MEXICO CITY -- Mexico selected Aro Tolbukhin (En la Mente del Asesino) as its official contender to vie for a foreign-language Oscar nomination. The Mexico/Spain co-production, directed and written by Agusti Villaronga, Lydia Zimmerman and Isaac P. Racine, re-creates an allegedly true story of a Hungarian man living in Guatemala who burned seven nurses alive. The film uses a mix of documentary and fiction footage. In April, Aro Tolbukhin won seven of Mexico's prestigious Ariel awards, including best actor for Daniel Gimenez Cacho and best actress for Carmen Beato.
- 9/25/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MEXICO CITY -- All sins were forgiven Tuesday evening at the 45th annual Ariel Awards ceremony, where the controversial boxoffice hit El Crimen del Padre Amaro grabbed nine statuettes, including best picture, director and adapted screenplay. Pseudo-documentary Aro Tolbukhin: En la mente del asesino (Aro Tolbukhin in the Mind of a Killer) offered the only real competition for El Crimen at the capital's Palace of Fine Arts, nabbing seven awards, among them best actor (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) and actress (Carmen Beato). The Mexican Cinematographic Academy of Arts and Sciences, which comprises 123 voting members, selected this year's winners. In her opening speech, Academy President Diana Bracho used the opportunity to speak about the local industry's ongoing production crisis and to criticize the war in Iraq, setting the tone of antiwar sentiment.
- 4/10/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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