Oscar D-Day is over.
We are going to reconstruct the activity of the Argentines, and what was not seen on television.
The delegation from
Argentina, 1985
that was seated in the seats of the Dolby Theater was made up of the director,
Santiago Miter
and his partner, Dolores Fonzi;
Ricardo Darín
and his wife, Florencia Bas;
Peter Lanzani, and the producers Victoria Alonso, Axel Kuschevatzky, Agustina Llambi Campbell, Federico Posternak, Santiago Carabante and Cindy Teperman.
And Javiera Balmaceda, sister of the actor Pedro Pascal, Chilean like him, and in charge of the original content of the streaming platform for Amazon in Latin America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand also joined.
The truth is that they arrived so early - most of them left West Hollywood, anticipating traffic complications, due to the cuts scheduled in Hollywood - that they had to wait to be able to enter the Dolby.
We already told yesterday that, since there were so many in the delegation, the tickets left, at the same time, getting little by little, and they were not all seated in the same row, nor 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
All Quiet Front
.
If you pay attention to the moment in which Edward Berger gets up, he begins to greet and goes to 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 that it was a party to be at the ceremony.
-Impressive, I mean, the same thing we knew before entering, it is a re-experience, the film has gone a long way and is representing our country.
For us it is a huge joy.
-Is there any feeling that went through your head, at the moment the award for the German film was announced? What happened to you?
-Well, this is a bit of an adrenaline rush, isn't it?
But it's like when you go out to a theater performance, and if none of that happens to you, there's no point in doing it.
Then you win, then you lose.
I have had a physical education teacher tell me “you won, but just as you won, you lost.
And you lost, but just as you lost, you won."
They are experiences.
The moral is to make another movie to try to follow the same path and get there and win the Oscar.
-What do you take with you from this trip in particular, 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.
Having made 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 came out on stage to announce the award for best international film, it seemed that it could happen...
-I don't know, the die was cast a long time ago, and everything ends when they read the title on the envelope.
And ours didn't come out, heh.
The Vanity Fair Party
After the ceremony ends, the nominees and those attending the ceremony are invited to the Governors Ball, the party that the Hollywood Academy throws to honor the winners.
It is not "mandatory" to go, that is, whoever does not take a statuette may not attend.
But there are few who do not come across the room, where the winners, too, while they drink and eat -in some cases, they went more than 5 hours without eating- wait for their name to be engraved on the base of the statuette gold-plated, weighing more than 3 kilograms.
And then THE party is the
Vanity Fair
party .
It was on Santa Monica Boulevard, around the corner, almost, from the Tatel restaurant, where the Argentina after party was held, 1985, but in Beverly Hills.
With so many streets closed to traffic, getting from downtown Hollywood to Beverly Hills isn't easy.
Nobody complained.
There, many stars who were at Dolby appeared, but with other looks and dresses.
The actresses, like Angela Bassett, who perhaps because she imagined that she would win the Oscar for best supporting actress for
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
, wore a dress other than the blue of the ceremony.
They say that parties in public places after 2 AM cannot sell alcoholic beverages.
Something that in private parties, obviously, does not have to have a limit.
No limit.
Like the one from
Vanity Fair
, for which you have to have a special accreditation, or name bearing, as they say.
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