A look at Oscar best picture nominee 'Tar'

Record ID: 1713832

  • Title: A look at Oscar best picture nominee 'Tar'
  • Date: 3rd March 2023
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (FEBRUARY 23, 2023) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** CATE BLANCHETT, TODD FIELD, AND NINA HOSS POSING FOR PHOTOS AT THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE OF "TAR" BLANCHETT POSING AND WALKING AWAY FIELD WITH BLANCHETT HOSS POSING FIELD SPEAKING TO THE REPORTER ABOUT THE FILM BEING ABOUT THE CORRUPTING FORCE THAT IS POWER BLANCHETT AND HOSS SPEAKING TO EACH OTHER, BEFORE BEING JOINED BY SOPHIE KAUER PHOTOGRAPHERS VARIOUS OF FILM TEAM POSING FOR PHOTOS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 26, 2023) (REUTERS) OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE NOMINEE, CATE BLANCHETT POSING FOR PHOTOS AT THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD (SAG) AWARDS
  • Embargoed: 17th March 2023 15:40
  • Keywords: 95th Academy Awards Cate Blanchett Nina Hoss Noémie Merlant Oscars Sophie Kauer Tar Todd Field best picture Oscar nominee
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  • Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film
  • Reuters ID: LVA00D330127022023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Psychological drama "TÁR", about a music conductor whose career comes tumbling down due to an abuse scandal, is a contender for best picture at the 95th Academy Awards. The film has received six Oscar nominations overall.
    Written and directed by Todd Field, the film tells the story of Lydia Tar, played by Cate Blanchett, a hardnosed, gifted, and gay conductor of a major German orchestra, whose seemingly unstoppable career hits the hurricane of an abuse scandal that is never fully explained.
    "I hope that people look at the power and see... sort of the give and take of what it...nobody's up there by themselves," Field told Reuters. "There's always a sense of complicity. You know, I think in a way we're all complicit."
    The movie delves into the world of classical music and highlights a poisonous mix of sex, power, and exploitation.
    "I think it's a film that defies description. Of course, at the centre there's a kind of an unravelling or a self-combusting of someone in a position of power... a reckoning of sorts," Blanchett said.
    “But there's also a ghost story in there, a haunting. And it's about an examination in a lot of ways about systemic power and how corrupting it is no matter what your gender."
    Blanchett, who is also an executive producer of the movie, has received a nomination for best actress at the Academy Awards and won in the same category at the BAFTAs and Critics’ Choice Awards.
    "It was so fluid. I'd go up to him and I'd say, 'now in the big print here, it says that I do that'. He goes 'no, no, no, no, don't do that. I've had this idea. It's this crazy idea...' and so all of a sudden, we'd start doing something that wasn't even on the page. And so that was really alive,” Blanchett said to Reuters about making the film with Field.
    “People talk about improvising, but we were really, I felt like we were standing on the edge of a cliff every day saying, 'this may not work, let's give this a try', it was really, really exciting to make. And I hope that some of that excitement comes across in the experience of watching the film.
    The film’s nominations include best picture, best director, best original screenplay, best original score, and best cinematography.
    Winners will be revealed on March 12 in Los Angeles.
    (Production: Lisa Giles-Keddie, Natasha Mulenga)
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