Argentina, 1985 and Bardo joined the list of 15 nominees for the Academy Award for Best International Film this Wednesday. They will be the only Latin American representatives for Argentina and Mexico respectively, since Alcarràs was eliminated from the competition by director Carla Simón, the Spanish representative and winner of the last Berlinale by failing the first cut among the 92 titles of as many countries sent to the Hollywood Film Academy. In addition to this shortlist, the lists of nominees for the Documentary, Documentary Short, Make-up and Hairdressing, Original Music, Song, Short and Animated Short, Sound and Visual Effects categories were announced. The nominees for the 95th edition of the awards will be announced on January 24th. The closing gala will take place on March 12 in Los Angeles.
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Argentina, 1985, directed by Santiago Miter and starring Ricardo Darín, cements its solid run through the awards season. A few days ago, the feature film about the trial of the military junta, distributed worldwide by Amazon, received a Golden Globe nomination in the foreign film category. These awards, which are trying to bounce back from their fall from grace, skipped Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Bardo, who made it into the 15 shortlisted for the International Film Oscar category. It is the third time that Iñárritu, who already has five statuettes in other departments, appears in this category. He has previously done so with Amores perros in 2001 and Biutiful ten years later.
These films are accompanied by the Polish EO, the veteran Jerzy Skolimowski, the story of a donkey, which has captivated international critics since its premiere in Cannes. There is also the German war drama All Quiet on the Front from Netflix (as Bard). Edward Berger’s film takes up Erich Maria Remarque’s novel about the First World War and is one of the favorites in this category. The academy also recognized her in four other sections this Wednesday: makeup and hairdressing, sound, visual effects and original music, in the film that best came out of the pre-candidates announcement this Wednesday.
The shortlist also confirmed the big moment South Korean cinema is experiencing. Decision to Leave by Park Chan-Wook, one of his great creators, also entered the last five as another favorite. The director of Oldboy and The Maiden directs a Hitchcockian thriller starring a detective and a femme fatale. The rest of the films include The Rebel Empress from Austria; Close, from Belgium; Return to Seoul from Cambodia; the Danish Holy Spider (set in Tehran); Saint Omer from France, Irish The Quiet Girl, Moroccan The Blue Caftan, Indian Last Film Show (which won in Seminci) and Swedish Conspiracy in El Cairo.
For the first time, Pakistan has managed to have its own film, Joyland, come out on the big screen. The milestone was reached by filmmaker Saim Sadiq with a powerful story that broke taboos, a romance between a married man and a trans woman. The drama received the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, where it was also the first Pakistani film to compete. The film was censored in its country, but the authorities gave in and allowed its release in theaters with some modifications.
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