribal are it folklore on a sham mons trackings or a combination of all obese and who is the creative spirit behind the mask arrayed my name is morgan health kennedy i'm in a region artist living in london and i work with masks it all began in

2007 when mog unhealed kennedy aliased the damsel frau moved to london she sewed her own club outfits and soon added the masks she taught herself how to embroiders so and adorn close some of the masks only took her a day to make others she work done for years that's kind of the thought sister not not plan i don't draw i don't design work with a materials dull sort it out for me she const the masks on the shelves her gang and they do seem to take on a life of their own even getting individual names as soon as their completed this one school do the rule it was initially a to me quite baroque so like that name comes from that

mocking to heal kennedy gets inspiration for her masks bright outside her door in london's east and london's any important part of the work it is very inspirational it have people from all over the world and i have material provided over the r.-o. . she often returns from her strolls with something she's picked up somewhere. her studio is like a treasure trove. when she's finished a mask she snaps a photo of herself with it on and posts it on instagram under the moniker damsel frau she has over $100000.00 followers. modern killed kennedy carefully composes her mask photos she never wears the mask or any other occasion she's happy when others get creative with them and musicians artists and

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