Oscars: the five big stakes of the ceremony

The Oscars ceremony will be hosted this year by American comedian Jimmy Kimmel

Oscars: the five big stakes of the ceremony

The Oscars ceremony will be hosted this year by American comedian Jimmy Kimmel. The first time the latter took to the Oscars stage, in 2017, the ceremony was marked by the imbroglio that led to the Best Picture Oscar being mistakenly awarded to La La Land instead of Moonlight. During the 95th ceremony, which will take place on Sunday March 12, the nominations still suggest great emotions. Here are the five points that should be particularly monitored.

Each year, the nominees for the Oscar for best song provide the show. Pop diva Rihanna will therefore reappear on stage, just weeks after her Super Bowl performance, where she revealed that she was pregnant. The artist, who hadn't performed live in years, will perform the song "Lift Me Up" from the superhero movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

But she could be upstaged by "Naatu Naatu", the heady anthem of the Indian phenomenon "RRR". Like this action film, the title is supercharged and made the public dance in some Hollywood cinemas. Guaranteed show. Viewers will however be deprived of Lady Gaga. Nominated for the song "Hold My Hand", which punctuates the second installment of Top Gun, she declined the invitation because she is "in the process of shooting a film", according to the production of the Oscars.

The best actress category will probably be one of the most scrutinized, with a tight duel between Michelle Yeoh, an exhausted mother catapulted into a superheroine in Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Cate Blanchett, a conductor as brilliant as she is ruthless. in Tar. The Malaysian ex-James Bond girl could become the first actress of Asian origin to win the Oscar. For her part, the Australian would enter a very closed club if she received the supreme award for the third time: only seven men and women have succeeded so far.

On the men's side, the presentation of the major Oscar will have to innovate. Banned from ceremony for 10 years after attacking comedian Chris Rock last year, Will Smith will not be able to present the award to his successor.

The Oscars would also like to forget this famous slap that tarnished their history. The episode should generate some inevitable banter, but Oscars executive producer Molly McNearney clearly wants closure. “We will recognize the event … and move on,” she said this week.

Chris Rock did not ask permission to let go of his shots. In his show aired a week before the ceremony, he explained that he sided with the slave master who beats Will Smith's character in his latest film, Emancipation.

Her portrayal of the legendary Tina Turner in a biopic 30 years ago earned her a nomination, but no statuette. Is it ultimately a comic book character that will get Angela Bassett into the Oscar pantheon? If Queen Ramonda from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever leads her to Best Supporting Actress, the 64-year-old actress will become Hollywood's first Oscar-winning star for a role in the Marvel Universe.

Tough competition includes Jamie Lee Curtis, a hilarious embittered tax auditor in Everything Everywhere, and Kerry Condon, a moving literature lover on a lost island in The Banshees of Inisherin.

Are movies always better in their original version? If so, then the German adaptation of In the West, Nothing New is on the way to glory. In 1930, the American version of the pacifist novel by the German Erich Maria Remarque, on the horror of the First World War, won the Oscar for best film. Almost a century later, this new adaptation in the language of Goethe could allow Netflix to win the most prestigious of statuettes for the first time.

Acclaimed at the Bafta (the British film awards), the film seems to be the only one that can stem the tidal wave Everything Everywhere All at Once.