Argentina, 1985the multi-award-winning Argentine film that failed to receive an Oscar in March won the Platinum awards of the Ibero-American audiovisual industry, which were delivered in Madrid this Saturday.
The feature film directed by Santiago Miter about the trial of the military commanders of the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-83), won the prize for best Ibero-American fiction film of the year in this tenth edition of the Platinum Awards.
In addition, the film won four more trophies for best screenplay, art direction, value film award and best actor, an honor that fell to Richard Darin.
After receiving the trophy at the IFEMA conference center in the Spanish capital, Darín presented the award “to the incredible humanity of a man named Julio César Strassera”, in reference to the prosecutor who gives life in the film.
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These awards are added to the many others won by this film, which delves into the investigation of the prosecutor Strassera (Darín) and his team of the horror that lived in the South American country during the dictatorship.
He previously won the Golden Globe for the best foreign language film and the Goya for the best Latin American film.
In March, however, he was without the Oscar for best international film when he fell for the German No news at the front.
The other big winner of the evening was the Spanish film Ace beastsa rural drama directed by Madrid Rodrigo Sorogoyenwho won the awards for best director, supporting actor (Luis Zahera), sound and editing.
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At the gala, presented by the Colombian Carolina Gaitanthe Mexican Omar Chaparro and the Spaniards peace vegathe Colombian series News of a kidnapping dominated the prices of the television sections.
The production is inspired by the book of the same name Gabriel Garcia Marqueza story about the fight against drug cartels in the 1990s, won the statuette for the best Ibero-American television series of the year.
The makers, the Chilean Andrew Wood and the Colombian Rodrigo Garcia, son of Garcia Marquez, and a third platinum for this production was awarded to the lead actor, the Colombian actress Cristina Umana.
The honorary platinum of this edition was collected by the Puerto Rican Benicio, the bull, who said in his speech that it was “an honor” to be honored in Madrid, “the capital of the Spanish world.”
Del Toro confirmed that “while things have changed a little bit” in Hollywood, “there’s still this problem today” that the roles Latino actors get often show stereotypes.
In any case, the actor said that when he had to play these types of characters, he always sought his “humanity and complexity” when representing them.
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This year, productions from twelve countries competed in the different sections: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
The Platinos, which have so far had galas in Spain, Panama, Mexico and Uruguay, are promoted by the Spanish Audiovisual Producers Rights Management Entity (EGEDA), the Ibero-American Federation of Film and Audiovisual Producers (FIPCA) and the Academies and Ibero-American Film Institutes.
The awards, first presented in 2014, take place alternately in Latin America and Spain.
Source: Eluniverso
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