Argentine film director and screenwriter
Adolfo Aristarain
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October 19, 1943
(age 80)
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Adolfo Aristarain
(born October 19, 1943) is an
Argentine
film director and screenwriter who is famous for his filmic sophistication and subtle examination of issues of political oppression.
Variety
has deemed him "a master filmmaker."
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Biography
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Aristarain was born in
Buenos Aires
. After leaving Argentina, he started working as assistant director in the
Arcente cinema
, and then in
Europe
during his short exile for
Mario Camus
,
Giorgio Stegani
and
Lewis Gilbert
before returning to Argentina in 1974, following the death of Argentine president
Juan Peron
. His first 3 films did not receive favorable reviews, but in 1981
Tiempo de revancha
received both critical acclaim and public success. Released in the midst of the so-called
Guerra Sucia
("Dirty War") when Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship, the film had strong political undercurrents but faced few problems from censors. As Aristarain would later explain, he initially included long, unnecessary sex scenes in the film, "so the censors took five days and questioned things—not politics or ideology but sex. All I had to do was cut a few frames at the end of some scenes, like one of a strip tease. It doesn't hurt the scenes—especially if you made them longer than they should have been."
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Back in
Spain
he directed a mini-series for television, and after a series of aborted projects he had renewed success in Argentina:
Un Lugar en el Mundo
, starring
Federico Luppi
, with whom he has maintained frequent collaboration. He then filmed
La Ley de la frontera
and
Martin (hache)
in Spain, also starring Luppi. Aristarain continued with his Argentine-Spanish mixture of actors in
Lugares comunes
and
Roma
.
Aristarain wrote all the scripts of his directed movies with the exception of the
Columbia Pictures
release
The Stranger,
which was written by American screenwriter Dan Gurskis.
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He has received numerous awards for his work, including
Golden Seashell
and an
Academy Award
nomination for
Un Lugar en el mundo
, Best Director award at the Havana Film Festival, and Golden Seashell nomination for
Martin (Hache)
, the First Prize at the Havana Film Festival and the
Grand Prix des Ameriques
award at the
Montreal World Film Festival
for
Tiempo de revancha
.
The Academy Award Nomination was disqualified by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
because the film was submitted for consideration (for Best Foreign Movie) by
Uruguay
(his wife's country) while The Academy claimed it was an Argentine production, and should therefore have been submitted by that country.
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Aristarain has worked many times with several, notable actors, such as Federico Luppi (7 times),
Julio de Grazia
(4 times),
Cecilia Roth
(3 times),
Ricardo Darin
(3 times) and
Ulises Dumont
(2 times). He has held Spanish Citizenship since 2003.
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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2010s
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- 2010:
Agusti Villaronga
- 2011: Angel de la Cruz, Ignacio Ferreras,
Paco Roca
, and Rosanna Cecchini
- 2012: Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallon, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull, and Neil Landau
- 2013:
Alejandro Hernandez
and
Mariano Barroso
- 2014:
Javier Fesser
, Claro Garcia, and Cristobal Ruiz
- 2015:
Fernando Leon de Aranoa
- 2016:
Alberto Rodriguez
and
Rafael Cobos
- 2017:
Isabel Coixet
- 2018:
Alvaro Brechner
- 2019:
Benito Zambrano
, Daniel Remon, and Pablo Remon
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2020s
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Awarded as Best Screenplay (including both original and adapted)
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International
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National
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Other
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