The film picked up the critics prize at Venice and the audience award at San Sebastian.
Argentina has submitted Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985 as its entry for the best international feature category for the 2023 Academy Awards (March 12).
‘Argentina, 1985’: Venice Review
The Amazon Original title is based on the real events of Argentina’s 1980s ‘Dirty War’ and follows a group of lawyers who risk everything to take on the heads of the country’s military dictatorship. Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani lead the cast.
Argentina, 1985 was selected out 60 other titles by a committee of 250 members.
The film is a...
Argentina has submitted Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985 as its entry for the best international feature category for the 2023 Academy Awards (March 12).
‘Argentina, 1985’: Venice Review
The Amazon Original title is based on the real events of Argentina’s 1980s ‘Dirty War’ and follows a group of lawyers who risk everything to take on the heads of the country’s military dictatorship. Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani lead the cast.
Argentina, 1985 was selected out 60 other titles by a committee of 250 members.
The film is a...
- 9/27/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Argentina has submitted Santiago Mitre’s political drama Argentina, 1985 to the Best International Film Oscar race.
The drama, which debuted in Competition in Venice, winning the Fipresci prize, is inspired by real-life Argentinian lawyers Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo.
Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners
The David and Goliath tale follows how the pair and their young legal team daringly prosecuted members of the former military junta to bring justice to the victims of their deadly regime. Under their rule from 1976 to 1983, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared.
Award-winning actor Ricardo Darin plays Strassera alongside Peter Lanzani as Ocampo with other cast members including
Mitre wrote the screenplay with Mariano Llinás. Producers are Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi-Campbell, Darín, Mitre, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín and Victoria Alonso.
Argentina has garnered seven nominations to date for Sergio Renán’s The Truce (1974), Maria Luisa Bemberg’s Camila (1984), Luis Puenzo’s The Official...
The drama, which debuted in Competition in Venice, winning the Fipresci prize, is inspired by real-life Argentinian lawyers Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo.
Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners
The David and Goliath tale follows how the pair and their young legal team daringly prosecuted members of the former military junta to bring justice to the victims of their deadly regime. Under their rule from 1976 to 1983, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared.
Award-winning actor Ricardo Darin plays Strassera alongside Peter Lanzani as Ocampo with other cast members including
Mitre wrote the screenplay with Mariano Llinás. Producers are Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi-Campbell, Darín, Mitre, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín and Victoria Alonso.
Argentina has garnered seven nominations to date for Sergio Renán’s The Truce (1974), Maria Luisa Bemberg’s Camila (1984), Luis Puenzo’s The Official...
- 9/27/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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