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US actress Laura Dern (center) poses with the award for a Supporting British costume designer Jacqueline Durran poses with the award for New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi poses Actress for her work on the film ‘Marriage Story’. Costume Design for their work on the film ‘Little Women’. with the award for an Adapted Screenplay for the film ‘Jojo Rabbit’.

BEST FILM ORIGINAL SCORE Hair stylist Anne Morgan poses with the award for Makeup and 1917 - Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, Jayne-Ann Tenggren Joker - Hildur Guonadottir Hair for her work on the film ‘Bombshell’. LEADING ACTRESS CASTING Renee Zellweger - Judy Joker - Shayna Markowitz LEADING ACTOR CINEMATOGRAPHY Joaquin Phoenix - Joker 1917 - Roger Deakins SUPPORTING ACTRESS EDITING Laura Dern - Marriage Story Le Mans ‘66 - Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker SUPPORTING ACTOR COSTUME DESIGN Brad Pitt - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Little Women - Jacqueline Durran OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM MAKE UP & HAIR 1917 - Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Bombshell - Vivian Baker, Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan Krysty Wilson-Cairns SOUND Bait - Mark Jenkin, Kate Byers, Linn Waite 1917 - , Oliver Tarney, , Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS Parasite - Bong Joon-ho 1917 - Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy DOCUMENTARY BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION For Sama - Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts Grandad was a Romantic - Maryam Mohajer ANIMATED FILM BRITISH SHORT FILM Klaus - Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh Learning to skateboard in a warzone (if you’re a girl) - Carol Dysinger, Elena DIRECTOR Andreicheva 1917 - Sam Mendes EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public) ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Micheal Ward Parasite - Han Jin Won, Bong Joon-ho OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA AWARD ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Andy Serkis Jojo Rabbit - Taika Waititi

Spanish animator and director Sergio Pablo (left) and film pro- ducer Jinko Gotoh (right) pose with their awards for an Animated Film for ‘Klaus’. US actor Brad Pitt winner of Supporting Actor for his work British actor Andy Serkis poses with the award for Outstanding Contribution LE MANS ‘66 Film editor Andrew Buckland (left) and US film editor Michael McCusker on the film ‘Once Upon a Time to British Film. (right) pose with their awards for Editing for their work on the film ‘Le Mans ‘66’. in Hollywood’.

British actor Micheal Ward poses with the Rising Star Award. Filmmakers Carol Dysinger (left) and Elena Andreicheva (right) pose with the awards for a British Short Film for ‘Learning To Iranian-British filmmaker Maryam Mohajer poses with the award Skateboard In A Warzone (If You’re A Girl). for a British Short Animation for ‘Grandad Was A Romantic’.

zech rock guitarist, songwriter and producer Ivan Kral, who played with , and CDavid Bowie, has died aged 71, the organizers of a festival said yesterday. “We’re terribly sorry but year after the movie “Roma” cata- doing interviews and photo shoots for top been reluctant to acknowledge its own been,” she said. “Lots of times, people we have to confirm the information that Ivan Kral has pulted her from obscurity to an magazines such as Vogue and Vanity Fair- racism. “We are not new faces, we are sim- think being a feminist means being ‘more passed away,” said the Metronome Festival Prague organ- AOscar nomination, Mexican actress where indigenous faces are rare. Of ply the people we always were, but who than men’ when in reality, it’s just a ques- izers on Facebook. Kral died of cancer in his Michigan Yalitza Aparicio is using the spotlight to course, the praise was accompanied by nobody had ever bothered looking at tion of seeking the equality that so many of home, his wife Cindy Hudson said on Twitter. promote causes close to her heart: indige- some vitriol on social media. Many with before,” she said. “May we never again be us lack.” Born in 1948, just after the Communists seized power in nous and women’s rights in her country. indigenous roots in Mexico have experi- afraid to say, ‘Enough! We exist too!’” former , Kral moved to the United States Taking a break from film sets, the 26-year- enced discrimination, in a society that has Back to her roots with his parents in 1966 when he was already an old from the Mixtec community in the ‘I am a feminist’ Aparicio stumbled into the world of acclaimed musician at home. He played with Blondie in southern state of Oaxaca is dedicating this On the back of “Roma,” Aparicio con- movies by chance. Having recently gradu- 1974 before joining the Patti Smith Group a year later. Kral year to working as a UNESCO goodwill nected with many ordinary women in ated as a teacher, she accompanied her wrote a number of songs with Patti Smith, including ambassador for indigenous peoples. In her Mexico, and pushed celebrities to lend sister to a casting call-with no idea that ‘’, and scores for several films, including new role, Aparicio-the first indigenous their support to the Latin American femi- she herself would be cast and it would Barry Levinson’s 1982 debut ‘Diner’. woman ever nominated for a best actress nist movement. Chilean singer Mon Laferte change her life. Her sudden flurry of globe- When the Communist regime in former Czechoslovakia Oscar-returned to school this week to give invited Aparicio to appear in the video for trotting due to the success of “Roma” left fell in the 1989 , Kral started to return to a talk at Harvard University’s Mexico her song “Plata Ta Ta,” a high-octane reg- her longing to return to her hometown of his home country as a performer and producer. — AFP Conference 2020. gaeton performance in which Aparicio Tlaxiaco, a community of 40,000 people In an interview with AFP in Mexico wore a green headscarf, the international in the mountains who now see her as a star. City, she said she understood that fame symbol of the struggle for women’s rights. “When I go back home, they say to me, Ivan Kral and her career would be “a series of ups In her native Oaxaca-the second place in ‘What are you washing the dishes for? You and downs.” “So the thing is to use this Mexico after the capital to decriminalize just sit down, you’re a celebrity!’ and I current high to lend visibility [to indige- abortion-conservatives have criticized her quip back that the plates aren’t going to nous communities] and to explain to more liberal stance, but she is holding firm. suddenly slip out of my hands,” she said. people the things that I have been con- “Every one of us is free to decide for Aparicio used to dream that one day her cerned about,” she said. “It’s been gratify- themselves, depending on their situation,” students would come back to her and show ing.” Aparacio became an inspiration to she said. “I am simply supporting the right off their university degrees: she now hopes many Mexicans when she earned rave which all women have: we are free to make her work will inspire others. “I bump into reviews for her role in “Roma,” by Mexican decisions about our own bodies.” Violence more and more people who say ‘Yes I can director Alfonso Cuaron. The film ended up against women in Mexico — 10 are killed do this,’ and that gives me lots of energy,” winning three Oscars. Her “Roma” charac- every day, according to the United she said with a smile. — AFP ter Cleo is a domestic worker inspired by Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio, Oscar nomi- Nations-and female empowerment come Cuaron’s own childhood nanny. nee for the film ‘Roma’ in 2019, poses for a up often when Aparicio speaks, and she The film’s success not only brought her photograph after an interview with AFP, in describes herself as a “feminist for equali- international plaudits, but she ended up Mexico City. — AFP ty.” “I am a feminist and I always have