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Maker of Argentina's first Oscar-winning film, Luis Puenzo, dies at 80:
His film “The Official Story” won Argentina’s first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and exposed abuses under the military dictatorship.
- Argentine director Luis Puenzo died on Tuesday at age 80, having directed The Official Story, which won Argentina's first Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.
- Born in Buenos Aires in 1946, Puenzo began his career in advertising before directing political cinema; he won his Oscar on March 24, the anniversary of Argentina's 1976 coup.
- Beyond directing Old Gringo and The Plague, Puenzo shaped Argentine audiovisual policy, helping draft the National Film Law in 1994 to establish industry funding structures and autonomy.
- The Sociedad General confirmed Puenzo's passing and extended condolences to his family and colleagues; his death followed by one day the loss of cultural figure Luis Brandoni.
- Puenzo served as president of the Instituto Nacional and Artes Audiovisuales from 2019 to 2022, founded Luis Puenzo Cine production company, and was a founding member of the Academia and Ciencias Cinematogr.
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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.
Luis Puenzo, director of Argentina’s first Oscar-winning feature, dies at 80
Luis Puenzo, director who won Argentina’s first Oscar, has died aged 80; 'La historia oficial,' which tackled kidnapping of infants during dictatorship era, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.
The news of the death of Luis Puenzo, director of the Argentine Oscar-winning film The Official History (1985), shocked the entertainment and political world. In that sense, recognized figures used their social networks to dedicate warm farewell messages to him. The Secretary of Culture of the Nation, Leonardo Cifelli, was one of the first to pronounce on his X account. “From the Secretariat of Culture of the Nation we regret the death of Luis P…
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