“Argentine, 1985”the film directed by Santiago Miter and starring Ricardo Darin which tells the background of Trial of the Boards, won the Golden Globe last night for the best foreign film of the 80th edition of the awards given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The triumph of the Argentine production leaves it well positioned in its candidacy to access the shortlist of oscar awards international filma goal she came close to by being shortlisted on the short list of 15 candidates.
The fate of the national film will be defined on January 24 with the Oscar nominations announced by the Hollywood Academywith room for five feature films that will compete on March 12 at the ceremony to be held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles with comedian Jimmy Kimmel conducting.
“I am very happy to be here. I want to dedicate this award to the great actor Ricardo Darín and to all those who fought for democracy in Argentina,” Miter said when thanking him for the distinction. While Darín expressed: “Thank you very much, I am very proud of this award. And for the people of Argentina, after the world championship, this is a great joy. I love you.” Before the ceremony began, Darín, Lanzani and Miter were photographed on the red carpet together with former prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, played by Peter Lanzani in the film.
With the background in 1986 of “La historia oficial”, by Luis Puenzo, the film won the Golden Globe for Best Non-English Language Film, in which it prevailed over the German “All Quiet on the Western Front”, the Belgian “Close”, the South Korean “Decision to Leave” and India “RRR”. The film, written by Miter and his regular collaborator Mariano Llinás, stars Darín and Lanzani and it was the only Latin American film in competition at the awards held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles that honor the best of American film and television.
Mitre’s film, which follows the story of how prosecutors Julio Strassera, played by Darín, and Moreno Ocampo organize the trial of the military juntas of the last dictatorship, was shortlisted last week in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the Bafta British Film Awards, to be held on February 19 at an event hosted by Hayley Atwell and Toheeb Jimoh. The movie, which It was the most viewed last year in Argentine theatersyou must wait until January 19 to find out if it will be part of the final list of five international productions that will compete for the award, given by the United Kingdom Academy of Film and Television.
The historical drama also got nominations at the Goya and Critics’ Choice Awards and developed an extensive tour of international festivals since its premiere in theaters on September 29, such as in Venice, where it won the critics’ award (FIPRESCI); San Sebastián, where he won the Audience Award; Havana, where he won best male performance (Darín), artistic direction (Micaela Saiegh) and script (Llinás and Mitre), among others. It was also announced that Miter’s feature film was nominated in the category of best sound direction in a foreign language feature film at the Golden Reel, an award given by sound editors: the first time that an Argentine film has been nominated. In addition, next Sunday the Argentine production will compete for a Critics’ Choice award.
The Argentine background winners at the Oscars are “The official story” in 1986 and “The secret in their eyes”, by Juan José Campanella, in 2010, while the last time a local production reached the nominations was five years later with “Wild Tales” by Damián Szifrón. “You don’t have a film this year that you say ‘this one is clearly going to win or has the lead’. The wildest race of all is not for best film, but for foreign films because, unlike a couple of years ago with ‘Parasites’ or last year with ‘Drive my Car’, where there was clearly an international film that stood out as the one adored by the whole world, this is a quite unpredictable year,” he said days ago in dialogue with Télam Axel Kuschevatzkyproducer of “Argentina, 1985”.
As for the place that the Golden Globes occupy in the awards scene, the producer maintained that “they have the characteristic, along with the Critics’ Choice, of being the awards for journalists with the highest profile because they are the two national award organizations “. “And there’s the National Board of Review, which basically brings together the highest-profile critics in the United States. In that sense, those are the three that have weight in amplification before the awards show begins on the way to the Oscars, which give the unions of actors, scriptwriters, directors and producers. The Golden Globe and the Critics’ Choice have the potential to install among the groups of voters the idea of ’Ok, here’s something I didn’t see, maybe I have to give it a ball.‘” he added.
