French composer duo Clément Ducol and Camille took residence the unique tune award on the Oscars on Sunday for his or her monitor, “El Mal.”
In January, “El Mal” earned the pair a Golden Globe in the identical class.
The musical “Emilia Pérez” is a number of issues — a musical, a transgender parable, endlessly controversial and regularly criticized for its depiction of Mexican tradition.
“We are so grateful,” Camille mentioned in her acceptance speech. “We wrote ‘El Mal’ as a song to denounce corruption, and we hope it speaks to the role music and art can play and continue to play as a force of good and progress in the world.”
The award was offered by Mick Jagger. “I wasn’t the first choice,” he joked. “The producers really wanted Bob Dylan to do it.”
Ducol and Camille beat Diane Warren for “The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight,” Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Brandi Carlile and Andrew Watt for “Never Too Late” from “Elton John: Never Too Late,” and Abraham Alexander, Brandon Marcel and Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada for “Like A Bird” from “Sing Sing.”
Additionally they beat themselves: Their composition “Mi Camino” from “Emilia Pérez” was additionally up for the award.
The primary-time Oscar nominees had a complete of three nominations, together with unique rating, on the 97th Academy Awards.
“You go from anxiety to relief, and you’re filled up with energy and you need that,” Camille instructed The Related Press in January, when nominations had been introduced. “We’ve worked so much, and we’ve worked so much for the campaign … I feel very fulfilled and very happy for all the team.”
Camille mentioned the movie’s recognition “represents something very important.”
“It’s a very free, provocative and empathic, compassionate movie. And I really think this is what we need now.”
“It’s totally incredible. I was like, ‘What?’ It’s three nominations. It’s huge,” added Ducol. “We were involved at the beginning of the construction of the story in music … So everything is linked together, is woven together between the script, the screenplay, the songs. And so, we feel like it’s our story, our movie … It’s not just a musical or reflecting a story or reflecting action in the movie. The music and the songs, in this movie, is the script. It is the story.”
In one other music class, first-time Academy Award nominee Daniel Blumberg is now an Oscar winner. He took residence the trophy for unique rating for “The Brutalist” on Sunday.
Blumberg beat Ducol and Camille (“Emilia Pérez”), Kris Bowers (“The Wild Robot”), Volker Bertelmann (“Conclave”) and John Powell and Stephen Schwartz (“Wicked”).
“I’ve been an artist for 20 years now,” Blumberg mentioned in his acceptance speech. “And once I met (director) Brady (Corbet) I met my inventive soulmate.”
Corbet’s “The Brutalist” follows Lázló Tóth, a fictional visionary Hungarian architect who escaped the Holocaust, sailed to the USA to seek out his American Dream and created the fashion of structure the movie takes its title from.
When the nominations had been introduced in January, Blumberg instructed The Related Press that he was truly with Corbet when he realized of his first-ever nod. “It’s been quite a surreal day,” he mentioned. The pair shared a hug when the information arrived.
“‘The Brutalist’ was always such an important project for me,” Blumberg continued, describing the staff behind it as devoted to creating “something with urgency, to make something with no compromise.”
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