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Silver Condor Award For Best Actress
The Silver Condor Award for Best Actress ( es, Premio Cóndor de Plata a la mejor actriz), given by the Argentine Film Critics Association, awards the best actress in Argentina each year: References {{Reflist Argentine Film Critics Association ... [...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] |
Beatriz Spelzini
Beatriz Spelzini is an Argentinian actress. She has appeared in multiple films and television programs in Argentina as well as many European countries. Her film credits include ' (2011), '' Yo la recuerdo ahora'' and ''The Cat Vanishes ''The Cat Vanishes'' ( es, El gato desaparece) is a 2011 Argentine drama film written and directed by Carlos Sorín. A college professor (Luque) returns home life after being hospitalized following a nervous breakdown - but his joy is clouded b ...''. Television appearances include '' La Nada Blanca'' and '' Donne assassine''. External links * Argentine film actresses Argentine television actresses Living people 20th-century Argentine actresses 21st-century Argentine actresses Year of birth missing (living people) {{Argentina-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Y Fred
''Elsa y Fred'' (''Elsa and Fred'') is a 2005 Spanish-Argentine film co-production directed by Marcos Carnevale and starring Manuel Alexandre, China Zorrilla and Federico Luppi. An American remake of the film was released in 2014. Synopsis Fred, a recently widowed Spaniard in his 70s who has led a quiet life, retires to an apartment in Madrid. Elsa, a similarly aged but more colorful Argentinian and a chronic liar, is his neighbor. Fred has no significant health problems but is a hypochondriac. Elsa is seriously ill and undergoing dialysis but hides it from Fred. The two fall in love. Elsa throws Fred into situations the widower would have disapproved of before he met her, making him "live life and not death". Once Fred learns Elsa will probably die, he pays all their expenses for a trip to Rome to fulfill Elsa's lifelong wish of reenacting Federico Fellini's famous scene starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg under the Fontana di Trevi in ''La Dolce Vita''. After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Zorrilla
China Zorrilla (; born Concepción Matilde Zorrilla de San Martín Muñoz; 14 March 1922 – 17 September 2014) was an Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplatense area, she is often regarded as a "Grand Dame" of the South American theater stage. After a long career in the Uruguayan theater, Zorrilla made over fifty appearances in Argentina's film, theater and TV. Her career took off in Uruguay in the 1950 and 1960s, later she settled in Argentina, where she lived for over 35 years and was popular on TV, theater, and cinema. At 90, she retired and returned to Uruguay, where she died in 2014. In 2008, Zorrilla was invested Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and in 2011, the Correo Uruguayo (the national postal service in Uruguay) released a print run of 500 commemorative postage stamps dedicated to her. Early life Born in Montevideo into an aristocratic Uruguayan family, " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeria Bertuccelli
Valeria Bertuccelli (born 1969, 30 November) is an Argentine film and television actress. Born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina she began her career in experimental theatre, and later worked in the San Martín and Cervantes theatres. She was first cast in the cinema of Argentina by director Mariano Galperin, and received a Silver Condor Award for her role in Daniel Barone's ''Alma mía'' (2000). She won another Silver Condor for her leading role in Diego Lerman's ''Mientras tanto'', in 2007. Her husband, Vicentico, is co-founder and lead vocalist of the Argentine rock group Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. They have two sons together, Florián and Vicente. Filmography * ''1000 Boomerangs'' (1995) * ''Alma mía'' (1999) * ''Silvia Prieto'' (1999) a.k.a. ''Silvia Prieto'' * ''Los Guantes mágicos'' (2003) a.k.a. ''The Magic Gloves'' * ''Extraño'' (2003) a.k.a. ''Strange'' * ''Boca de fresa'' (2003) * ''Próxima salida'' (2004) * ''Luna de Avellaneda'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XXY (film)
''XXY'' is a 2007 Argentine drama film written and directed by Lucía Puenzo and starring Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Inés Efron and Martín Piroyansky. The film tells the story of a 15-year-old intersex person, the way her family copes with her condition and the ultimate decision that she must eventually make as she struggles to define her own gender identity within a society that expects certain behaviors from every individual. ''XXY'' received positive reviews from critics, winning the Critics' Week grand prize at the 2007 Cannes film festival, as well as the ACID/CCAS Support Award. It was nominated for eight awards at the 2008 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, winning three of them including Best Film, and was nominated or won awards at a number of other foreign film festivals. It was chosen to close the 2008 Melbourne Queer Film Festival and had a short run theatrical release before being released onto DVD. The film also won the Goya Award for Best Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inés Efron
Inés Efron (born May 9, 1984 in Mexico City) is an Argentine actress. Career Before ''XXY'', Inés Efron starred in ''Glue'', a drama about three teenagers set in a small town in a remote town in Uruguay. In her '' XXY'' role, Efron's character is a 15-year-old intersex person trying to make a decision about their identity. Efron pointed out that "I liked the Alex character a lot and thought: I can do that. I felt a real connection." For her performance, Efron won the award for Best Actress at the Cartagena Film Festival as well as three other awards. Efron is cited by Internet portal Ciudad.com.ar as "one of the most interesting arising actresses of Buenos Aires." In 2008, she starred in '' The Headless Woman'' by Lucrecia Martel Lucrecia Martel (born December 14, 1966) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer whose feature films have frequented Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, and many other international film festivals. Film scholar Paul Julian Smith w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mujer Sin Cabeza
''The Headless Woman'' ( es, La mujer sin cabeza / La mujer rubia) is a 2008 Argentine psychological thriller art film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel and starring María Onetto. The plot revolves around Vero (short for Verónica) (Onetto), who hits something while driving on a deserted road near Salta. Not being sure if she has hit a person or an animal, she drives off, and becomes increasingly mentally disturbed. The film premiered in competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2008. It opened nationwide on August 21, 2008, after being screened at the Locarno International Film Festival earlier that month. While ''The Headless Woman'' was mostly lauded by critics for its cinematography and social commentary, others were critical towards the film's slow pace and lack of clear narrative. In 2016, the film was ranked No. 89th on BBC's list of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century. In 2022, it was selected as the 24th greatest film of Argentine cinema in a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Onetto
María Onetto (18 August 1966 – 2 March 2023) was an Argentine theatre, film, and television actress. She received the a 2011 Konex Award in entertainment for her theatrical work, and is also well known for her role in the 2006 Argentine TV series ''Montecristo'', for which she won the Clarín and Martín Fierro Awards as best actress in drama and rising star. She also directed a localized production of rock musical ''Passing Strange'' in 2011. Onetto was born in Buenos Aires on 18 August 1966. She was the daughter of Estela Mary Pastore and Jorge Onetto, an employee of the energy company Segba () and restaurateur who died of a sudden myocardial infarction in 1967 when María was one year old. The family lived in the suburb of Martínez, Buenos Aires. She was enrolled in a Catholic school, and at age 17 she began studying psychology at the University of Buenos Aires, where she took up acting in the theater. She graduated in four years and for a time worked in the same school a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Secreto De Sus Ojos
''The Secret in Their Eyes'' ( es, link=no, El secreto de sus ojos) is a 2009 Argentinian crime drama film directed, co-written, produced and edited by Juan José Campanella, based on the novel ''La pregunta de sus ojos'' (''The Question in Their Eyes'') by Eduardo Sacheri, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film is a joint production of Argentine and Spanish companies. Using a nonlinear narrative, the film depicts a judiciary employee and his boss, a law clerk, in 1974, played by Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil, respectively, as they investigate a rape and murder case, while also following the characters 25 years later reminiscing over the case and unearthing the buried romance between them. The film received awards in both Hollywood and Spain, notably the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, making Argentina, with 1985's ''The Official Story'', the first country in Latin America to win it twice. Three weeks before, it had receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soledad Villamil
Soledad Villamil (born June 19, 1969 in La Plata) is an Argentine film and television actress and singer. She has won two Carlos Gardel Awards, Argentine equivalent of American Grammy Awards and British BRIT Awards besides, Goya Award for Best New Actress for the film, ''The Secret in Their Eyes''. As an actress, she has worked in films, theatre and television. As a singer she has released four albums so far, tackling Argentine tango and folklore themes. Personal life She is married to Federico Olivera, also an actor, since 1997. They have two children, Violeta and Clara Olivera. Her parents are Sergio Villamil, doctor and Laura Falcoff, journalist. She has two brothers, Camila and Nicolás. Filmography (partial) * '' Corazón loco'' (2020) * '' A Twelve-Year Night'' (2018) * '' Todos tenemos un plan'' (2012) ''Everybody Has a Plan'' * ''El secreto de sus ojos'' (2009) ''The Secret in Their Eyes'' * ''No sos vos, soy yo'' (2004) ''It's Not You, It's Me'' * '' Un oso rojo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
