The Spanish costume designer has earned his first Academy Award nomination in the Best Costume Design category for his impressive work in Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper‘s film adaptation of the Broadway musical Les Misérables.
Meanwhile, Chilean cinematographer Claudio Miranda has picked up his second Oscar nomination for his work Ang Lee’s adventure drama Life of Pi. He’d previously earned a nod for 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Pablo Larraín earned his firstAcademy Awardnomination in the Best Foreign Language Film categoryfor directingthe Spanish-language drama No, starring Gael García Bernal as an in-demand advertising executive who develops a campaign that helps overthrow Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime.
Mexican sound mixer José Antonio García, who earned critical acclaim for his sound mixing Alejandro González Iñárritu’sBabel, earned his first Academy Award nomination in the Best Sound Mixing category for his work on Ben Affleck’s Argo.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nominated Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching for Sugar Man – the critically acclaimed film which tells the story of Mexican-American singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez – in the Best Documentary Film category.
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The 85th Academy Awards will be broadcast live on February 24 on ABC.
Sony Pictures Classics has released a subtitled trailer for Pablo Larraín‘s critically acclaimed film No…
The 36-year-old Chilean director’s film, which stars Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, tells the based-on-facts story of an advertising executive who engineered a marketing campaign that toppled Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in a 1988 referendum.
Based on a true story, No stars Bernalas a brash young Chilean advertising executive who spearheads a campaign that helps topple Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime
Also from Chile, Andres Wood’s Violeta Went to Heaven came in second in the same competition, and also won Best Art Direction, while the 3rd Choral Award went to Claudio Assis’ Rat Fever from Brazil.
The Jury granted a Special Prize for Carlos Sorin’s Fishing Days (Argentina) and a Special Mention for Brazil/France co-production Once Upon a Time Was I, Verônica, directed by Marcelo Gomes
The fest’s First Film competition was topped by William Vega’s La Sirga (Colombia), followed by Alejandro Fadel’s The Wild Ones (Argentina) which also picked the Choral Award for Best Artistic Contribution. The 3rd Choral prize went to Fernando Guzzoni’s Dog Flesh (Chile)
Local documentary El evangelio según Ramiro by Juan Carlos Calahorra picked the 1st Choral in the Documentary competition, while Maria Veronica Ramirez’s Anima Buenos Aires topped the Animation category.
The FIPRESCI Award went to Nicolas Pereda’s Greatest Hits (Mexico)
Here’s the complete list of awards:
FICTION
Short Films
Jury Mention: Detras del espejo – Julio O. Ramos (Peru)
Choral Award to Best Short Film: Los anfitriones – Miguel Angel Moulet (Cuba)
Feature Length Films
First Choral Award: No – Pablo Larrain (Chile, USA, Mexico)
Second Choral Award: Violeta Went to Heaven – Andres Wood (Chile, Argentina, Brazil)
Third Choral Award: Rat Fever – Claudio Assis (Brazil)
Special Jury Prize: Fishing Days – Carlos Sorin (Argentina)
Jury Mention: Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica – Marcelo Gomes (Brazil, France)
Best Direction: Michel Franco – After Lucia (Mexico)
Best Script: Eduardo del Llano and Daniel Díaz Torres – La película de Ana (Cuba)
Best Actor: Andres Crespo – Pescador (Ecuador, Colombia)
Best Actress: Laura de la Uz – La película de Ana (Cuba)
Best Editing: Pablo Trapero and Nacho Ruiz Capillas – White Elephant (Argentina, Spain, France)
Best Original Score: Jacobo Lieberman, Leonardo Heiblum – The Delay (Uruguay, Mexico)
Best Soundtrack: Gilles Laurent – Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico, France, Germany, The Netherlands)
Best Cinematography: Alexis Zabe – Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico, France, Germany, The Netherlands)
Best Art Direction: Rodrigo Bazaes – Violeta Went to Heaven (Chile, Argentina, Brazil)
Best Film about Latin America by a non-Latin American filmmaker: Here and There – Antonio Mendez Esparza (USA, Spain, Mexico)
FIRST FILMS
First Choral Award: La Sirga – William Vega (Colombia, France, Mexico)
Second Choral Award: The Wild Ones – Alejandro Fadel (Argentina)
Third Choral Award: Dog Flesh – Fernando Guzzoni (Chile)
Mention: El limpiador – Adrian Saba (Peru)
Choral Award to the Best Artistic Contribution: The Wild Ones – Alejandro Fadel (Argentina)
ANIMATED FILMS
First Choral Award: Anima Buenos Aires – Maria Veronica Ramirez (Argentina)
Second Choral Award: Luminaris – Juan Pablo Zaramella (Argentina)
Third Choral Award: Fat Bald Short Man – Carlos Osuna (Colombia, France)
Special Jury Prize: Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe – Walter Tournier (Uruguay, Argentina, Chile)
Mention: La luna en el jardin – Adanoe Lima and Yemelí Cruz (Cuba)
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
First Choral Award: El evangelio segun Ramiro – Juan Carlos Calahorra (Cuba)
Second Choral Award: Con mi corazon en Yambo – Fernanda Restrepo (Ecuador)
Third Choral Award: Cuentos sobre el futuro – Patricia Bustos (Chile)
Best Film about Latin America by a non-Latin American filmmaker: Escenas previas – Aleksandra Maciuszek (Cuba, Poland)
Special Prize: De agua dulce – Damian Sainz (Cuba)
The 33-year-old Mexican actor will star opposite I Am Legend’s Alice Braga inThe Ardor, a modern-day Western set in the Amazon.
Directed by Argentine helmer Pablo Fendrik, centers on a lone Amazon shaman (Garcia Bernal) who stumbles across a tobacco farmer and his stunning daughter (Braga) in the jungle. When a roving band of deforesters attack the farm, killing the farmer and taking his daughter hostage, Garcia Bernal’s character decides to exact revenge.
The feature, Fendrik’s follow-up to Blood Appears, a highlight of Cannes Critics Week in 2008, is described as a tale of survival and revenge set in in the Amazon jungle.
It looks like Gael Garcia Bernal could soon be living a buyer’s market…
The 33-year-old Mexican actor is currently in talks to star opposite Matthew McConaughey inThe Dallas Buyer’s Club, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The dramatic film from director Jean-Marc Vallee (The Young Victoria) had been shopped around at the Cannes Film Festival as a McConaughey-Hilary Swank vehicle, but Swank has since dropped out.
Inspired by true events, the plot centers on Ron Woodroof (McConaughey), a Texas electrician diagnosed with AIDS who began smuggling alternative drugs into the U.S. to help himself and other AIDS patients. His actions put him on a collision course with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was bent on keeping the drugs out of the country.
In a show-stopping role, Garcia Bernal will portray an effeminate member of the club, a fellow AIDS patient who meets Woodroof in the hospital.
The film’s producers are looking to begin shooting the film in New Orleans this November.
Garcia Bernal, who most recently appeared in , is currently drawing awards-season buzz for his star turn in Sony Pictures Classics‘ No, about an ad executive who comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile’s 1988 referendum. The film will be Chile’s official entry for the foreign-language Oscar.
Pablo Larraín’s latest screen effort could be considered one of the best received films at the Cannes Film Festival with raves from critics… And, now he’s reaping his own rewards.
The 35-year-old Chilean director/screenwriter’s latest film No took top honors at the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. The historical drama claimed the Art Cinema Award on Friday.
Based on a true story, No stars 33-year-old Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal as a brash young Chilean advertising executive who spearheads a campaign that helps topple Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime.
“This movie is a masterfully engaging and energetic drama about politics and power, a tonic for the brain that is also a major entertainment,” says Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the North American rights to the film following its well-received screening. “No establishes Pablo Larraín as a major international director and Gael Garcia Bernal gives his finest performance.”
Other winners in this year’s Directors’ Fortnight section include Merzak Allouache‘s El taaib(The Repentant) and Noemie Lvovsky‘s Camille redouble(Camille Rewinds). Also on Friday, The Repentant was honored with the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film running in Cannes’ official selection.
Directors’ Fortnight opened with Michel Gondry‘s The We and the I and also featured Ben Wheatley‘s Sightseers and Rodney Ascher’s Room 237.
