Alberto Fernández congratulated the team led by Santiago Miter despite not being able to bring the third Oscar to the country. The favorite "All Quiet Front" won Best International Film and several other awards.
The illusion of "Argentina, 1985" ended at the 2023 Oscars as it could not beat the German film All Quiet Front in the Best Foreign Film category. As expected, since the war film was also nominated for best film, the film directed by Santiago Miter was left with the desire to bring the third Oscar for national cinema.
In addition to the film starring Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani, the Teutonic war drama directed by Edward Berger also beat out EO (Poland), The Quiet Girl (Ireland), and Close (Belgium), who were the other nominees.
The award was announced by Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, who had previously voted in support of the film directed by Santiago Mitre.
In the case of Hayek, a few days ago he published a photograph on his social networks together with Victoria Alonso (producer of the tape) and Ricardo Darín, in which he expressed: "I want to wish good luck to the incredible film Argentina, 1985, which is the only Latin American film nominated this year for Best International Feature Film."
While Banderas, hours before the start of the event, on the red carpet of this edition, was interviewed by Axel Kuschevatzky -producer from Argentina, 1985- and Lety Sahagún. In it, he was consulted about the film and assured: "They are going to win the Oscar."
"All quiet on the front" ended the Argentine dream
"All Quiet on the Front" is a German Netflix production directed by Edward Berger and set in World War I, which recounts the life of soldiers in the trenches.
The film had already swept the BAFTAs last month, where it was crowned Best Film of the Year while garnering six other awards for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score.
"Thank you very much, this means a lot to us," said his filmmaker upon receiving the statuette. And in his speech, he thanked all the people who were behind the production.
Up to that point, "All Quiet Front" had also won three other Oscars: Cinematography, Production Design, and Best Original Score.
The awards that "Argentina, 1985" achieved
For its part, The tape of Santiago Miter, starring Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani, which portrays the task of prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo at the head of the Trial of the Juntas after the last civil-military dictatorship, which enables us to claim our rights through the courts.
"Argentina 1985" won the Fipresci Critics Award at the Venice Festival, and the audience award in San Sebastián, while it garnered mostly positive reviews after its premiere in the United States.
At the beginning of January, he managed to beat the great cuckoo "All Quiet on the Front" and became the third Argentine film to win the Golden Globe.
On February 12, the Argentine film won the Goya Award granted by the Spanish Film Academy for the Best Ibero-American Film, a recognition in which Argentina maintains a historical predominance: of the 37 statuettes awarded between 1987 and 2023, 19 crossed the Atlantic.
it received acclaim at festivals in Zurich, San Sebastián, London, and Havana and was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award.
Alberto Fernández congratulated "Argentina, 1985" Despite the defeat
From his Twitter account, President Alberto Fernández congratulated the protagonists despite not winning the Oscar: "I want to congratulate each person who was part of the wonderful film #Argentina1985. #Oscars Despite not having won this recognition, let's celebrate the enormous pride that Argentine cinema represents us in front of the world, for democracy and with infinite talent."
"This year Argentina celebrates 40 years of uninterrupted democracy. Our commitment to Memory, Truth, and Justice remains intact, violence must disappear and the popular will must exist forever," he added.
