2013 Academy Awards Rolando Pérez Betancourt rolando.pb@granma.cip.cu A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. Confirming the vaudevillian maxim, “The Show Must Go On!”, the Hollywood Academy granted its highest honor –the Oscar for best picture– to Ben Affleck’s film Argo, a good thriller if it weren’t for its many distortions and lies, as reported from all over the world. ANNE HATHAWAY WAS BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FOR LES MISERABLES Argo resorts to the classic line “based on true facts” to describe a rescue operation in Iran in 1979, during the so-called “hostage crisis”. The CIA emerges the great winner, while an agent played by Ben Affleck himself represents again the “Americanization of the hero” that Hollywood loves so much. Recently, Ken Taylor, then-Canadian ambassador in Tehran, told the Toronto Star, not without certain sarcasm, that the film is both fun and thrilling, “but look, Canada was not merely standing around watching events took place. The CIA was a junior partner”. Argo also got hold of the Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Taiwanese director Ang Lee’s Life of Pi wangled four Awards: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Visual Effects. The Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role caught no one off guard: Daniel Day-Lewis, for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, a movie that lost its strength gradually along the way and only won two Awards, Lewis’s and the one for Best Production Design. The statuette for Best Actress in a Leading Role was gleaned by American cinema’s new sensation, Jennifer Lawrence, for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook. Anne Hathaway and the Austrian actor Christoph Waltz won the prizes for best supporting performances in, respectively, Les Misérables and director Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, which also scored for Best Original Screenplay. As to the Best Foreign Language Film, the Oscar went to Michael Haneke’s Amour, a massive success at the recent César Awards ceremony presented by the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques.
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La Habana, martes 26 de febrero de 2013. Año 17 / Número 57
Oscar 2013
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