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Success brings bad blood for Babel team
11:28 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Movies| mexico · Comments Off
27 Feb 2007
One would think that the success at the Oscars — at least in the nomination department and overall buzz — would bring the Mexican creators of Babel together to celebrate their triumph. But in fact, just the opposite has happened. Babel’s director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and its screenwriter, Guillermo Arriaga are now estranged, according to comments made yesterday by González Iñárritu, as reports various media outlets:
The director of Babel, Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu, severely criticized his countryman Guillermo Arriaga, screenwriter, for attempting to “claim” for himself credit for the entire film. Yesterday a letter from Iñárritu to Arriaga was circulated (to be published in the Mexican magazine Chilango in its next issue) in which the director says that it is “sad” that because of an “unjustified obsession with claiming credit for the entire film”, the screenwriter seems to “not know that filmmaking is an art of profound collaboration.”
Latino Golden Globe Wins, Losses
11:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events| Movies| TV · 1 Comment
16 Jan 2007
Latinos were in the house at this year’s Golden Globes. With the sweep of two important categories by ABC’s Ugly Betty, we had something to celebrate, but the tail end of the show brought triumphs and losses.
The big win: the last award of the night, Best Film Drama, went to Mexico’s Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel:
“I swear I have my papers in order, governor, I swear,” “Babel” director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu of Mexico joked after California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger presented the best drama prize for the sweeping ensemble drama that takes place on three continents.
And while here at VL we frequently entertain the debate of whether we should consider people, things, issues, animals, etc. from Spain applicable to this site (yes, we know Spaniards are not Latinos), Mala and I are huge Almodóvar fans so we were rooting for Volver. Unfortunately, our movie lost. Boo-hoo. I wonder if Pedro knew and that’s why he said he had cold and skipped the awards all together?
Also, our beloved Penelope lost the Best Actress award, also for Volver. Hopefully Salma stuck around to keep her company without rubbing her nose in it.
Still, some Hollywood experts still have Pe pegged for a Best Actress nod at the Oscars.
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