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Argentine films have achieved worldwide recognition: the country has won
two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, for The Official
Story (1985) and The Secret in Their Eyes (2009). In addition, Argentine
composers Luis Enrique Bacalov and Gustavo Santaolalla have been honored
with Academy Awards for Best Original Score, and Armando Bó and Nicolás
Giacobone shared in the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 2014.
Also, the Argentine French actress Bérénice Bejo received a nomination for
the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2011 and won the César
Award for Best Actress and won the Best Actress award in the Cannes Film
Festival for her role in the film The Past.[363] Argentina also has won
seventeen Goya Awards for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film, being by far
the most awarded country in Latin America with twenty-four nominations. Many
other Argentine films also have been acclaimed by international critique. In
2013 about 100 full-length motion pictures were being created annually.[364]
Visual arts and architecture

See also: Argentine painting and Architecture of Argentina
Las Nereidas Font by Lola Mora

Some of the best-known Argentine painters are Cándido López and Florencio
Molina Campos (Naïve style); Ernesto de la Cárcova and Eduardo
Sívori (Realism); Fernando Fader (Impressionism); Pío Collivadino, Atilio
Malinverno and Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós (Postimpressionism); Emilio
Pettoruti (Cubism); Julio Barragán (Concretism and Cubism) Antonio
Berni (Neofigurativism); Roberto Aizenberg and Xul Solar (Surrealism); Gyula
Košice (Constructivism); Eduardo Mac Entyre (Generative art); Luis
Seoane, Carlos Torrallardona, Luis Aquino, Alfredo Gramajo
Gutiérrez (Modernism); Lucio Fontana (Spatialism); Tomás
Maldonado, Guillermo Kuitca (Abstract art); León Ferrari, Marta
Minujín (Conceptual art); Gustavo Cabral (Fantasy art), and Fabián Pérez
(Neoemotionalism).[vague]
In 1946 Gyula Košice and others created The Madí Movement in Argentina,
which then spread to Europe and the United States, where it had a significant
impact.[365] Tomás Maldonado was one of the main theorists of the Ulm Model of
design education, still highly influential globally. Other Argentine artists of
worldwide fame include Adolfo Bellocq, whose lithographs have been influential
since the 1920s, and Benito Quinquela Martín, the quintessential port painter,
inspired by the immigrant-bound La Boca neighbourhood. Internationally
laureate sculptors Erminio Blotta, Lola Mora and Rogelio Yrurtia authored many
of the classical evocative monuments of the Argentine cityscape.[citation needed]
The colonization brought the Spanish Baroque architecture, which can still be
appreciated in its simpler Rioplatense style in the reduction of San Ignacio Miní,
the Cathedral of Córdoba, and the Cabildo of Luján. Italian and French
influences increased at the beginning of the 19th century with
strong eclectic overtones that gave the local architecture a unique feeling.[366]
Mass media
Main article: Communications in Argentina
Headquarters of the Channel 7, the first television

station in the country
The print media industry is highly developed in Argentina, with more than two
hundred newspapers. The major national ones include Clarín (centrist, Latin
America's best-seller and the second most widely circulated in the Spanish-
speaking world), La Nación (centre-right, published since
1870), Página/12 (leftist, founded in 1987), La Voz del Interior (centre, founded
in 1904),[367] and the Argentinisches Tageblatt (German weekly, liberal,
published since 1878).[368]
Argentina began the world's first regular radio broadcasting on 27 August 1920,
when Richard Wagner's Parsifal was aired by a team of medical students led
by Enrique Telémaco Susini in Buenos Aires' Teatro Coliseo.[369] By 2002 there
were 260 AM and 1150 FM registered radio stations in the country.[370]
The Argentine television industry is large, diverse and popular across Latin
America, with many productions and TV formats having been exported abroad.
Since 1999 Argentines enjoy the highest availability of cable and satellite
television in Latin America,[371] as of 2014 totaling 87.4% of the country's
households, a rate similar to those in the United States, Canada and Europe.[372]
By 2011 Argentina also had the highest coverage of networked

telecommunications among Latin American powers: about 67% of its population
had internet access and the ratio of mobile phone subscriptions to population
was 137.2%.[373][better source needed]
Cuisine
Main article: Argentine cuisine
Argentine beef as asado
Besides many of the pasta, sausage and dessert dishes common to continental
Europe, Argentines enjoy a wide variety of Indigenous and Criollo creations,
including empanadas (a small stuffed pastry), locro (a mixture of corn, beans,
meat, bacon, onion, and gourd), humita and mate.[374] In various localities of
Argentina, this dish is consumed as a beefmelt.
The country has the highest consumption of red meat in the

world,[375] traditionally prepared as asado, the Argentine barbecue. It is made
with various types of meats, often including chorizo, sweetbread, chitterlings,
and blood sausage.[376]
Common desserts include facturas (Viennese-

style pastry), cakes and pancakes filled with dulce de leche (a sort of
milk caramel jam), alfajores (shortbread cookies sandwiched together with
chocolate, dulce de leche or a fruit paste), and tortas fritas (fried cakes)[377]
Argentine wine, one of the world's finest,[378] is an integral part of the local
menu. Malbec, Torrontés, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Chardonnay are
some of the most sought-after varieties.[379]
Sport
Main article: Sport in Argentina
Footballer Lionel Messi, eight-time Ballon d'Or winner, is the

current captain of the Argentina national football team.
Pato is the national sport,[380] an ancient horseback game locally originated in the
early 1600s and predecessor of horseball.[381][382]
The most popular sport is football. Along with Brazil, Germany and France,
the men's national team is the only one to have won the most important
international triplet: World Cup, Confederations Cup, and the Olympic Gold
Medal. It has also won 15 Copas América, 7 Pan American Gold Medals and
many other trophies.[383] Alfredo Di Stéfano, Diego Maradona and Lionel
Messi are widely considered to be among the best players in the game's
history.[384]
The country's women's field hockey team Las Leonas, is one of the world's
most successful with four Olympic medals, two World Cups, a World
League and seven Champions Trophy.[385] Luciana Aymar is recognized as the
best female player in the history of the sport,[386] being the only player to have
received the FIH Player of the Year Award eight times.[387]
Basketball is a very popular sport. The men's national team is the only one in
the FIBA Americas zone that has won the quintuplet crown: World
Championship, Olympic Gold Medal, Diamond Ball, Americas Championship,
and Pan American Gold Medal. It has also conquered 13 South American
Championships, and many other tournaments.[388] Emanuel Ginóbili, Luis
Scola, Andrés Nocioni, Fabricio Oberto, Pablo Prigioni, Carlos Delfino and Juan
Ignacio Sánchez are a few of the country's most acclaimed players, all of them
part of the NBA.[385] Argentina hosted the Basketball World Cup in 1950 and
1990.

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Argentine films have achieved worldwide recognition: the country has won

Visual arts and architecture

Las Nereidas Font by Lola Mora

Headquarters of the Channel 7, the first television

By 2011 Argentina also had the highest coverage of networked

The country has the highest consumption of red meat in the

Common desserts include facturas (Viennese-

Footballer Lionel Messi, eight-time Ballon d'Or winner, is the

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