Oscar D-Day is over. Let’s go and reconstruct the activity of the Argentines, and what hasn’t been seen on television.
The delegation of Argentina, 1985 who sat in the seats of the Dolby Theater was composed of the director, Santiago Mitra and his partner, Dolores Fonzi; Ricardo Darin and his wife, Florencia Bas; Peter Lanzani, and producers Victoria Alonso, Axel Kuschevatzky, Agustina Llambi Campbell, Federico Posternak, Santiago Carabante and Cindy Teperman.
And Javiera Balmaceda, sister of actor Pedro Pascal, Chilean like him, and responsible for the original content of the streaming platform for Amazon in Latin America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand also joined.
The truth is, they got there so early — most of them left West Hollywood, anticipating traffic complications, due to scheduled Hollywood cutbacks — that they had to wait to be allowed into the Dolby.
We already said yesterday that, since there were so many in the delegation, the tickets left, simultaneously, little by little, and they weren’t all sitting in the same row, or in the same sector.
On the one hand, Santiago Miter and Ricardo Darín, accompanied by their partners, were in a bank account. Across the hall were the Germans from No news at the front. If you pay attention to the moment when Edward Berger gets up, starts waving and walks towards the audience, you can see Mitre, Fonzi, Darín and Bas applauding.
Peter Lanzani was further back, next to producer Federico Posternak. And we talk to him.
-You told me it was a party to be at the ceremony.
-Impressive, I mean the same thing we knew before we came in, it’s a re-experience, the film has come a long way and represents our country. For us it is a great joy.
-Are there any feelings that went through your head when the award for the German film was announced? What happened to you?
-Well, this is an adrenaline rush, isn’t it? But it’s like when you go to a play and if nothing like that happens to you, there’s no point in doing it. Then you win, then you lose. I had a PE teacher tell me “you won, but just like you won, you lost. And you lost, but just like you lost, you won.” Those are experiences. The moral is to make another film to try to follow the same path and end up winning an Oscar.
-What do you take with you from this particular trip, back to Buenos Aires?
-Anecdotes with friends and experiences, more than anything, which is what matters most to me. And being able to enjoy all this with friends, beyond the group, of being colleagues. After making a film we are friends and it is very nice to be able to share it with other teams.
-When you saw that Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek took the stage to announce the award for Best International Film, it seemed like it could happen…
-I don’t know, the die was cast a long time ago, and it all ends when they read the title on the envelope. And ours didn’t come out, huh.
The vanity fair party
At the end of the ceremony, the nominees and those attending the ceremony are invited to the Governors Ball, the party that the Hollywood Academy organizes to honor the winners. It is not “mandatory” to go, i.e. anyone who does not take a statuette cannot participate.
But there are few who do not come across the room, where even the winners, while drinking and eating – in some cases they went more than 5 hours without eating – wait for their name to be engraved on the base of the gold-plated statuette weighing greater than 3 kilograms.
And then, THE party is that of the magazine Vanity Fair. It was on Santa Monica Boulevard, almost around the corner from Tatel restaurant, where the Argentina after party, 1985 was held, but in Beverly Hills.
With so many roads closed to traffic, getting from downtown Hollywood to Beverly Hills isn’t easy.
Nobody complained.
Many stars appeared there who were at the Dolby, but with different looks and clothes. Actresses, such as Angela Bassett, who perhaps because she fancied taking the Oscar for best supporting actress for Black Panther: Wakanda Forevershe was wearing a dress other than the blue of the ceremony.
They say parties in public places after 2 in the morning cannot sell alcoholic beverages. Something that obviously doesn’t have to be limited in private parties. Without limits.
As the Vanity Fairfor which access must have a special accreditation, or name bearing, as they say.
Source: Clarin
