Madrid.- costume designer Yvonne Blake was elected this Saturday the president of the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain, a position he assumed on an interim basis since the resignation of the actor Antonio Resines, last July.
Blake, of british origin and based in Spain since five decades ago, was the only candidate to the presidency of the institution. With an abstention of more than 80 per cent, collected 193 votes in favor, 50 against, three in white and two null.
The director Mariano Barroso and the actress Nora Navas will be your “number two” and “number three”, respectively.
Winner of an Oscar and four Goya awards, the model maker took it on in July the chair-in-office of the Film Academy following the resignation of Antonio Resines, who argued “serious discrepancies” with the address of the agency.
One of his first challenges will be to recover the relationship between the presidency and the board of directors of the Academy, which brings together the 28 members of the 14 specialties represented.
Blake (Manchester, 1938), promised more transparency, modernity, and renewal in an institution that hoped to be “the home of all the people who make movies,” he said today. “There are a lot of important people making films, much success, that do not belong to the Academy. I want to personally invite them”, he added.
today’s vote was the third in the Spanish Academy of Cinema in two and a half years. Before the resignation of Resines in February 2015, also the producer, exhibitor and distributor Enrique González Macho retired from the presidency.
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