Mexico is formally nominated for the Oscars “Sujo” sweeps the twenty second Academy AwardsND Morelia Worldwide Movie Competition (FICM), gained the competition’s Ojo Awards for Finest Movie, Director and Screenplay.
Co-writers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s debut characteristic, Recognition, gained a number of Sundance Awards and was launched in 2021 Tam Awards for Finest Worldwide Characteristic, additionally for “Sujo,” their sophomore characteristic, in January.
be praised sort Billed as “an optimistic various to violent drug conflict films,” this poignant coming-of-age story revolves across the affect of drug cartels on younger folks. The story follows younger Sujo (performed by Kevin Uriel Aguilar Luna and Juan Jesus Varela) as he grows up surrounded by violence. When his father, a hitman (murderer for rent), is killed, he turns into a goal, however Su Tiao’s courageous aunt saves him.
Sujo’s win capped off a celebrity-filled competition that included Francis Ford Coppola, Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuaron, Liv Tyler, Ava… DuVernay, Ira Sacks, and Leos Carax.
The competition, headed by Daniela Michel, opens on October 18, with France submitting Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez to the Oscars. Emilia Pérez, which gained the Oscar for its 4 main actors: Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Karla Sofía Gascón Cannes Jury Prize and Finest Actress Award with Adriana Paz. The latter two have been particular visitors on the twenty second FICM.
Coppola’s newest movie, Megalopolis, debuted on the competition’s grand screening, the place the five-time Academy Award winner was awarded the FICM Award for Inventive Excellence.
Moreover, a number of Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto makes his directorial debut for Netflix with Pedro Páramo, an adaptation of Juan ·Literary classics by Juan Rulfo.
Prieto is nominated for her work on digital camera in Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” and Martin Scorsese’s “Silence,” “The Irishman” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
Cuarón, winner of a number of Academy Awards for “Gravity” and “Roma,” closed the competition on October 25 along with his newest work, the AppleTV+ restricted collection “Disclaimer.”
FICM celebrates and showcases Mexico’s finest work of the 12 months, and has additionally hosted Brady Corbet’s The Fauves, Mark Cousins’ documentary A Sudden Glimpse of Issues, Louis Mexican premieres of well-known movies reminiscent of Luis Ortega’s “El Jockey”. Dro Almodóvar’s “The Room Subsequent Door” and Palme d’Or winner Sean Baker’s “Anola” are at this 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition.
twenty twoND FICM Award Winners:
Finest Mexican Drama Movie
“Sujo”, Astrid Landero and Fernanda Valadez
finest director
Astrid Landero and Fernanda Valadez “Sujo”
finest screenplay
Astrid Landero and Fernanda Valadez “Sujo”
finest actor
Andrés Levo’s “Wonderful Younger Man”
finest actress
Diana Laura Dee “Violent Butterfly”
Finest Mexican Documentary
“Li cham” by Ana Ts’uyeb
Particular point out for Mexican documentaries
“La Falla” by Alana Simos
Finest Mexican Fiction Quick Movie
“Spirit” by Adolf Margulies
Finest Mexican Animated Quick Movie
“The Black Stain” by Yareni Velázquez Mendoza
Finest Mexican Documentary Quick
Juan Vicente Manrique “Trying to find a Donkey”
Particular Jury Award
“Renta Imagen: Falcon Boy Sleeps in Visions of Hearth”, Mauricio Sáenz-Cánovas
Finest Michoacan Quick Movie
“Mark”, Rafael Martinez Garcia
Finest Michoacán Quick Movie Screenplay
“Earlier than the First Kiss” by Adrian A. Gonzalez Camargo
