This Sunday the BAFTAs, the awards given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television, and Argentina, 1985 you are more than invited. Santiago Miter’s film arrives in London with the clean and jerk that gave him the Golden Globe, and the Goya, last Saturday.
Santiago Miter and his partner, Dolores Fonzi, Peter Lanzani, and producers Victoria Alonso, Agustina Llambi Campbell and Axel Kuschevatzky will travel to the British capital, for Amazon Studios Javiera Balmaceda and James Farrell, and executive producers Cindy Teperman and Phin Glynn.
This will happen three weeks before the big appointment in Hollywood, at the Dolby Theater, where it will go to the Oscar for best international film. And if we focus on the titles it competes against this Sunday, there are only two that have also been nominated for the Hollywood Academy Award. I am No news at the front (Germany, by Edward Berger) e The quiet girl (Ireland, by Colm Bairead).
competition
As is the top contender in the category No news at the front, the film that can be seen on Netflix, and which earned a whopping 14 BAFTA nominations, including Best Overall Film, Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay and not many, but all the so-called technical, musical and cinematography categories trick . The story takes place on the German front during the First World War.
The quiet girl also set in the past, in 1981. It centers on a girl, Cáit, who is sent away for the summer by her dysfunctional family to live with Seán and Eibhlín Cinnsealach, a couple she has never met. Slowly, Cáit will discover a new way of life, but also a secret. She also competes in adapted screenplay.
The other two films that were BAFTA nominated but didn’t make the Oscar “cut” are corset (Belgium, by Marie Kreutzer), on Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi), the First Lady, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I, and must adopt a strict regimen of fasting and physical exercise. But she rebels.
AND Decision to leave (South Korea, by Park Chan-wook), about a meticulous detective who investigates a murder and falls in love with the victim’s widow. The director is also competing in the Best Director category.
The secret in their eyes, by Juan José Campanella, the last Argentine film to win an Oscar, was at the time nominated for a BAFTA in the category of best film not in the English language. He didn’t win it, as the statuette went to Men who didn’t like womenwhich was not an Oscar nominee.
The secret in their eyes It was the only Argentine film that had been nominated for a BAFTA in this category, so Argentina, 1985 is second. It can also be repeated The official story was nominated for the Golden Globe (and won it), and then took the Oscar, Argentina, 1985 won the Golden Globe.
I choose to believe.
In the Best Picture category, everything seems to be settled the spirits of the islandby Martin McDonagh, e All everywhere at the same time. One is very local – and even competes in the Best British Film section – and the other, American. which does not appear The Fabelmans among the nominees he surprised: of the important awards, he only aspires to the original screenplay, for Spielberg, which he co-authored with Tony Kushner.
Between this Sunday’s BAFTAs and the Oscars on Sunday March 12, Argentina, 1985 he will participate in two other awards, the Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards (February 24) and the Satellite Awards (March 3).
It has already won, in addition to the Golden Globe and the Goya (awarded by the Spanish Film Academy), the National Board of Review’s Freedom of Expression Award, the Audience Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival and, in its world premiere, at the Venice Film Festival in September, he won two unofficial prizes, the Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) and the Signis.
And it is entering, with the BAFTAs, the final sprint. Winning would be recognition, just days before the opening of the final voting for the Oscar, which will take place on Thursday 2 March.
I choose to believe.
Source: Clarin
