Bayonne’s ‘Snow Society’ was nominated for an Oscar

Spanish film “Snow Company”, author Juan Antonio Bayonawhich narrates the struggle of the survivors of the air tragedy in Los Andes, was nominated this Tuesday for the Academy Award for Best International Film for Hollywood Academy and for Oscar for the best makeup and hair design.

This is first nomination for Bayonne (Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​1975), which will have to compete with the Italian ‘Io Capitano’, the British ‘The Zone of Interest’, the Japanese ‘Perfect days’ and the German ‘The teachers lounge’.

The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced this morning Angels actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid, who provided the final list of nominees for the 23 categories.

“Snow company”, a story about a feat

Nomination for the highest awards in American cinemawhich will be delivered on March 10 in Los Angeles, arriving days after the film failed to score Golden Globe the French film ‘Anatomy of the Fall’ by Justine Triet was awarded the best foreign language film.

And that after it became known last week that she was one of the five nominated for best foreign language film at the BAFTA Awards of the British Film Academy.

“Snow Company” tells about the feat 16 survivors of the flight 571 crash of the Uruguayan Air Force, which transported members of the Old Christians Club rugby club from Montevideo to Chile along with several of their loved ones and five crew members.

The plane crashed on October 13, 1972 in Glacier of tearsAndean wasteland in which living conditions They were almost impossible.

The survivors resisted for 72 days, they endured extreme temperaturesavalanches and sandstorms and must feed on the corpses of their dead comrades.

“A lot of enthusiasm” for Bayona

In an interview for EFE from red carpet at the last Golden Globes, the 48-year-old director from Barcelona said it made him “a lot of hope” represent Spain with a film starring Uruguayans and Argentines, which was shot in Spain, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile.

In the film, which met with the participation and approval of the survivors and their families, the performances of Matías Recalto, who plays Roberto Canessa in the film, and Enzo Vogrincic, in the role of Numa Turcatti, stand out.

This film marked Bayona’s comeback with a Spanish-language film since ‘El Orfanato’ (2007), after which it was launched in Anglo-Saxon market with titles like ‘The Impossible’ or more recently with the series ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’.

Success on Netflix

Three-time award-winning director Goya Awards He showed this week at a press conference how happy he is acknowledgments that the film, which premiered at the last Venice Film Festival in September, is experiencing, as well as a “surprising” response from the public, with more than 51 million views in just ten days in Netflix.

In a recent interview with EFE, Bayona said that his goal in telling the story was “to recover the memory of the deceased“, they talk about “the way they gave themselves to each other” and focus on the spiritual, on the demonstration of “how we heal through a wound”.