Argentina Wins 'Best Foreign Film' Oscar

via MTV3’s

So, we all know who the big winners were at last night’s Oscars, and quite frankly we’re not too familiar with the movies that won, or even a lot of the ones that were nominated.  Okay, eso es mentira.  We loved ‘Avatar’ and a couple of the other nominees (‘Up In The Air’ and ‘Precious’), but it looks like we’ll have to add ‘The Blind Side’ and ‘The Hurt Locker’ to the ol’ Netflix…

We were happy to see, though, that there were not one but TWO películas de Latino America nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category este año!  ‘El Secreto De Sus Ojos,’ from Argentina, took home the prestigious award, beating out films from Peru, Israel, France and Germany.  Now that’s one that’s definitely going on Netflix!  La película, which is set in Buenos Aires, and stars Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil, tells the story of an unsolved murder mystery interspersed con una historia de amor.

Director Juan José Campanella accepted his golden trophy at last night’s ceremony with a hilariously humble observation:

It is on behalf of a crew and cast that compromise mostly of people that I love and that are very close to my heart that I want to thank the Academy for not considering Na’vi a foreign language, first of all.

The director also spoke with The Wall Street Journal, to which he spoke about the impact of an Argentinean movie winning an Oscar:

For an Argentine movie, the bolster is incomparable. For the country’s film making in general, I don’t know if one prize means too much. But the sum of an Oscar, plus the recurring presence of various movies in important film festivals around the world, starts creating an interest to see films from our country. It’s not an isolated movie, but an entire cinematography that creates expectations.

Felicidades! Watch his Oscar “Thank You” speech here!

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