Oscar Nominations - for Mexicans or Mexican Filmmaking?
MEXICO CITY, Feb 22 (IPS) - Millions will be glued to their television sets in [Mexico] this Sunday to watch the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in the United States, where Mexican artists and filmmakers have been nominated in 16 categories.
This unprecedented number of nominations is a tribute to a generation of film artists, now aged 30 to 45 years old, who emigrated to the United States in search of opportunities, as over 400,000 Mexicans do every year.
“Babel”, a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, has been nominated for seven awards, including best film and best director, from the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is followed by “Pan’s Labyrinth” by Guillermo del Toro, with six nominations, and “Children of Men” by Alfonso Cuarón, with three.[
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