Oscar 2023: with Argentina 1985 on the list, at what time, how and where to see the nominations

Almost nothing is missing anymore. Today, Tuesday, January 24, is the day on which the announcement of the nominations for the Oscar, the Hollywood Academy Award, and Argentina, 1985 appears with probabilities of being among the five chosen to compete in best international film.

Actors Riz Ahmed (the sound of metal) and Allison Williams (the recent M3GAN, Girls) will be in charge of announcing the nominations in the 23 categories. They will do it from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles, and they can be seen live and direct throughout the world.

It will be from 10.30, Argentina time. The reading of the nominations for the 95th edition of the Oscars can be seen online through YouTube on the ABC News channel. You can also follow the nominations live on the Hollywood Academy’s Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter accounts.

The film about the trial of the military Juntas was sent by the Argentine Film Academy. Of the 92 titles sent by as many countries, a pre-selection was made, the famous short list, of fifteen films. And Argentina, 1985 passed that cut.

If it reaches the nomination and is one of the five that will compete for the Hollywood Academy Award on Sunday, March 12, it will be the eighth Argentine production to be a candidate in the category. Our country won the award twice, on March 24, 1986, exactly 10 years after the coup that overthrew María Estela Martínez de Perón, when it won The official storyby Luis Puenzo.

And, closer in time, in 2010 it was The Secret in Their Eyesby Juan José Campanella.

Other films that made it to the nomination but did not win the golden statuette, which is 34 centimeters tall and weighs 3.85 kilograms, were Truceby Sergio Renán, in the 1975 edition; Camilaby María Luisa Bemberg, in 1985; Tangoby Spanish Carlos Saura, in 1999; The son of the bride, by Juan José Campanella, in 2002; and the last candidate so far was wild talesby Damián Szifron, in 2015.

When is the delivery

For its part, the 2023 Oscar Awards gala will be held next Sunday, March 12. It is already known who will be the presenter: it will be the comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who has already done it on other occasions, and has also become internationally popular thanks to his television program Jimmy Kimmel Live! on the ABC network.

There are a total of 23 awards in competition, and in addition to the one that mainly interests us, the one for best film is the one that attracts the most attention among moviegoers.

It is difficult that they are not as candidates The Fabelmansa film with autobiographical overtones by Steven Spielberg, the spirits of the islandby Martin McDonagh, with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, as two friends who grow apart on an Irish island at the beginning of the 20th century: the second can no longer tolerate how boring the first is, and Everything everywhere at the same timefrom “the Daniels”, Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan.

Too, tarby Todd Field, for which Cate Blanchett will most likely win her fourth Oscar, for her composition of a troubled conductor.

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