Pedro Pascal, actor of The Last of Us, supported Argentina in their race for the Oscars in 1985

The 2023 Oscars take place on Sunday, March 12 at the Dolby Theater in the City of Los Angeles, but voting to select the winner for Best International Picture doesn’t close until March 7.

The system by which the category in which he competes is defined Argentina, 1985 This is called preferential voting. In this process, the most matching movie among all members is searched. In the first round, each voter ranks the five nominated films in order of preference, from first to fifth.

To win, a film must receive more than half of the votes. If neither of them wins more than 50% of the votes in the first round, the one with the fewest votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed according to the voters’ second choice. This process continues until a candidate obtains more than 50% of the votes and is declared the winner. This preferential voting system allows a film that has broad support and a larger majority to be selected, rather than a film that simply has a large number of voters who consider it their first choice.

That’s why Santiago Miterdirector of the prestigious film, with victoria alonsoexecutive vice president of production at Marvel Studios and producer of the film; Axel Kuschevatzkya highly recognized producer of our country now based in the United States, and Augustine Llambi-Campbellproducer of the film, performed Friday night at the Los Feliz Theater, owned by the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles.

With a private screening followed by a Q&A, Argentina, 1985 he continues his race for the Oscars, and tries to bring as many members of the academy as possible to see the film and thus have the possibility of voting for him.

The Argentinian director and producers were interviewed by the Chilean Peter Pascal, one of the actors of the moment. Pascal acquired great worldwide notoriety during the show. Narcos, participate in the eveningsand The Mandalorian derivative of the saga star wars and is the protagonist of The last of us, the biggest adaptation of a video game to television in recent times. Thanks to the number of viewers of these two productions, their popularity has increased in all parts of the world.

Pascal acknowledged that he had offered to be the moderator of this meeting and opened the discussion by evoking his personal history. “The reason why I grew up in the United States is that my family had to go into exile because of the dictatorship in my country and that’s why the content of the film is very powerful for me and my family”, making alluding to the fact that he, his parents and his brothers had to flee Santiago de Chile when Pascal was only one year old, after Augusto Pinochet’s military coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973.

The story of the film is set after the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina, a democratic government was restored with the aim of restoring stability and guaranteeing human rights. In this context, prosecutors Julio Strassera (interpreted by Ricardo Darin) y Luis Moreno Ocampo (Pierre Lanzani) prosecute nine of the ten senior military commanders of the first three ruling juntas in the country.

In the interview, Kuschevatzky said that this film “is about protecting democracy, about taking responsibility for building it, and that no one is above the law,” and Miter added that “this film is an example of how to build a better democracy and gives us a model of what Argentine society can be if we all fight together for a just cause”.

Asked by Pascal about the impact of the film in Argentina, Llambí-Campbell said that “the acceptance of the film has been incredible and it is also one of the reasons that has brought people back to theaters after the pandemic, creating at the same time a meeting point among Argentines”. Alonso ended the speech with great emotion, explaining that “this film is a story in which truth triumphs over power, no matter where we are and there is no specific period of time to do so, truth must always triumph over power”.

Pascal, who in the meeting referred to the World Cup victory in Qatar, joins the long list of celebrities, such as Lionel Messi, Ricky Martin, Michael Bubble and Eva Longoria, among others, who support the film. The final verdict is not yet known, but Argentina, 1985 has a good chance of being the film that wins the third golden statuette, after The official story and The secret in their eyesand thus become the Latin American country with the highest number of awards given by the academy.

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