This Tuesday, January 24 at 10:30 the announcement of the nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will begin, and Argentina, 1985by Santiago Mitre, with Ricardo Darin, you can make history. A first preselection has already passed, out of 92 titles from as many countries there are 15 left. And in hours it will be known if it is among the five candidates for the Hollywood Academy Award.
If he reaches the nomination and is one of the five competing for the prize on Sunday 12 March, he will be the eighth Argentinean production to apply in the category. Our country has won the award twice, on March 24, 1986, exactly 10 years after the coup that overthrew María Estela Martínez de Perón, when she won The official storyby Luis Puenzo.
Then it was The secret in their eyesOf Juan José CampanellaIn 2010.
Here’s a rundown of the seven films that competed for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film or International Film, along with their directors, cast, storylines, and who they won—or who they lost.
Source: Clarin
