The Long Road To Oscar 2022: The Journey Of Each Best Picture Nominee
deadline.comEach of this year’s Best Picture nominees has survived a journey to cross the finish line, before earning the Academy’s consideration.
Here’s how they came together.BelfastWriter-director Kenneth Branagh began work on Belfast at the beginning of 2020, but the story itself has been growing for 50 years. “The desire to write something about Belfast had been with me ever since I left the place,” says Branagh, “but it was definitely enhanced by the idea of the lockdown.
There was much more introspection at the beginning of this period.”In casting his family, Branagh’s goal was to cast people who understood the culture of Belfast. “I admired Jamie Dornan very much for his work on The Fall,” he says, “he’s from just outside Belfast.
Ciarán Hinds was brought up a half a mile from where I lived, he was about 16 when the Troubles happened. Caitríona Balfe came from a border town called Monaghan, so she really saw the tension between Catholics and Protestants up close.
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