No foreign language film has ever won the Oscar for best picture and that infamous streak was continued today. This has not diminished the enthusiasm of the director of "El Secreto de Sus Ojos", however:
(Juan Jose) Campanella, whose "Son of the Bride" was nominated for an Oscar in 2002, told Argentine cable channel Todo Noticias he was stunned by Tuesday's news.Movies like "Pan's Labyrinth", "Alsino and the Condor", and "Central Station", have been nominated to the Best Foreign Language Film category but only once has a Latin American film won it. Argentina’s “La historia oficial” (“The Official Version”) won in 1985. The emotional drama centers on a possible illegal adoption resulting from the Dirty War and was made as Argentines slowly started coming to grips with one of the ugliest chapters in the country’s history:
"I cannot believe it," he told the channel in Spanish. "You go through the process with so much anxiety that when it happens the news is a relief."
Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, CNN, Canadian Press, Wikipedia, IMDB, YouTube
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