Just as Lionel Messi was able to finally lift the World Cup at the World Cup in Qatar, giving Argentina its third Cup, Argentina, 1985 It also goes, as the song popularized during the World Cup put it, “for the third”, in this case, the third Oscar statuette for best international film.
And continuing with the spirit of the World Cup, here’s a piece of information in case anyone likes to get caught up in this coincidence: just like Argentina, in 1985 they won the Golden Globe, the only time our country had won it (The official storyin 1986)…then won the Oscar for best film not spoken in English.
After last night’s historic triumph at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where he took a beating and left two darlings on the street, the Indian RRR and German No news at the front, Santiago Miter’s film is well placed before the announcement of the Oscar nominations. It will be in less than two weeks, Tuesday 24 January.
What comes to “Argentina, 1985”
But before the announcement of the nominations for the Hollywood Academy Awards, the film with Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani in the role of prosecutors Julio César Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo (who was at the Golden Globes last night) in the historic Trial of the military juntas of the last dictatorship, you can have more joys. And raise his possible Oscar nomination.
Is that on Thursday next week, January 19, the British Academy of Film and Television will announce its nominees for the BAFTA awards. And Argentina, 1985 has already passed a first cut – the same thing was done with the Oscar: 15 of the 92 titles were selected, and from there the five nominees will come out -, so maybe, who knows, in one of those, Mitre, Darín and company will be in London on February 19 for the awards ceremony.
Hollywood Academy members can vote on nominations tomorrow, Thursday, January 12 through Tuesday, January 17.
Today, Wednesday 11 January, however, both the directors’ union (DGA) and the performers’ union (Screen Actors Guild Awards) announce their candidates.
Argentina and the Oscars
Our Country won the Hollywood Academy Award when it was still nominated for Best Foreign Film for the first time in 1986, when Norma Aleandro said “God bless you” and then mentioned The official story, the award-winning film by Luis Puenzo. It was March 24, ten years after the coup.
We had to wait 24 years, in 2010, for another Argentinian production to win the prize. Was The secret in their eyesby j.John Joseph Campanellawho starred, like Argentina, 1985Ricardo Darin.
And Ricardo Darín is the wild card for our country and the Oscar. It was in the last three Argentine films that received nominations: an Oscar for The secret in their eyes we must add the candidacy of The son of the bride (2003), also by Campanella, e wild tales (2015), by Damian Szifron.
Golden Globe winners and losers
Not only Argentina, 1985 It did well for an Oscar. The Fabelmans, by Steven Spielberg, after winning two statuettes, for best drama and best director, stands as a serious candidate. The same as the spirits of the islandby Martin McDonagh, winner of three awards (best comedy or musical, actor in a comedy or musical -Colin Farrell- and screenplay, by the same director).
For Spielberg it meant his third Globes distinction, after winning by Schindler’s List Y Save Private Ryan. And it was the second statuette for the Irish actor: the first was for another work also directed by McDonagh, Hidden away in Brugesat the 2009 ceremony.
Among the winners there were several permanents, who could at least guarantee their Oscar nomination. But let’s not forget that 10,000 people vote for the Oscar, now that membership has been opened up to many foreigners, residents outside the US, and the Golden Globes aren’t even 2%, and they don’t even vote for the Oscar after Academy of Hollywood.
Cate Blanchett, who won her fourth award since Elizabeth, I’m not there Y Blue jasminefor Best Drama Actress for tarMichelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, Best Actress in a Comedy and Supporting Actor in a Comedy, both for All everywhere at the same timethey are waiting. Angela Bassett, Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverousted another favorite of Everything everywhere, at the same timeJamie Lee Curtis.
Austin Butler, for his imitation in Elvis, won best actor in a drama and could be among the nominees for an Oscar. And the Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro definitely repeat and win the Oscar for best animated film.
On TV, Abbott Elementary was the big winner of the night, picking up three awards (best musical or comedy series, actress and supporting actor, for Quinta Brunson and Tyler James Williams).
Last night there were many first-time winners, as well as young people, who were nominated for the first time in their careers. Quinta Brunson and Tyler James Williams are joined by Austin Butler, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Zendaya (Best Actress – Drama, for Euphoriadid not attend the ceremony), Jeremy Allen White (Outstanding Actor in a Musical or Comedy Series, per Bear) and Evan Peters, Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, per Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
And on the other side of the scale was the big loser The crownwhich got none of the four statuettes for which it was nominated (drama series, lead actress for Imelda Staunton, and supporting actors, Jonathan Pryce and Elizabeth Debecki: Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Lady Di in the new season of the Netflix series ).
Source: Clarin
