The drama, charting the life of an elderly couple on Bolivia’s stunningly shot Altiplano, won original score (Sergio Prudencio) and cinematography (Uruguay’s Barbara Álvarez, “25 Watts,” “Whisky”). In other Awards highlights, Spain’s Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez repeated their Goya plaudits taking best film actress and supporting actress as daughter and mother in Spain’s “Lullaby,” an iconic title in Spain’s new cinema of highly grounded dramas speaking, however, about universal issues.Īs Bolivian filmmakers continue to win awards around the world, Saturday’s Platino Awards also marked the first time that a Bolivian movie – Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s “ Utama,” a 2022 World Cinema Grand Jury Prize – took silverware at the Platinos. We can’t allow violence to be the innate solution in any part of the world,” said Infinity Hill’s, Axel Kuschevatzky, a producer of “Argentina, 1985.” “1976” director Manuela Martelli (center) being congratulated by her team Manuel Fiestas Moreno “Thank you to the thousands and thousands of Colombians who, silently, without any show, try to make peace and a country, despite all the obvious difficulties,” said Umaña, who in “News of a Kidnapping” plays the real-life Maruja Pachón, kidnapped in 1990 by Colombian cartel members in an effort to halt jailed drug runners’ extradition to the U.S. It may or may not be a coincidence that “Argentina, 1985,” “News” and “The Beasts,” whose awards included best director, talk about how individuals or institutions – the Colombian senator husband of an abduction victim in “News,” Darin’s crusading public prosecutor in “Argentina, 1985,” a French couple in deep Galicia in “The Beasts” – confront violence, whether endemic drug gang coercion in “News,” the institutionalised torture and murder under Argentina’s Junta, or authoritarian machismo in “The Beasts.” Latido Films, the Madrid-based sales agent, also made a strong showing at the Platinos, taking a total six awards, split between an acting double for “Lullaby” and four for Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” which already swept Spain’s Goya Awards and scored a French Cesar for best foreign film. Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios and Chile’s Invercine & Wood produced. Egeda President Enrique Cerezo presents an Honorary Platino to Benicio del Toro Courtesy of PlatinoAwards/Enrique Cidonchaĭel Toro was received with a standing ovation by an audience made up of some of the best actors in Spain, who hung on his every word.ĭirected by Mitre, who broke out to attention with 2011 debut “The Student,” then conquered Cannes’ Critics’ Week with 2015’s “Paulina,” the Academy Award-nominated “Argentina, 1985” – produced by Amazon Studios, Infinity Hill, Mitre’s label Unión de los Rios and star Ricardo Darín’s Kenya Films – swept best picture, screenplay (Mitre, Mariano Llinás) and lead actor (Darín), among five Platino Awards.Ĭommissioned by Prime Video in 2020, in the same financing round that included “Iosi, the Repentant Spy,” which won a best supporting actor Platino for Alejandro Awada on Saturday, “News of a Kidnapping” scooped best series, creators (Wood, García), lead series actress (Cristina Umaña) and supporting actress (Majida Issa).
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