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4th Platino Awards
The 4th Platino Awards was presented at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on July 22, 2017, to honour the best in Ibero-American films of 2016. ''A Monster Calls'' received the most nominations with seven. Winners and nominees Major awards Honorary Platino * Edward James Olmos Films with multiple nominations and awards The following films received multiple nominations: References External links Official site{{Platino Awards, state=expanded 3 Platino Awards The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano (" Platinum Prizes of Ibero-American Cinema"), are Ibero-America's annual film awards. The awards were established in 2013, and the first awards ceremony took place ... 2017 in Madrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caja Mágica
La Caja Mágica ''( es, The Magic Box)'' (also known as the Manzanares Park Tennis Center) is a multi-purpose stadium located in Madrid, Spain. Since 2009, it has been the home of the Madrid Open tennis event, and as of 2019, the home of the Davis Cup. There are three courts under the one structure, and a series of retractable roofs. The seating capacity of Courts 1 and 2 would have been increased if Madrid's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics had been successful. Other sports and events In the 2010–11 season, it was the home stadium for the Real Madrid basketball team. In January 2013, it was the Madrid venue for the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship. It can also be used for concerts and shows. It was the venue for the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards held on 7 November of that year. Gallery See also * List of tennis stadiums by capacity * List of indoor arenas in Spain The following is a list of indoor arenas in Spain, ordered by capacity. The venues are by their f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn
Gastón Duprat (born December 8, 1969 ) and Mariano Cohn (born December 1, 1975) are TV and film directors and producers from Argentina. They began their career in TV in 1999, when they created and produced Televisión Abierta, an innovative and interactive TV show where the viewers created the content by requesting a cameraman to visit them to record a short clip (less than a minute). They both won the Konex Award Merit Diploma in 2002. Early steps Gastón and Mariano met during a regional experimental video festival in Buenos Aires back in 1993, where Gastón was a member of the jury and Mariano was in competition with his video ''Un día más en la tierra''. They began exchanging ideas after the event and started to work on new projects. They have been creative and business partners since then. In the fields of experimental film and video they have created more than twenty works that have been seen in movie theaters, art-house venues and museums around the world. Some of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sônia Braga
Sônia Maria Campos Braga (; born 8 June 1950) is a Brazilian actress. She is known in the English-speaking world for her Golden Globe Award–nominated performances in '' Kiss of the Spider Woman'' (1985) and ''Moon over Parador'' (1988). She also received a BAFTA Award nomination in 1981 for ''Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands'' (first released in 1976). For the 1994 television film '' The Burning Season'', she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a third Golden Globe Award. Her other television and film credits include ''The Cosby Show'' (1986), ''Sex and the City'' (2001), '' American Family'' (2002), ''Alias'' (2005), ''Aquarius'' (2016), ''Bacurau'' (2019), and ''Fatima'' (2020). In 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked her #24 in its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. Early life Sônia Braga was born on June 8, 1950, daughter of Hélio Fernando Ferraz Braga and Maria Braga Jaci Campos, a costume designer from Maringá. Sônia's siblings are Júlio, Ana, Hélio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platino Award For Best Actress
The Platino Award for Best Actress (Spanish: ''Premio Platino a la mejor actriz/Premio Platino a la mejor interpretación femenina'') is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards presented annually by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA). It was first awarded in 2014, with Chilean actress Paulina García being the first recipient of the award, for her role as Gloria Cumplido in ''Gloria''. Until the 7th edition in 2020, female supporting performances were included in this category. In 2021, the category for Best Supporting Actress was created. No actress has received this award for than once while Penélope Cruz and Antonia Zegers are the most nominated actresses in this category with three nominations each, followed by Paulina García, Laura de la Uz, Natalia Oreiro, Ilse Salas and Emma Suárez with two nominations each. Spain holds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection ''Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair'' (1924). Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. When President Gabriel González Videla outlawed communism in Chile in 1948, a warrant was issued for Neruda's arrest. Friends hid him for months in the basement of a house in the port city of Valparaíso, and in 1949 he escaped through a mountain pass near Maihue Lake into Argentina; he would not retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Gnecco
Luis Enrique Gnecco Dessy (born 12 December 1962) is a Chilean actor. Besides his work in Chilean telenovelas and films (''Johnny 100 Pesos'', the Academy Award nominated '' No'', ''El bosque de Karadima'', ''A Fantastic Woman'' and '' Neruda''), he is internationally known for his performances in HBO's ''Prófugos'' and Netflix series '' Narcos''. Biography While studying biology under, among others, Humberto Maturana, Gnecco developed into an actor and a comedian.El MercurioEl informe Gnecco/ref> Afterwards he studied in the Theatre academy of Fernando González. In 1985 he began to work in telenovelas, such as '' Amores de mercado'', '' Brujas'', and ''Soltera otra vez''. Two years later he started appearing in comedy shows such as ''De Chincol a Jote'', ''El desjueves'' (1990–1995), and ''Na' que ver con Chile''. In 2008 he played the lead role in the Chilean version of ''The Office'', ''The ofis''. In 2016, the jury at the 17th Havana Film Festival New York The Hava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Paesa
Francisco Paesa (born in Madrid, Spain, 11 April 1936) is a Spanish former spy and businessman best known for his implication in several corruption scandals and the faking of his own death in the 1990s. Biography He began his business career conducting various businesses with Francisco Macías Nguema, the then dictator of Equatorial Guinea. In 1976 he was arrested by Interpol in Belgium and imprisoned in Switzerland and it is believed that he collaborated with the paramilitary group GAL. Sokoa Operation In 1986, after serving his sentence, he posed as an arms dealer who sold two antiaircraft missiles to ETA. The terrorist group did not know that the missiles had a location signal. The police could find at Henday in France during July 1986 and for the first time, a major hideout in which a large number of weapons and documents were stored. Until then, the Spanish government knew virtually nothing about ETA logistics and this operation was an important turning point. Judge Balt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Fernández
Eduard Fernández Serrano (born 25 August 1964) is a Spanish screen and stage actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Goya Awards and four Gaudí Awards. Biography Eduard Fernández was born in Barcelona on 25 August 1964. He trained as a mime artist at the Barcelona's Institut del Teatre, and did street performances as such. He had a 25-year relationship with writer , with whom he had one daughter, Greta, who is also an actress. Following a theatre (he was a member of ) and television career, he made his feature film debut at age 30, in 1994 film ''Souvenir''. His breakthrough film role in 1999 thriller '' Washington Wolves'' earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best New Actor The Goya Award for Best New Actor ( es, Premio Goya al mejor actor revelación, links=no) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (s .... Partial film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thin Yellow Line
''The Thin Yellow Line'' ( es, La delgada línea amarilla) is a 2015 Mexican road comedy-drama film directed by Celso R. García. It was one of fourteen films shortlisted by Mexico to be their submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, but it lost out to '' 600 Miles''. Cast * Damián Alcázar as Toño * Joaquín Cosio as Gabriel * Silverio Palacios as Atayde * Gustavo Sánchez Parra as Mario * Américo Hollander as Pablo * Fernando Becerril as Ingeniero Reception On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang ..., the film holds an approval rating of 89%, based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 7/10. References External links * 2015 films 2015 comedy-drama films Mexican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damián Alcázar
Damián Alcázar (born January 8, 1953) is a Mexican actor and politician, who is best known outside of Mexico as Lord Sopespian in '' The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian''. He was a deputy in the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City. Career Damián Alcázar studied acting first at the National Institute of Fine Arts and at the Theatrical Experimentation Center, then continued at the Faculty of Theater of the Veracruz University, where in later years he would work as a teacher. He served as an actor for eight years in two theatre companies, alongside the most prestigious directors in Mexico. Notably under the direction of George Labaudan, he appeared on Jean Genet's play, The Balcony. He has appeared in six foreign films and more than twenty-eight Mexican films. He was awarded the Ariel for Best Actor in 1999 and in 2004, for the films ''Under California: The Time Limit'', by Carlos Bolado, and ''Crónicas'', by Sebastián Cordero. He also won the prize for Best Actor at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Afar (film)
''From Afar'' ( es, Desde allá) is a 2015 Venezuelan drama film directed by Lorenzo Vigas and written by Vigas and Guillermo Arriaga. It won the Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. It was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. The film is about Armando, a wealthy middle-aged man who gets involved with Élder, a young man from a street gang. Cast * Alfredo Castro as Armando * Luis Silva as Élder * Jericó Montilla as Amelia * Catherina Cardozo as María * Jorge Luis Bosque as Fernando * Greymer Acosta as Palma * Auffer Camacho as Mermelada Accolades See also * List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films of 2015 * List of submissions to the 89th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Venezuelan submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Venezuela has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Castro (actor)
Alfredo Arturo Castro Gómez (born 19 December 1955), best known as Alfredo Castro, is a Chilean actor. With a well stablished trajectory in theater and television, he became one of the most required latinamerican film actors of the 2010's. Personal and early life He grew up in a family of five brothers; his mother died of cancer when he was 10. He attended elementary and middle school at Saint Gabriel de Las Condes, Kent School in Providencia and Liceo de Hombres No. 11 in Las Condes. He entered the Theater Department of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, where he graduated in acting in 1977. That same year he received the APES Award from the Association of Entertainment Journalists. That same year he debuted in ''Equus'', with good reviews from the specialized press. Acting carrer Between 1978 and 1981 he worked in ''Teatro Itinerante'', of which he was one of its founders. In 1982 he participates in the production for Televisión Nacional de Chile ''De cara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
