Ricardo Darinalong with the dozen Argentines who make up the entourage of Argentina, 1985have already left the hotel on their way to the Dolby Theater, where this afternoon here in Hollywood, Argentina night, they can make history.
The walk from the London Hollywood Hotel in West Hollywood to the Dolby Theater on normal days would take no more than 20 minutes. But today it will take no less than an hour.
The city has closed all traffic near the Dolby, and there, in the heart of Hollywood, so many stars and special guests will be arriving that the wait will be long.
For this reason, the vehicles that Amazon Studios has organized to take the Argentines have picked them up in the different places where they stay, or live, to be able to arrive on time and not miss anything, not even the champagne carpet – this year they have changed the color and no longer the traditional red- nor the power to chat with other candidates.
The entourage that will sit in the Dolby armchairs is made up of the director, Santiago Mitra and his partner, Dolores Fonzi; Ricardo Darín and his wife Florencia Bas; Peter Lanzaniand the producers victory too, Axel KushchevatzkyAgustina Llambi Campbell, Federico Posternak, Santiago Carabante, Cindy Teperman and Javiera Balmaceda, sister of actor Pedro Pascal, Chilean like him, and head of original content for Amazon’s streaming platform in Latin America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
how they will sit
Since there are so many in the delegation, the tickets have left, at the same time, little by little, and they won’t all be seated in the same row.
On the one hand, Santiago Miter and Ricardo Darín, accompanied by their partners, will be in a sector of the public. On the other, Peter Alfonso will be next to the producer Federico Posternak, and so on.
For those who have come from Buenos Aires, but will not be seated at the Dolby Theater, and for special guests, Amazon, which is one of the producers of the film, has arranged a special seat. They will follow what happens at the ceremony at the Tatel restaurant in Beverly Hills – Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal and his compatriot, basketball player Pau Gasol, who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers, are one of the owners. Victoria Alonso, it seems, was one of the people in charge of getting the restaurant.
Among those who have traveled to be here are cinematographer Javier Juliá (wild talesand who did the lighting of Misanthropefilm debut of Damián Szifron in the United States, and which he directed in Montreal, posing as Baltimore).
There is also Pedro Osuna, Spanish composer of the film’s music. Juliá and four other members of the film’s technical team paid for the tickets and rented an apartment, to closely follow everything that happens on this night, which could be truly historic.
The activity of the Argentines has not had, nor does it rest. Friday afternoon was the symposium that the Hollywood Academy holds in each edition, which brings together the directors of the five films nominated for Best International Film. This time, it was not done in the Samuel Goldwyn room of the Academy – from there the Oscar candidates are always read -, but in the Museum of the Academy.
And it had another peculiarity: each director was made to talk about a film by another of the nominees. It was Miter’s turn No news on the frontand, the German production that many analysts are giving as a favorite to win the statuette tonight.
With the entourage already complete -Ricardo Darín and his wife, Florencia Bas, were the last to arrive in Los Angeles on Friday morning from Buenos Aires-, they went to visit the Observatory, where the famous scene was filmed Of La La Land. And at night they attended the party organized by CAA (Creative Artists Agency), an American talent and sports agency based in Los Angeles, for which Santiago Miter signed up.
What does this mean? That the CAA will represent him in front of the producers, reach him with projects and also disseminate the ideas of which the director The student AND the band. The road opens to Santiago.
At that party there was the whole Hollywood jet set, represented or not by that agency, with which they met last night, at The night before, the party that featured the camaraderie of Angela Bassett, Cate Blanchett and George Clooney (in alphabetical order and as noted in the invite). It has been held for 21 years, precisely the night before the Academy Awards ceremony.
the cocktail
Earlier yesterday at 16:00, a welcome cocktail was held for the Spanish-speaking media who had come to cover the Oscars ceremony. And, coincidentally, there was Iván de Pineda, who dazzled a few blocks away at Versace’s fall-winter season presentation show.
De Pineda stops by the London Hollywood, the same hotel as Darín and Mitre, and stopped by to say hello. consulted by clarionhe said that “here, today, the center of attention is Argentina, 1985They deserve it very much”, and briefly retraced what that show was like, on the roof of the Pacific Design Center, in West Hollywood. “They were from Elton John to Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, Anne Hathaway and Naomi Campbell,” she snapped.
“It’s been six years since I’ve shown, and it’s great to be back with my first love,” De Pineda told us, and it became clear that the show was no exception, and that she will do it again for the same couture house .
Also there was Alejo García Pintos, a great friend of Victoria Alonso since childhood. He stops at the Marvel president’s house. The actor, who plays one of the judges in Argentina, 1985he was Pablo Díaz in Night of the Pencils (1986).
All that remains is to wait for the envelope to be opened and the Oscar award to be mentioned for best international film.
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Source: Clarin
