Almost nothing is missing anymore.
Today, Tuesday, January 24, is the day on which the announcement of the Oscar nominations will be made, the Hollywood Academy Award, and
Argentina, 1985
appears with a chance of being among the five chosen to compete for best international film.
.
Actors Riz Ahmed (
The Sound of Metal
) and Allison Williams (the recent
M3GAN
,
Girls
) will be in charge of announcing the nominations in the 23 categories.
They will do it from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles, and they can be seen live and direct throughout the world.
It will be from 10.30, Argentina time.
The reading of the nominations for the 95th edition of the Oscars can be seen online through YouTube on the ABC News channel.
You can also follow the nominations live on the Hollywood Academy's Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter accounts.
Ricardo Darín and Santiago Miter pose in the press room with the Golden Globe for the best foreign language film for "Argentina, 1985".
AP Photo
The film about the trial of the military Juntas was sent by the Argentine Film Academy.
Of the 92 titles sent by as many countries, a pre-selection was made, the famous short list, of fifteen films.
And Argentina, 1985 passed that cut.
If it reaches the nomination and is one of the five that will compete for the Hollywood Academy Award on Sunday, March 12, it will be the eighth Argentine production to be a candidate in the category.
Our country won the award twice, on March 24, 1986, exactly 10 years after the coup that overthrew María Estela Martínez de Perón, when she won
The Official History
, by Luis Puenzo.
And, closer in time, in 2010 it was
El secreto de sus ojos
, by Juan José Campanella.
Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, protagonists of "The spirits of the island": the actors and the film sound like candidates.
Disney photo
Other films that reached the nomination, but did not win the golden statuette, which is 34 centimeters high and weighs 3.85 kilograms, were
La trugua
, by Sergio Renán, in the 1975 edition;
Camila
, by María Luisa Bemberg, in 1985;
Tango
, by the Spanish Carlos Saura, in 1999;
The Bride's Son
, by Juan José Campanella, in 2002;
and the last candidate so far was
Wild Tales
, by Damián Szifron, in 2015.
When is the delivery
For its part, the 2023 Oscar Awards gala will be held next Sunday, March 12.
It is already known who will be the presenter: it will be the comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who has already done it on other occasions, and has also become internationally popular thanks to his television program
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
on the ABC network.
Jimmy Kimmel hosting the Oscars on March 14, 2018. AP Photo
There are a total of 23 awards in competition, and in addition to the one that mainly interests us, the one for best film is the one that attracts the most attention among moviegoers.
It's hard not for
The Fabelmans
, a film with autobiographical overtones by Steven Spielberg,
The Spirits of the Island
, by Martin McDonagh, with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, as two friends who on an island in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century grow apart : the second one can't tolerate how boring the first one is anymore, and
Everything everywhere at the same time
, by “the Daniels”, Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan.
Also, Todd Field's
Tár
, for which Cate Blanchett will most likely win her fourth Oscar, for her composition of a troubled conductor.
look also
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