2024-03-16 22:43:03
La Memoria Infinita competes in Best Documentary and El Conde does the same in Best Cinematography.
This Sunday night the traditional 2024 Oscars ceremony will take place, where Chile will have double representation with Infinite Memory and The Count.
Maite Alberdi’s film, which tells the story of Paulina Urrutia and Augusto Góngora in the midst of the Alzheimer’s diagnosis faced by the remembered journalist, competes in the Best Documentary category.
For its part, The Count of Pablo Larraín, which shows a version of the life of Augusto Pinochet in a black comedy, will seek to keep the statuette in Best Cinematography.
However, specialists’ projections suggest that the national representatives will not emerge as winners in their respective categories.
Best documentary at the Oscars 2024
In this category, BBC experts predict that the Academy will award a political film, following the trend of 2023, being the chosen one 20 Days in Mariupol.
Nicholas Barber expressed that “20 Days in Mariupolwritten and directed by Pulitzer winner Mstyslav Chernov, is a harrowing first-hand account of his experience in the Ukrainian port city when it was besieged by Russian forces in 2022.
“The film already won a BAFTA and will probably also triumph at the Oscars. And rightly so,” she added.
His vision was shared by Caryn James, who added that the only documentary that could threaten his victory would be Four Daughterswhich “is also political, although more inventive, as it combines actors with real people to document the story of a mother who saw two of her daughters being recruited by the Islamic State.”
What will happen to The Count?
Pablo Larraín’s El Conde had more difficult competition, since In Best Cinematography it competed with heavyweights like Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Killers of the Flower Moon y Maestro.
In this regard, columnist Glen Whipp of the Los Angeles Times has no doubts about who will win the Oscar.
“Alternating between black and white and color, claustrophobic rooms and a spectacular spectacle, Oppenheimer he did it all. The use of the large format IMAX camera for close-ups increased both the tension and the sense of intimacy. At least Hoyte Van Hoytema earned this for routinely carrying those 54-pound cameras,” he explained.