The Golden Globes They forgot about him. But the awards Oscar 2024 No. ‘The Snow Society‘, of JA Bayonahas made the cut among the five finalists in the category of Best International Film of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of hollywood. Bayona’s film was among the fifteen finalists also in the film categories. best special effects, best original music and best makeup and hair. Of them, he has taken best makeup and hair for the work of Ana López-Puigcerver and David Martí.

Thus, the story based on survivors’ story of the Los Andes air tragedy – and which has included the participation of some of them -, will be one of the protagonists of the gala to be held at the Dolby Theater from Los Angeles next March 11, 2024at the same time that it also has pending BAFTA nomination. It has cost the team and the director. The latter was clear since he read Pablo Vieci’s book, a work that collects the testimonies of survivors of the plane crash that hit the October 13, 1972 with the Andean mountain range and that claimed twelve victims, that the story deserved to be told from the protagonism of those who did not manage to survive. Hence the voice in off be that of the last passenger to die in the Andes, Numa Turcatti. Enzo Vogrincic, the actor who plays him, was able to meet the deceased 25-year-old thanks to the anecdotes his family told him. The actor came to visit the family home where the young man lived in Montevideo.

Beyond the work of documentation and preparation of charactersthe team of ‘The Snow Society’ had to see and wish when it came to recreating dangerous situations and extreme conditions that the survivors of the tragedy faced, the director confessed on social networks. One of them was the avalanche, a scene in which They used snow made of powder and light rubber suitcases. The final touch was the visual effects team who added additional “avalanche” effects, beyond modifying the Sierra Nevada environment to capture that of the Andes. In fact, the filming location caused Netflix had to comment on the accusations from some social media users who blamed them for having abandoned plane wreckage in the mountain.

Almodóvar’s short film

Who was also awaiting the decision of the Academyof Cinematographic Arts and Sciences Hollywood era Almodovar. His short film ‘Strange Way of Life’ received support from academics last December. However, this Tuesday he was left out of the final. The aforementioned short film was released last May by the hand of Peter Pascal and Ethan Hawke. Jason Fernández, José Condessa, George Steane, Manu Ríos, Pedro Casablanc and Sara Sálamo are other names that participate in the story of two former friends who worked as gunfightersas can be seen in the trailer.

The preview features the reunion of Hawke and Pascal’s characters, going from a moment in which the first is about to kiss the second on the neck to another in which he points a gun at him after his lover reproaches him “you didn’t love me, or anyone!”. “Don’t say that again!” Hawke’s character responds as he points his revolver at him. At the end of the trailer, the latter lies sick in bed while he is cared for by the character played by Pascal. “Years ago you asked me what two men could do living together on a ranch. I’ll answer you now,” he explains.

“A man rides across the desert to Bitter Creek on horseback. He comes to visit Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who rides to meet him, worked together as hired gunmen. Silva comes with the pretext of meet your friend again of youth, and in fact they celebrate their meeting, but the next morning Sheriff Jake tells him that the reason for his trip is not the memory of their old friendship…”, reads the official synopsis of the short that was presented at the Cannes festival.