LONDON (EFE) – The Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who won Sunday’s Bafta for best director for The revenant ( The reborn ). He says that “we must change the cultural perception” we have of Latinos in Hollywood to promote their inclusion in the film industry.
Iñárritu spoke these words to the media after his band became the winner of the 69th edition of the British film awards, winning five awards: best film, best director, best actor (Leonardo DiCaprio ), best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki) and better sound.
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For the filmmaker “the problem of diversity” in Hollywood ” It is going beyond “the” racism “as it refers to a” cultural thing “and it is therefore necessary to” recognize the identity “not only Latinos but also” Africans and Asians “.
“All I have mixed in some form or other roots. I have no data on how many Latin Americans appear in movies or TV shows in the United States, but much remains to be done,” said the Mexican.
The filmmaker explained in his award for best director in hand, the team of The reborn went through “physical challenges” during filming, but the hardest part was getting people to “experience the same loneliness that the main character” only through images and dialogues.
However, he acknowledged he was “excited, nervous and in a state of adrenaline” now that all your work has been “rewarded”.
Within two weeks will have another important appointment, the Oscars, the film comes as its favorite with 12 nominations.
Also last year, his previous film, Birdman was among the favorites for the Bafta, the Oscars and the Golden Globes, but at the moment things take a different path .
Birdman got two balloons of the six aspiring to the best script and lead actor in comedy (Michael Keaton), while The reborn won the three most important: film, director and actor in drama.
In the case of Bafta, Birdman was only one of the 10 to which he aspired, the best cinematography for Lubezki, compared with five got tonight The reborn .
And the Oscar, Birdman asserted his status as favorite and won four of the nine awards he was nominated for: best film, director, screenplay and photography.
On February 28 will be reissued if Iñárritu that success. This year is no less than 12 nominations and to get the best picture, will be the first time a director has been in two years this award.
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