Adolfo Aristarain

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Adolfo Aristarain (born October 19, 1943 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director.

After leaving Argentina in the Aristarain started working as asistant director in the Arcente cinema, and then in Europe during his short exile for Mario Camus, Giorgio Stegani and Lewis Gilbert before returning to Argentina in 1974. His first 3 films did not receive a good critic, but in 1981 with Tiempo de revancha which was prised both by the critic and the audience.

Back to Spain he directed a mini-series for the television, and after a series of aborted projects he filmed in Argentina a new hit: Un Lugar en el Mundo. He then filmed La ley de la frontera and Martín (Hache) in Spain. Aristarain continued with his Argentine-Spanish mixture of actors in Lugares comunes and Roma.

Aristarain wrote all the scripts of his directed movies, except for the unreleased co-production with Columbia Pictures The Stranger. He refuses to release the film because he is not content with the result.

He received numerous awards for his work, including Golden Seashell and an Academy Award nomination for Un Lugar en el mundo, Best Director award at the Havana Film Festival, and Golden Seashell nomination for Martín (Hache), the First Price at the Havana Film Festival and the Grand Prix des Amériques award at the Montréal World Film Festival for Tiempo de revancha.

The Academy Award Nomination was withdraw' by the Academy of Motion Pictures because the film was submitted for consideration (for Best Foreign Movie) by Uruguay while The Academy claimed it was an Argentine production, and should therefore have been submitted by that country.