Argentina, 1985Of Santiago Mitrawhich star Ricardo Darin and Peter Lanzani, earned an Academy Award nomination for Best International Film and will compete on Sunday, March 12 for the award given by the Academy of Hollywood.
The other four productions it will compete with are No news at the frontby Edward Berger (Germany), closeby Lukas Dhont (Belgium), The quiet girlby Colm Bairéad (Ireland) e Heyby Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland).
Academy president Janet Yang introduced actors Riz Ahmed (the sound of metal) and Allison Williams (the recent M3GAN, Girls), in charge of announcing the nominations in the 23 categories. They did it from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, at the Academy, in Los Angeles.
The film on the trial of the military juntas was sent at the time by the Argentine Film Academy to the Hollywood branch of the same name. Of the 92 titles sent from as many countries, a preselection was made, the famous one short list or short list, of fifteen films, released on December 21st. Y Argentina, 1985 I was past that cut.
It is the eighth Argentinian 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, and in 2010, with The secret in their eyesby Juan José Campanella.
When is the Oscar ceremony?
The Hollywood Academy Award ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 12 at the Dolby Theater in downtown Hollywood. It will be in the same place that Juan José Campanella thanked the prize for The secret in their eyes. And we already know who will officiate as host: it will be comedian Jimmy Kimmel.
Ricardo Darín, who in addition to playing the prosecutor Julio César Strassera is one of the film’s producers, starred in half of the national films that achieved the nomination. He was in the bottom four: The son of the bride (in 2002), e The secret in their eyes (in 2010), both by Juan José Campanella, wild tales (applicant in 2015), by Damián Szifron, and now, Argentina, 1985.
The other four films that made it to the nomination for the golden statuette, which is 34 centimeters tall and weighs 3.85 kilograms, were Truceby Sergio Renán, in the 1975 edition; Camilla, by María Luisa Bemberg, in 1985; the aforementioned The official storyby Luis Puenzo, who won it in 1986, and Tangoby the Spanish Carlos Saura, in 1999.
The international tour of Argentina, 1985, began on Saturday 3 September 2022, when it had its world premiere as part of the Venice International Film Festival. He was in the running for the Golden Lion and, while not winning any official prize, he won two others, one from the critics (FIPRESCI) and one from Signis.
Then it crossed over to the San Sebastián Festival, where it was exhibited in the Pearl section of other festivals, and ended up winning the Audience Award. It also went to the London Festival.
And since the start of awards season this year she has been nominated for or won awards. First it was the Golden Globe, where it became the second Argentine film to win it, after The official story. She and she was nominated for Critic’s Choice Awards where in the category she competed in she won India RRRand was nominated for the BAFTA, the award presented by the British Film and Television Academy, for best film not in the English language.
But the ultimate goal is the Oscar, the prize that will close the awards season.
Source: Clarin
