the film Rodrigo Soroguen’s “As bestas” won the César Award for Best Foreign Filmwhile the movie The film “Pacifiction” by Catalan director Albert Serra also won this award in the Best Cinematography categoryThe French Academy of Arts announced Friday.
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After sweeping Goyas in Seville with nine awards, Sorogoyen once again steps onto the podium, this time at the Théâtre Olympia in Paris, to receive the award given by the French Academy for As bestas, specifically nominated for this single category. “Thank you for allowing us to be a small part of French cinema,” the Spanish director said upon receiving the award. ‘As bestas’ competed alongside Belgian Close (Lukas Dhont), Swedish boy from heaven (Tariq Salih), Polish EO (Jerzy Skolimowski) as well as Swedish triangle of grief (Ruben Östlund).
For its part, Pacifiction was nominated in nine categories at the 2023 César Awards. The three-time Gaudí Award winner received nominations in the categories of Film, Direction, Actor (Benoît Magimel), Photography, Sound, Original Music, Visual Effects and Sets. and fashion. Finally, it was Artur Torte who won the César Award for Best Cinematography. Receiving the award, the director of photography from Vic (Barcelona) said: “Thank you Albert for all that we have done and experienced, and for all that we still have to do.”
