Breaking Baz: Cannes Chief Thierry Frémaux Proclaims 2024 Academy Awards ‘The Cannes Oscars’ As He Parties At the Charles Finch & Chanel Annual Soiree In Beverly Hills
deadline.comThe 96th Academy Awards ceremony should be known as the Cannes Oscars, argues Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux.
He’s got a point. Frémaux sipped a cocktail at the Charles Finch and Chanel Annual Pre-Oscar Dinner in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and ticked off Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest as films that played and won the top prizes at last May’s festival.
Michael Barker, Sony Picture Classics co-chair, helped Frémaux out by adding in Martin Scorsese’s The Killers of the Flower Moon, which also premiered on the Croisette. “Here we are in March, and the top winners at last year’s Cannes are still in the conversation, and are here at the Oscars,” says Frémaux, giving himself a pat on the back. RELATED: Oscar Week 2024 Parties & Events List: The List He adds that the Best Picture line-up has “a Cannes feel about it,” even though seven of the movies never played at Cannes.
Frémaux noted that he would have “happily” welcomed American Fiction, The Holdovers, Maestro, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things and Barbie. “I’m an admirer of Greta Gerwig,” he tells me, idly joking that the color pink “is popular” in the south of France. “Cannes is the starting point, always,” he boasted. “And this year we prove that!” RELATED: Oscar Nominations: Diversified Voting Throws The Love Around As ‘Oppenheimer’ Tops With 13, With ‘Poor Things’, ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ And ‘Barbie’ Close Behind – Full List And then the Cannes topper scarpered away, laughing as he did so because he knew what was coming next. “No, no, we cannot talk about this year’s Cannes!” As he legged it, I spotted Sandra Hüller, the Best Actress nominee for Anatomy of a Fall and star of The
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