Argentina 1985, the Argentine film by Santiago Miter starring his compatriot Ricardo Darín about the trial against those responsible for the dictatorship in his country, started as a great favorite, with 14 nominations, for the X Platino Awards for Ibero-American cinema, to be held in Madrid next April 22.
The finalists for these awards promoted by EGEDA, a copyright entity in America and Spain, together with the Ibero-American federation of producers FIPCA, were unveiled this Thursday in Madrid in an act with the actors Rubén Cortada, from Cuba, and Amaia Salamanca, Cristina Castaño, Nerea Barros and Alfonso Bassave, from Spain.
They are followed, all of them with six nominations, by the Spanish As bestas, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and Cinco lobitos, by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa; the Mexican Bardo, a false chronicle of a few truths, by Alejandro González Iñárritu; and the Colombian series Noticia de un kidnapping, by Andrés Wood and Rodrigo García.
Along with As bestas, Argentina 1985 and Bardo, the quartet of candidates for best Ibero-American film is closed by Alcarrás, by Carla Simón, and they are also competing in the category of best director.
Mitre's work, which will also fight next Sunday for the Oscar for best international film, has five of its actors nominated for Platinum: Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani aspire for best leading actor, Carlos Portaluppi and Norman Briski for actor Supporting Award and Alejandra Flechner for Best Supporting Actress.
Along with Darín and Lanzani, the Mexican Daniel Giménez Cacho, for Iñárritu's film, and the Spanish Luis Tosar, for On the Margins, have been nominated.
In the female category, there are five finalists: the Chilean Aline Küppenheim for 1976 and Antonia Zegers for El punishment, the Spanish Laia Costa for Cinco lobitos and Laura Galán for Cerdita, and the Dominican Magnolia Núñez for Carajita.
The Spanish Luis Zahera for As bestas and Ramón Barea for Cinco lobitos complete the list of candidates for best supporting actor and, in the female part, along with Flechner are the Spanish Carmen Machi for Cerdita, Penélope Cruz for On the margins and Susi Sánchez by Five wolves.
The favorite for best miniseries or television series is the Colombian Noticia de un secuestro, by Andrés Wood and Rodrigo García, who have also been nominated as best series creators.
Cristina Umaña and Juan Pablo Raba are finalists for best leading actress and actor, and Majida Issa and Rodrigo Celis in the supporting categories, all of them Colombians.
The other finalist series are the Argentine series El encargado, by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat; Iosi, the repentant spy, by Daniel Burman; and Santa Evita, by Rodrigo García and Alejandro Maci.
In the category of best creator, together with Burman, the Wood-García tandem and Cohn-Duprat, the fourth finalist is Leonardo Padrón for the Colombian production "Pálpito".
The Chilean Claudia Di Girolamo ("42 days in the dark"), the Argentine Natalia Oreiro ("Santa Evita") and the Mexican Paulina Gaitán ("Belascoarán") will compete with Umaña for the award for best leading actress.
Among them, in addition to Raba, Giménez Cacho repeats, now for the series "A strange enemy. T2", together with the Argentine Guillermo Francella ("El encargado") and the Argentine-Spanish Juan Diego Botto for "I don't like driving", Borja Cobeaga's series for which the Spaniards Leonor Watling and David Lorente have also been finalists, as supporting actors.
This year the best Ibero-American fictional comedy is being introduced as a new prize, to which Bardo, the Spanish production Official Competition, directed by the Argentines Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, the Chilean Desconectados, by Diego Rougier, and the Argentinean Granizo, by Marcos, compete. Carnivale.
The Spanish Cinco lobitos is a finalist for best first film together with the Chilean 1976, by Manuela Martelli; the Nicaraguan La hija de todas las rabies, by Laura Baumeister; the Colombian La pack, by Andrés Ramírez Pulido; and the Bolivian Utama, by Alejandro Loayza Grisi.
In best documentary film, the candidates are the Uruguayan Bosco, by Alicia Cano Menoni; the Paraguayan "Eami", by Paz Encina; the Cuban-Spanish co-production "El caso Padilla", by Pavel Giroud; the Guatemalan "El silencio del topo", by Anaïs Taracena; and the Chilean "My imaginary country", by Patricio Guzmán.
The nominations are distributed among twelve countries and Spain obtains 34 percent of the film nominations, followed by Argentina, with 24, and Chile and Mexico, both with 10.
