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Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported third-quarter sales and operating profit slightly above its own expectations, but its chip business posted a sharply lower profit from the previous quarter. The semiconductor unit reported third-quarter operating profit of 3.86 trillion won (about $2.8 billion), down 40% from the previous quarter. While its memory chip unit benefited by strong demand for its artificial intelligence and conventional server products, Samsung said "inventory adjustments negatively impacted mobile demand." While artificial intelligence drove demand for advanced nodes from its foundry unit, Samsung said mobile and PC demand underperformed. Here are Samsung's results compared with the guidance it issued earlier this month:Revenue : 79.1 trillion won vs. 79 trillion: 79.1 trillion won vs. 79 trillion Operating profit: 9.18 trillion vs. 9.1 trillion wonThose guidance figures were markedly lower than the LSEG estimate for 11.456 trillion won in operating profit.

Persons: Jun Young Organizations: Samsung Electronics, Samsung Locations: China

☆ The ‘New Chinese style’ trend isn’t exactly new, but it’s proving lucrative
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

On Chinese social media platforms Weibo and Xiaohongshu, searches for “new Chinese style” and “new Chinese style outfits” hashtags exceeded 100 million in early April, according to state news agency Xinhua. “There is no set rule in the ‘new Chinese style’ (trend) that you must follow, so it is more inclusive. Riding the ‘new’ Chinese style waveFashion designers like Samuel Gui Yang, whose collections have long taken inspiration from Chinese heritage, are seeing more interest from mainland China turn to their brands due to the “new Chinese style” trend. Designer Huang Weizhe, who goes by Azhe online, often posts ideas about how to embrace the "new Chinese style" trend. But some of the “new Chinese style” products are “shoddily made” she said, though she thinks that their designs will improve with time.

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☆ Anya Taylor-Joy says she and Charlize Theron are ‘due a very long dinner’ to swap ‘Furiosa’ ‘war stories’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Elizabeth Wagmeister | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

We met at the Oscars, and she’s just as lovely and gracious and cool as you could imagine,” Taylor-Joy says of Theron. “We are due a very long dinner, just to swap war stories. Charlize Theron in "Mad Max: Fury Road." “Just as we wrote the story for Furiosa, we’ve written a story for Max in the year before we meet him in ‘Fury Road,’” Miller teased. “So, I know what happens to him, and I’ve certainly speculated about what happens after ‘Fury Road.’”

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☆ Oklahoma Was a Legal Marijuana Utopia. Then Came the Mass Murder
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Matt Stroud | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +32 min

Fourteen months after the murders, the garage of the abandoned marijuana farm on prairie tableland northwest of Oklahoma City sits frozen and dark. Broadway Avenue in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, about 30 miles south of where Wu Chen, 47, executed four people at a marijuana farm. When Oklahoma legalized medical marijuana, the only real requirement was that Oklahoma residents had to be involved in marijuana growing and selling. But Oklahoma required 75% of any marijuana business to be owned by an Oklahoma resident. Deputies from the Kingfisher County Sheriff's Office were the first to arrive at the scene of a quadruple homicide at an abandoned marijuana farm.

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In it, Wang films Yi and Chang going about their daily lives with bits of playfulness mixed in. “But now that we made this movie and it’s going to the Oscars, we do kind of feel like movie stars. “That’s kind of why we made this movie,” Wang says. “We’re going to the Oscars and I’m going with my grandmas,” Wang says, smiling. Says Wang: “They’re offer only.”___Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP___For more on this year’s Oscars, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards

Persons: Sean Wang’s, Yi Yan Fuei, Chang Li Hua, Wang, Yi, Chang, Sean, “ Wài, Nǎi, ”, Wài, ” Chang, Zoom, Oscar, wasn’t Bradley Cooper's, Emma Stone’s, Sam Davis, that’d, ” Yi, ” Wang, “ It’s, they’ve, “, Miles, voicemails, “ We’re, Will Ang Lee, Says Wang, Jake Coyle Organizations: Bay Area, Academy, Disney, SXSW, Sundance Film, Sundance, U.S, Focus Locations: Bay, Los Angeles, Taiwan, Taiwanese, New York

☆ It's awards season, and that means only one thing — spotting celebrities noshing on In-N-Out burgers
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewIt's the red carpet season in Hollywood, and that means only one thing – spotting starving celebrities feasting on In-N-Out once the awards ceremony is over. Related stories"We're often at Oscar parties, on movie sets – you name it," In-N-Out's billionaire owner Lynsi Snyder wrote in her new book , "The Ins-N-Outs of In-N-Out Burger." During the Academy Awards, Vanity Fair after-party attendees don't have to jump in a car to get their In-N-Out fix. Advertisement"I'm pleased I provided America with a little diversion, my need for an In-N-Out burger. If he should end up attending the Academy Awards this year, Vanity Fair will have the In-N-Out truck at its after-party – all night long.

Persons: —, Paul Giamatti, Giamatti, PAUL GIAMATTI, bmhbLhy3DB — Michael Warburton, Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts, Ang Lee, Olivia Wilde, Jason Sudeikis, Rita Wilson, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Dan Levy, It's, Lynsi Snyder, Roberts, Sudeikis, I'm, Bob Hope, Paris Hilton, Thomas Keller, Tom Hanks, Anthony Bourdain Organizations: Service, Business, Golden Globe, Globes, Westwood, Hollywood, Paris Locations: Hollywood, California, L.A, @MichaelWarbur17, Instagram, America, Napa

☆ HSBC to launch storage services for tokenized securities as more big banks warm to blockchain
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

HSBC on Wednesday announced it will offer custody services for tokenized securities, making the British bank the latest major institution to embrace digital assets. HSBC is using technology from Swiss crypto custody firm Metaco, which was recently acquired by blockchain startup Ripple, to store bonds and other securities. HSBC is the latest institution to embrace digital asset custody, after U.S. banking giant BNY Mellon announced a similar move in 2021. Tokenized securities are effectively regulated assets, like bonds and equities, in the form of tokens issued on a blockchain. It marks another step from HSBC toward embracing digital assets.

Persons: BNY Mellon, bitcoin, Banks, Zhu Kuang Lee, Adrien Treccani Organizations: HSBC, Wednesday, HSBC Orion, BNY, CNBC, Hong Locations: Europe, British, Swiss, Hong Kong

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - HSBC (HSBA.L) plans to launch in 2024 a custody service for storing blockchain-based assets excluding cryptocurrency, the bank said on Wednesday. The service, which is a partnership with Swiss digital asset firm Metaco, will allow institutional clients to store blockchain-based tokens representing traditional financial assets, as opposed to crypto or stablecoins, HSBC said. The bank last year launched a digital asset platform, HSBC Orion, which allows financial institutions to issue blockchain-based versions of financial assets, also known as tokenised securities. HSBC did not give a figure for the size of the market for blockchain-based assets excluding cryptocurrencies. In 2019, HSBC announced a platform called Digital Vault, which allows investors to access digital records of securities bought on private markets.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Zhu Kuang Lee, Banks, Elizabeth Howcroft, Sinead Cruise, Mark Potter Organizations: HSBC Bank, REUTERS, HSBC, cryptocurrency, Swiss, HSBC Orion, Blockchain, blockchain, Thomson Locations: London

Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have given audiences thrilling and sometimes terrifying front-row seats to incredible feats of human ambition in their documentary work. But there would be at least one big difference in bringing “Nyad” to life: actors. Political Cartoons View All 1233 ImagesIn fiction, she found creative collaborators in their decorated core cast: Annette Bening, who plays Nyad, Jodie Foster as her friend and coach Bonnie Stoll, and Rhys Ifans as the ship's navigator. Vasarhelyi wasn’t without any experience working with actors, either, and in fact learned from the best. With their other films, the filmmakers had loved watching their subjects get to see audiences respond to them and their work.

Persons: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Alex Honnold’s, El Capitan, they’d, Diana Nyad, “, ”, Nyad, ” Vasarhelyi, Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Bonnie Stoll, Rhys Ifans, Chin, Vasarhelyi, Nyad ”, Mike Nichols, Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, Tom Stoppard, Julia Cox, ” Chin, Foster, “ There's, Bening, Annette, Diana, Oscar, Claudio Miranda, Ang, Pi ”, Miranda, it’d, you’re, We’re Organizations: Key West, Netflix, Associated Press, Formula Locations: Northern Thailand, The, Cuba, Key, Covent Gardens

☆ Divided again, South Korea beat North Korea in Asian Games basketball
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Ian Ransom | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Ro captained North Korea and guard Kim started on the bench, while South Korea had forward Kang Lee-seul, guard Park Ji-hyun and centre Park Ji-su among the 2018 alumni. With South Korea and North Korea still technically at war, there has been diplomatic tension at the Games. North Korean athletes refused to join South Korean rivals for a group photo of medal winners at the shooting competition. North Korea had a cheer-squad numbering a few dozen people high up in the grandstand of the half-full stadium. A North Korea team official sitting beside Jong, who was an assistant coach of the unified team in 2018, said the question was not relevant.

Persons: Ann Wang, basketballers, Lee, Ro Suk, Yong, Kim Hye, Jang, Ro, Kim, Kang Lee, Ji, Jung Sun, Jung, Jong, Ian Ransom, Christian Radnedge Organizations: Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium, North, REUTERS, Rights, Asian, South, China's, Group, Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre, Games, Unified Korean, Jakarta Asian Games, Olympic, North Korea, North Korean, Democratic, Thomson Locations: Hangzhou, China, Rights HANGZHOU, Jakarta, South, North Korea, South Korea, South Korean, Korea, Korean, Pyeongchang, DPRK, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Korea's, North Korean

☆ Global regulators seek to crack down on decentralised finance
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Huw Jones | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Global securities regulators set out on Thursday their first blueprint to make participants in "decentralised finance" (DeFi)accountable for their actions and safeguard market stability. Such events have seen DeFi shrink from about $180 billion in late 2021 to about $40 billion currently, and the sector is also being used for moneylaundering, IOSCO said. Stakeholders in DeFi and their roles, and the organizational, technological, and communication mechanisms they use, tend to mimic those in traditional finance. Regulators have little standardised data on DeFI, a situation made worse by market participants using multiple pseudonymous addresses to obfuscate their activities, IOSCO said. Regulators should use existing laws or introduce new ones where needed to get a full picture of DeFI, including the identities of people and companies involved, IOSCO said.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, IOSCO, Tuang Lee Lim, Lim, Huw Jones, Frances Kerry Organizations: REUTERS, Terra, Regulators, DeFi, Thomson Locations: DeFi, IOSCO, United States

☆ Armani stages star-studded fashion spectacle in Venice
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( Hanna Rantala | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] The 80th Venice Film Festival - Armani fashion show "One Night Only" - Venice, Italy, September 2, 2023 - Models present creations by designer Giorgio Armani as a part of a special fashion show to celebrate cinema. REUTERS/Yara Nardi Acquire Licensing RightsVENICE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani brought sparkle and stars to the canal city on Saturday with a "One Night Only" fashion show coinciding with the 80th Venice Film Festival. The Venice Film Festival has lacked its usual star power this year with many Hollywood A-listers forced to shun the event because of the actors' strike. However, Armani, one of Italy’s greatest postwar designers, had no problem filling the city's old armoury with glitz and glamour. Armani’s "One Night Only" fashion spectacles have previously been held in cities including Tokyo, New York, London and Dubai.

Persons: Giorgio Armani, Yara, Armani, Jessica Chastain, Sophia Loren, Sydney Sweeney, Rege, Jean Page, Ang Lee, Ava DuVernay, Hanna Rantala, Diane Craft Organizations: harlequin, Hollywood, Thomson Locations: Venice, Italy, Tokyo , New York, London, Dubai

☆ Emotional Tony Leung wins lifetime award at Venice
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] The 80th Venice Film Festival - Award Ceremony for Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement - Venice, Italy September 2, 2023. Actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai reacts as he receives the Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane Acquire Licensing RightsVENICE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai received a Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, brushing away his tears as he was given a prolonged standing ovation. He also appeared in a trio of movies that won the top Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival -- "A City of Sadness" (1989), "Cyclo" (1995) and "Lust, Caution" (2007), directed by Ang Lee, who handed him his award on Saturday. In another major challenge, Leung said he was about to make his first European film, "Silent Friend", directed by Hungary's Ildikó Enyedi.

Persons: Tony Leung Chiu, Wai, Guglielmo Mangiapane, Leung, Wong Kar, Ang Lee, Andy Lau, Lau, Hungary's Ildikó, I'm, Hanna Rantala, Crispian Balmer, Ros Russell Organizations: Reuters, Golden, Thomson Locations: Venice, Italy, Hong Kong

☆ CoCo Lee: Funeral held for singer and actress in Hong Kong
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Hong Kong CNN —Family and fans bade farewell to singer and actress CoCo Lee at her funeral in Hong Kong on Monday, celebrating a decades-long career that included dozens of successful albums, movies and television shows across the globe. The hearse carrying the casket of singer and songwriter CoCo Lee departs from a funeral home in Hong Kong. Tyrone Siu/Reuters‘Always sunny’Born in Hong Kong and raised in the United States, Lee launched her music career in her birthplace after winning a singing contest. Marvis Lu, 35, was among many fans from mainland China who traveled to Hong Kong for the memorial. Fans leave the funeral of singer and songwriter CoCo Lee, in Hong Kong.

Persons: CoCo Lee, Nancy, “, ’ ” Nancy Lee, Lee, Tyrone Siu, Fa Mulan, Mulan ”, Ang Lee, David Tao, Wang Leehom, Vanness Wu, Jin, MC Jin, “ Singer, ”, Marvis Lu, “ CoCo, Catherine Yang, “ CoCo Lee, Jonathan Serbin Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Reuters, Getty, Weibo, Warner Music Asia Locations: Hong Kong, United States, Asia, Taiwan, Shanghai, China

☆ Almodovar's gay Western draws Cannes crowd - even without Pedro Pascal
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] The 76th Cannes Film Festival - Screening of the film "Kaibutsu" (Monster) in competition - Red Carpet Arrivals – Cannes, France, May 17, 2023. Director Pedro Almodovar and cast members Ethan... Read moreCANNES, May 17 (Reuters) - Throngs of people eager to watch Pedro Almodovar's "Strange Way of Life," a 31-minute Western film starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as lovers, at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday afternoon were turned away after waiting more than an hour in the rain. "There is some very robust and old-fashioned storytelling here and 'Strange Way of Life' feels quite old-fashioned in its way," wrote The Guardian newspaper, which gave it four out of five stars. The film will be released later this year and is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, according to the trade paper Variety. Reporting by Miranda Murray; editing by Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Pedro Almodóvar’s Answer to ‘Brokeback Mountain’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Follow our live updates from the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival. “How do you want me to look at you?” replies the gunslinger, flirting. It wouldn’t be a western without a fraught standoff, but when Pedro Almodóvar is behind the camera, the glances are even more loaded than the pistols. In “Strange Way of Life,” a new short film that will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal star as a lawman and a cowboy who reunite 25 years after having a passionate affair. But will their old magic be rekindled, or are both men concealing ulterior motives for the meeting?

☆ ‘Life of Pi’ Review: Bringing the Sea to Broadway
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Charles Isherwood | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

New YorkYann Martel ’s much-cherished novel “Life of Pi” might appear impossible to bring to the stage, or at least to present herculean challenges. With its fantastical tale of a teenage boy adrift at sea for more than 200 days, his only company an injured zebra, an orangutan and, more dangerously, a hyena and a tiger, the novel would seem to elude the embrace of stagecraft. Film, with its arsenal of special effects, makes a more natural medium for such a book’s translation, and Ang Lee has already made a popular movie version of it.

☆ Michelle Yeoh wins best actress Oscar for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

By Nichola GroomLOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Michelle Yeoh won the Academy Award on Sunday for best lead actress for her role as a Chinese American laundromat owner dealing with family turmoil in "Everything Everywhere All at Once", becoming the first Asian woman to win in the category. Yeoh, 60, was widely regarded as the front-runner for the award after claiming a Screen Actors Guild honor and a Golden Globe award for the role. In "Everything Everywhere," Yeoh's character, Evelyn Wang, is struggling to finish her taxes when she is swept into alternate universes. The science-fiction film was a critical and commercial success and is vying for the best picture Oscar. (Reporting by Nichola Groom; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)((nichola.groom@thomsonreuters.com))Keywords: AWARDS OSCARS/ACTRESSOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ China, Hong Kong resume high-speed rail link after 3 years of Covid curbs
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Staff members hold a sign at Guangzhou South Railway Station to celebrate the resumption of high-speed rail services on January 15, 2023 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland resumed their high-speed train services starting from January 15 after a three-year suspension due to Covid-19. China resumed on Sunday high-speed rail services between Hong Kong and the mainland for the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, as it dismantles travel curbs after Beijing scrapped quarantine for arrivals a week earlier. "For the past three years, due to the pandemic, it has not been easy to enter China in any way," added Mang, originally from the southern city of Guangzhou. "I have not been able to go home for a long time."

[1/5] A Chinese police officer stands guard at in the mainland port area of West Kowloon High-Speed Train Station Terminus on the first day of the resumption of rail service to mainland China, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Hong Kong, China, January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Tyrone SiuHONG KONG/BEIJING, Jan 15 (Reuters) - China resumed on Sunday high-speed rail services between Hong Kong and the mainland for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, as it dismantles travel curbs after Beijing scrapped quarantine for arrivals a week earlier. Operations at West Kowloon station have been smooth, with a flow of about 1,400 passengers by 10 a.m., said Cheung Chi-keung, head of operator MTR Corp’s (0066.HK) cross-boundary operations. Hong Kong's transport secretary, Lam Sai-hung, said he could not confirm when long-haul journeys would resume, but that would be after talks with mainland authorities. Reporting by Joyce Zhou and Donny Kwok in Hong Kong and Martin Quin Pollard and Shuyan Wang in Beijing; Editing by Clarence FernandezOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ James Cameron's 'Avatar: The Way of Water' looks different from every movie you've ever seen—here's why
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

With "Avatar: The Way of Water" hitting theaters this weekend, director James Cameron is gambling that audiences are ready to not only return to Pandora after 13 years, but that they will be open to a film shot in 48 frames per second. For virtually the entire history of film, movies have been shot and displayed at the cinematic standard of 24 frames per second. This means that 24 still images are displayed on the screen every second, creating the illusion of motion. "It came to kind of define the genre of film," Richard Miller, executive vice president of technology at Pixelworks, says of the 24 frames per second look. Newscasts, live sports and even soap operas typically hit your TV screen at 30 frames per second, which gives them their distinct visual feel.

☆ Director Ang Lee will direct his son, playing Bruce Lee in biopic
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Brahmjot Kaur | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of “Brokeback Mountain” and “Life of Pi,” is set to direct an upcoming film about the Chinese American martial arts icon Bruce Lee. Mason Lee, the son of Ang Lee, will play Bruce Lee in Sony’s 3000 Pictures film. At 13, he went on to study wing chun kung fu under the renowned master Yip Man, according to the Bruce Lee Estate. He also developed his own martial art during this time called Jeet Kune Do, the Bruce Lee Foundation's website said. After “The Green Hornet” was canceled, Bruce Lee struggled to find work in Hollywood and returned to Hong Kong to pursue a film career.

☆ Park Chan-wook on 'Decision To Leave': 'This story departs from all conventions'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Director Park is no stranger to the slippery nature of language barriers. In the film, Korean detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) is probing the death of a climber who fell from a mountaintop on the outskirts of Busan. Director Park Chan-wook says he had a longstanding desire to cast the Chinese star in one of his films. The first part is “full-on male gaze,” Hae-joon “steal(ing) the look.” He inserts himself into Seo-rae’s life, even fantasizing standing in her living room, observing private moments. Tang Wei as suspect Seo-rae and Park Hael-il as detective Hae-joon in "Decision To Leave."

☆ 'Avatar' returns to theaters as Disney tries to hype audiences for its long-delayed sequel
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Bringing the highest-grossing film of all time back to theaters has two purposes for Disney: drum up excitement for "The Way of Water" and fill a vacant spot on the theatrical calendar. The rerelease of the original film is a sort of litmus test for whether audiences still want to visit its eco-conscious science fiction world. But it never captured the cultural relevance that Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe – both also owned by Disney – have enjoyed. "Avatar" captivated audiences more than a decade ago, in part because of the technology that Cameron helped develop to film and animate the movie. Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, "Avatar: The Way of Water" tells the story of the Sully family.

☆ BAFTA 2021: Lista câștigătorilor. „Nomadland” a dominat gala, obținând patru trofee
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-12 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +6 min

Filmul „Nomadland” este marele câștigător al galei premiilor BAFTA 2021, acestei pelicule revenindu-i trei dintre cele mai importante trofee: pentru cel mai bun film, cea mai bună regie și cea mai bună actriță. „Nomadland”, povestea unei comunităţi de nomazi moderni care străbat vestul Statelor Unite în rulote, este regizat de cineasta de origine chineză Chloe Zhao și o are ca protagonistă pe Frances McDormand. Veteranul Anthony Hopkins a fost desemnat cel mai bun actor în rol principal graţie interpretării rolului unui bărbat afectat de demenţă în pelicula „The Father”. Premiul pentru cel mai bun film britanic a fost obţinut de „Promising Young Woman”, o poveste despre răzbunare în epoca #MeToo, peliculă premiată şi în categoria „cel mai bun scenariu original”. Philip a fost primul preşedinte al BAFTA, în 1959.

Persons: Chloe Zhao, Zhao, Frances McDormand ., îşi, Anthony Hopkins, Jung Youn, Daniel Kaluuya, Fred Hampton, Ang Lee, Philip, Elisabeta a II, prinţul William, Frances McDormand, Jung, Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller, Thomas Vinterberg, Alexander Nanau, Ehrlich, James Reeda, Docter, Dana Murray, Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Joshua James Richards, Nielsen, Donald Graham Burt, Jan, Ann Roth, Larry M . Cherry, Sergio Lopez - Rivera, Mia Neal, Jaime Baksht, Nicolas Becker, Phillip Bladh, Carlos Cortés, Michelle Couttolenc, Scott Fisher, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lockley, Pardee Organizations: Black Panther, BAFTA, Academia britanică, Academia, Star Locations: Statelor Unite, rulote, Statele Unite, Coreea de Sud, britanic, and, Trent

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