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Why Brady Corbet, Sean Baker and Coralie Fargeat Were the Only Directors Who Could Make Their Best Picture Nominees
The directors of ‘The Substance,’ ‘Anora’ and ‘The Brutalist’ offer unique perspectives to set apart their films in the Oscar race.
As many responsibilities were undoubtedly shared behind the scenes by the five filmmakers honored with Oscar nominations this year for directing — Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Pérez”), Sean Baker (“ Anora ”), Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”), Coralie Fargeat (“ The Substance ”) and James Mangold (“A Complete Unknown”) — each brings something unique that sets them apart from their competitors. The impact of “Anora” relies upon the efficacy, and appeal, of a frantic, discombobulating narrative in which the film’s namesake sex worker (played by Mikey Madison) finds herself an unwitting tour guide through New York’s Brighton Beach neighborhood to locate Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the overprivileged son of a Russian oligarch with whom she eloped. To accurately capture his main character’s evolving perspective, Corbet transitions from impressionistic snapshots of László Tóth’s (Adrien Brody) escape from Hungary to more straightfoward documentation of his hardscrabble life as a day laborer, finally to an appropriately operatic backdrop for his creativity as it consumes everything in his path, from loved ones to the literal horizon.
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