Yolanda Díaz goes to the Oscars to help Oliver Laxe | Oscar Awards | Cinema | EUROtoday

Yolanda Díaz will attend the Oscar ceremony this Sunday to accompany filmmaker Oliver Laxe, nominated in two classes for Sirât. The second vice chairman and Minister of Labor and Social Economy will first meet with the Spanish delegation and a number of other nominees for the awards.

Sirâtby Laxe, is nominated within the classes of finest international movie and finest sound, on this case for Laia Casanovas, Yasmina Praderas and Amanda Villavieja, the primary feminine group within the 98-year historical past of the awards to attain a nomination on this part. Promotion of the movie has been intense. Laxe, 43, began with the help of Movistar Plus+; Later, Cannes was an enormous increase, and within the United States the distributor Neon opted for his movie. The firm has 4 of the 5 nominees for finest worldwide movie in its portfolio: along with Sirâtadditionally Valor Sentimental y The undercover agent (tied as favorites within the class by which the Spanish movie competes) and the Iranian A easy accidente.

Díaz, his group confirms, will accompany the Galician filmmaker together with a delegation from the Xunta de Galicia. It shouldn’t be the primary time {that a} Spanish politician attends the gala, though the presence of Government representatives is phenomenal. In 1999, Mariano Rajoy, then Minister of Culture, flew to Los Angeles to help José Luis Garci’s group, nominated for the movie El Abuelo, within the class of finest international movie.

The 98th version of the awards will likely be introduced by comic Conan O’Brien for the second consecutive yr and is being ready amid tight safety measures as a result of battle in Iran that’s already spreading all through the area. This week, data from the FBI warning of attainable drone assaults on California in retaliation for the battle was leaked to the native press. In a gathering with the media to speak in regards to the gala and its construction, the chief producers of the published spoke in regards to the matter, explaining that security got here first they usually had assist from the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department: “This event has to run like clockwork. But we want everyone who comes, everyone who sees it live, even the fans outside the fences, to feel safe, protected and welcomed, so it’s our job as a production team to make sure that’s a reality.”

As the newspaper has instructed Los Angeles Timessafety has been bolstered with extra invisible measures, FBI brokers and even air management, together with attainable radiation.