US EditionMaker of Argentina's first Oscar-winning film, Luis Puenzo, dies at 80:
His film La historia oficial won Argentina’s first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and examined child appropriation under the military dictatorship.
- Argentine director Luis Puenzo, who won the country's first Oscar with the dictatorship-tackling feature 'The Official Story,' died on Tuesday in Buenos Aires at age 80.
- The 1985 drama, depicting the adoption of children snatched during Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, with Puenzo dedicating the win to victims of the 1976 coup.
- Beyond his Oscar success, Puenzo directed 'Old Gringo' starring Jane Fonda and Gregory Peck, and 'The Plague' based on Albert Camus' novel. He began his career in advertising during the 1960s.
- Puenzo played an active role in shaping Argentina's audiovisual policy, drafting the National Film Law that established the funding structure for the Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales.
- A founding member of the Academia in 2004, Puenzo also served as president of the INCAA. Industry organizations bid 'deep sorrow' to the director.
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Buenos Aires. Argentine filmmaker Luis Puenzo, director of The Official History, the first film in his country awarded an Oscar, died at the age of 80, reported Tuesday the General Society of Authors.
A multi-rewarded and emblematic figure of Argentine cinema, Luis Puenzo has long worked to develop the film industry in his country.
Argentine director, screenwriter and producer Luis Puenzo, winner of the first Oscar in the history of Argentine cinema by La historia oficial (1985), died on Tuesday, April 21, at the age of 80 in the city of Buenos Aires, as confirmed by the Sociedad General de Autores de Argentina (Argentores).
Argentine filmmaker dies in Buenos Aires at the age of 80
In addition to his prolific career as a director and screenwriter, Luiz Puenzo was also one of the promoters of the Film Act adopted in 1994, which strongly stimulated the development of the film industry in Argentina.
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