All is not lost: Mexicans Michelle Couttolenc, Jaime Baksht and Carlos Cortés Navarrete were nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound for their work in El Sonido del Metal, the Hollywood Academy announced.
These three talents are among the few Latin American names to appear in this year’s categories, after the Mexican film Ya No Soy Aqui, the Guatemalan film La Llorona and the Chilean El Agent Topo were excluded from the headings. more importantly, EFE reported.
Instead, the productions looking to win the Best International Film award are Another Round (Denmark), Better Days (Hong Kong), Collective (Romania), The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia) and Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
However, of the three Latin films mentioned earlier, only The Topo Agent could slip into another category, that of Best Documentary.
Maite Alberdi’s film will face off against Collective, Crip Camp, Lo Que el Pulpo Me Enseñado and Time in this section.
Since premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020, Chilean film has traveled the world, garnered applause and won awards at competitions such as the San Sebastian Festival.
The documentary tells the story of Sergio, an eighty-year-old tragicomic who works as a spy in a nursing home to discover possible abuse. It is a co-production between Chile, Spain, the Netherlands, the United States and Germany.
The Mexican film I’m No Longer Here, which premiered on Netflix last year, was in turn one of the biggest sensations of international cinema during the pandemic.
Fernando Frías’s film tells the story of a young man named Ulises who is part of the Los Terkos band, which is immersed in the Kolombia music subculture in the city of Monterrey.
And while it won ten awards at the Ariel Awards, including Best Picture, it failed to win over Hollywood Academy voters, meaning there will be no Mexican names for a year after Guillermo’s triumphs. del Toro., Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Finally, La Llorona, an astonishing glimpse of magical terror on the Mayan genocide in Guatemala, starring María Mercedes Coroy, a Golden Globes nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, was an award that ultimately won the American Minari .
The pandemic Oscars were postponed for two months to avoid the impact of the coronavirus, and will be held on April 25 (February 28 was the original date).
The Academy announced today that the gala, the format of which remains a mystery due to the limitations of Covid-19, will be held from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, the usual venue for the Oscars, and from Union Station, the central station of the Californian city. and a novelty this time.