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1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards
The 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards ceremony was held in Buenos Aires on 10 January 1943 to honour the best films and contributors to Argentine cinema in 1942. This was the first time the awards had been presented. Awards given *Best Film (Mejor Película): ''The Gaucho War'' (''La guerra gaucha'') *Best Director (Mejor Director): Lucas Demare for ''The Gaucho War'' * Best Actor (Mejor Actor): Arturo García Buhr for ''The Kids Grow Up'' (''Los chicos crecen'') *Best Actress (Mejor Actriz): Amelia Bence for ''The Third Kiss'' (''El tercer beso'') *Best Original Screenplay (Mejor Guión Original): Hugo Mac Dougall for '' Malambo'' * Best Adapted Screenplay (Mejor Guión Adaptado): Ulises Petit de Murat and Homero Manzi for ''The Gaucho War'' *Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera): John Ford's ''How Green Was My Valley'' (1941) *Special Prize (Premio especial): Dante Quinterno for his short animated colour film ''Upa en apuros'' References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine Film Critics Association
The Argentine Film Critics Association ( es, Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina) is an organization of Argentine-based journalists and correspondents. The association presents the ''Silver Condor Awards'' (''Premios Cóndor de Plata'') honoring achievements in Argentine cinema. The awards are considered Argentina's equivalent of the Academy Awards. The association was organized on July 10, 1942, and the annual awards have been given since 1943, with breaks in between.IMDb film data base, awards section. The Argentine Film Critics Association is a member of the International Federation of Film Critics, also known as FIPRESCI. Silver Condor The Silver Condor ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Mac Dougall
Hugo Mac Dougall, born Hugo Mascías (9 December 1901 – 15 May 1976 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine writer, screenwriter, and journalist. At the 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Mac Dougall won the Silver Condor Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work '' Malambo'' (1942). He won it again the following year for his script co-written with Rodolfo González Pacheco and Eliseo Montaine for ''Three Men of the River'' (''Tres hombres del río'')(1943). Biography His maternal grandfather was Hugh Mac Dougall, a Scottish man who emigrated to Argentina. He settled in the province of Entre Ríos, where he owned several ''estancias''. One of his daughters was Margarita Mac Dougall. She married José María Mascías, a Catalan immigrant born in Reus, Tarragona on April 17, 1864 and from this marriage was born Hugo Mascías Mac Dougall. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine Film Critics Association Awards Ceremonies
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Argentine''. Argentina is a multiethnic and multilingual society, home to people of various ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Argentina. Aside from the indigenous population, nearly all Argentines or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. Among countries in the world that have received the most immigrants in modern history, Argentina, with 6.6 million, ranks second to the United States (27 million), and ahead of other immigr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon (company), Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upa En Apuros
''Upa en apuros'' is a 1942 Argentine short animated colour film written and directed by Dante Quinterno. The film premiered on November 20, 1942 at the Ambassador cinema in Buenos Aires. At the 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Quinterno won the Special Prize (Premio especial) for the film due to it being the first animated colour film in Argentine and Latin-American cinema. It's an adaptation of the Argentine comic strip ''Patoruzú Patoruzú is a comic character created in 1928 by Dante Quinterno and is considered the most popular hero of Argentine comics. Patoruzú is a wealthy Tehuelche '' cacique'' with great estate properties in Patagonia, and possesses both super ...''. References External links * 1942 films 1940s Spanish-language films Argentine black-and-white films Argentine animated films 1942 animated films Animated adventure films Films based on Argentine comics Animated films based on comics 1940s Argentine films {{19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante Quinterno
Dante Quinterno (Buenos Aires City, October 26, 1909Buenos Aires City, May 14, 2003) was an Argentine comics artist, agricultural producer, and prolific editorial businessman, famous for being the creator of the Patoruzú, Isidoro Cañones and Patoruzito characters. He was born in Buenos Aires city, on October 26, 1909, son of Martín Quinterno and Laura Raffo. His paternal grandfather was originally from Piamonte, and emigrated to Argentina to be an Agricultural producer and a fruit seller. In 1924 he began sending his drawings to several Buenos Aires newspapers and in 1925 he published his first comic ''Panitruco'', in ''El Suplemento''. Later on he wrote ''Andanzas y desventuras de Manolo Quaranta'' (1926); ''Don Fermín'' (later renamed ''Don Fierro'', 1926), and ''Un porteño optimista'' (later named ''Las aventuras de Don Gil Contento'', 1927), for different newspapers. In the latter he introduced in 1928 a new character ''Curugua-Curuguagüigua'', which was later rename ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How Green Was My Valley (film)
''How Green Was My Valley'' is a 1941 American drama film set in Wales, directed by John Ford. The film, based on the best-selling 1939 novel of the same name by Richard Llewellyn, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and scripted by Philip Dunne. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and a very young Roddy McDowall. It tells the story of the Morgans, a hard-working Welsh mining family, from the point of view of the youngest child Huw, who lives with his affectionate and kind parents as well as his sister and five brothers, in the South Wales Valleys during the late Victorian era. The story chronicles life in the South Wales coalfields, the loss of that way of life and its effects on the family. The fictional village in the film is based on Gilfach Goch,(February 7, 200"How Green Was My Valley" BBC Radio Wales. Retrieved August 20, 2019. where Llewellyn spent many summers visiting his grandfather, and it served as the inspiration for the novel. It was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ford
John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and naval officer. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. He was the recipient of six Academy Awards including a record four wins for Best Director. Ford made frequent use of location shooting and wide shots, in which his characters were framed against a vast, harsh, and rugged natural terrain. In a career of more than 50 years, Ford directed more than 140 films (although most of his silent films are now lost). He is renowned both for Westerns such as '' Stagecoach'' (1939), '' The Searchers'' (1956), and ''The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'' (1962) and adaptations of classic 20th century American novels such as '' The Grapes of Wrath'' (1940). Ford's work was held in high regard by his colleagues, with Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman among those who named him one of the greate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Condor Award For Best Foreign Film
The Silver Condor Award for Best Foreign Film ( es, Mejor Película en Lengua Extranjera), presented by the Argentine Film Critics Association The Argentine Film Critics Association ( es, Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina) is an organization of Argentine-based journalists and correspondents. The association presents the ''Silver Condor Awards'' (''Premios Cóndor ..., honors the best foreign-language film of the year. {{Argentine Film Critics Association Awards Argentine Film Critics Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homero Manzi
Homero Nicolás Manzione Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi (November 1, 1907 – May 3, 1951) was an Argentine tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos. He was born on November 1 of 1907 in Añatuya (province of Santiago del Estero), Argentina. Manzi was interested in literature and tango since he was young. After a brief incursion in journalism, he worked as a literature and Spanish professor but for political reasons (in addition to his membership in the Unión Cívica Radical) he was expelled from his professorship and decided to dedicate himself to the arts. In 1935 he participated in the beginnings of FORJA (Fuerza de Orientación Radical de la Joven Argentina – Force of Radical Orientation of the Young in Argentina), group whose position has been classified as “peoples nationalism”. It was centered almost exclusively in the problems in Argentina and Latin America. They manifested to “reconquer the political Sunday from our own land” since it was consid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulises Petit De Murat
Ulyses Petit de Murat (28 January 1907 – 19 August 1983) was an Argentine poet and screenwriter. He wrote the script for ''The Gaucho War'' (1942) with Homero Manzi based on the 1905 novel by Leopoldo Lugones. At the 1943 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Murat and Manzi won the Silver Condor Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for their screenplay of the film which proved highly successful. His poem "Graciela Oscura" was set to music by Astor Piazzolla for the film '' Extraña ternura''; this song was repeated several times in the movie, and was reported to be the main attraction of the film when it opened at Cine Monumental in the spring of 1964. He was a member of the jury at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the 13th Moscow International Film Festival in 1983. Selected filmography *''Prisoners of the Earth'' (1939) *''The Gaucho War'' (1942) *''His Best Student'' (1944) *'' Savage Pampas'' (1945) *''Where Words Fail'' (1946) *''The Earring'' (1951) *''Suburb' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Condor Award For Best Adapted Screenplay
The Silver Condor Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ( es, Premio Cóndor de Plata al mejor guion adaptado), given by the Argentine Film Critics Association, awards the best adapted screenplay in film in Argentina each year: {{Argentine Film Critics Association Awards Argentine Film Critics Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
