Each 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.The FatherPlaywright Florian Zeller’s The Father enjoyed several award-winning runs on the stage before it made its evolution to film, but first-time feature film director Zeller had long been imagining moving his unnerving story of a man sliding into dementia to the big screen.“For years I was dreaming about making that film.
I would say it was a profound desire,” he says. Partly what drove him was the response to the play. “That play has been staged in many countries, and I was surprised and profoundly moved to see that everywhere, the response of the audience was always the
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