Chile’s ‘A Fantastic Woman’ Hooks Nine Premios Platino Nominations

Guadalajara, Mexico — Four years after the inaugural Premios Platino, where he took home the best picture award with “Gloria,” Chile’s Sebastian Lelio may again snag some top prizes with nine Platino nominations for his foreign language Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman.” It’s the first Ibero-American film to win a coveted Oscar since the awards, celebrating the best of Ibero-American cinema – and since last year, television series – were launched in 2014.The Premios Platino nominations event was streamed live on Facebook from Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel where Premios Platino ambassador-CNN Español journalist Juan Carlos Arciniegas reminded the audience that they were at the site where the Oscars were first held 90 years ago.“A Fantastic Woman” is up against Argentine Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama” which nabbed eight noms, Fernando Perez’s “Last Days in Havana,” which scored seven, Santiago Mitre’s “The Summit” and Isabel Coixet’s “The Bookshop,” with four noms each.

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