On Wednesday night time the director of Saturday Night time accepted an award for his movie from Argentina’s Mar del Plata Worldwide Movie Competition, on a really special occasion for the South American nation.
Jason Reitman obtained the Astor Piazzolla Award for Greatest Screenplay for his dramedy in regards to the launch of the very first broadcast of Saturday Night time Stay in October 1975. Reitman directed the movie and wrote it with Gil Kenan, a co-recipient of the award. Reitman attended the 39th version of Mar del Plata final November however had departed the coastal Argentinian metropolis by the point the awards had been introduced.
The presentation of the screenplay award was made on the Argentinian consul normal’s residence in Los Angeles, with the Mar del Plata pageant’s co-artistic director Gabriel Lerman available, in addition to filmmaker Fede Álvarez [Alien: Romulus], who did the formal honors.
Director Fede Álvarez (at mic) presents a screenwriting award to Jason Reitman. At left is Gabriel Lerman, co-artistic director of the Mar del Plata Worldwide Movie Competition.
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“I’m honored to be right here with one of many few males on this enterprise who has higher hair than me,” Reitman joked, acknowledging Álvarez’s spectacular chevelure. “And [he’s] a greater shooter.”
“Fede, what number of nominations did Alien [Romulus] get?” Reitman requested his fellow filmmaker.
“I misplaced depend,” Álvarez replied. “You lose depend.”
“Two? Is it three?” Reitman continued.
“Oscars?” stated Alvarez. “It was one.”
“It was one?” Reitman stated, joking, “It was yet another than Saturday Night time obtained.”
The reception and awards presentation coincided with Argentina’s Independence Day, marking the 209th anniversary of the nation’s separation from Spain.
“That is an unimaginable honor,” Reitman instructed the assembled crowd together with Consul Normal Héctor María Monacci, the consul’s spouse and leisure trade notables. “And most significantly, comfortable Independence Day.”
José Fioravanti’s sea lion sculpture in entrance of the promenade of Central On line casino of Mar del Plata on March 28, 2020.
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Along with serving as creative director of the Mar del Plata Worldwide Movie Competition together with Jorge Stamadianos, Lerman is a journalist writing for publications in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and different components of Latin America. He has been a voter for the Golden Globes since 2004, presently serving on the board of administrators for the successor voting group to the HFPA.
“Gabriel and I’ve recognized one another a very long time, and it is a metropolis that brings individuals — Los Angeles — individuals gravitate right here. Some individuals gravitate simply because they need to be round fame, however some individuals come right here as a result of they love motion pictures,” Reitman famous. “And Gabriel got here right here as a result of he loves motion pictures. And once you meet one other one that loves cinema as a lot as you do, you instantly really feel such as you’ve discovered somebody that you just’ve been looking for since highschool.”
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Referencing his look on the 39th version of Mar del Plata, Reitman stated, “I used to be there with a movie known as Saturday Night time, which is in regards to the opening night time of Saturday Night time Stay, which is a couple of group of younger individuals who got here collectively to placed on a present that had by no means been accomplished earlier than. And once I obtained to Mar del Plata, what I discovered was a bunch of younger filmmakers who felt precisely the identical they usually had been children, they usually beloved cinema. And after the flicks, they’d take me out to this bowling alley, they usually obtained actually drunk. After which they’d speak about motion pictures till the solar got here up. And it jogged my memory of precisely the kind of neighborhood I used to be searching for once I was a child.”
“It was my first time in Argentina,” Reitman commented. “I fell in love together with your nation. I can not wait to return. And I had essentially the most unimaginable expertise down there.”
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The 40th anniversary version of Mar del Plata will happen from Nov. 6-16. Whether or not he’s there for the 40th or it takes Reitman just a few extra years to return to the pageant, you’ll be able to count on to see him with Sharpie in hand. That pertains to an anecdote he shared from his expertise final yr.
“One morning I get a textual content message from Gabriel and he says, ‘They need you to place your title in concrete right here.’ I stated, ‘What?’ And he goes, ‘Yeah, it’s just like the Mann Chinese language. You’re going to put in writing your title within the floor.’ And I simply thought, are you certain they need me?” ‘Yeah, they need you to do it.’ Now, I’ve by no means accomplished this earlier than,” Reitman recounted. “If you’re writing it, it’s means more durable than you’d assume. And I’ve no observe at this, however that is going to be everlasting. It’s within the floor. Are you aware once you’re writing a birthday card and also you begin writing letters, however they’re too massive? And also you begin to understand that you just don’t have sufficient area to put in writing all of the letters. So on account of this, I wished to put in writing ‘Jason Reitman,’ however I ran out of area. So, it simply says, ‘Jason’ — that’s it. There are handprints. After which simply ‘Jason.’ So when you don’t comprehend it’s me, there’s no means on earth to know who signed it.”
He concluded, “So perhaps in the future I’ll come again with a Sharpie, and I’ll fill in the remainder of it.”
