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| Cinema of Argentina | |
|---|---|
 Iconic Argentine actresses in the 1961 Berlin International Film Festival: Isabel Sarli, Olga Zubarry, Tita Merello and Mirtha Legrand. | |
| No. of screens | 792 (2011)[1] |
| • Per capita | 2.2 per 100,000 (2011)[1] |
| Main distributors | United International Pictures 23.7% The Walt Disney Company 22.4% Warner Bros. 16.2%[2] |
| Produced feature films (2005–2009)[3] | |
| Total | 52 (average) |
| Number of admissions (2012)[4] | |
| Total | 46,386,856 |
| National films | 4,347,481 (9.4%) |
| Gross box office (2012)[4] | |
| Total | ARS 1.31 billion |
| National films | ARS 111 million (8.5%) |
Cinema of Argentina refers to the film industry based in Argentina. The Argentine cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Argentina or by Argentine filmmakers abroad.
The Argentine film industry has historically been one of the three most developed in Latin American cinema, along with those produced in Mexico and Brazil.[5][6] Throughout the 20th century, film production in Argentina, supported by the State and by the work of a long list of directors and actors, became one of the major film industries in the Spanish-speaking world.
Argentina has won eighteen Goya Awards for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film, which makes it the most awarded country. It is also the first Latin American country that has won Academy Awards, in recognition of the films The Official Story (1985) and The Secret in Their Eyes (2009).[7][8]
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- ^ "Average national film production". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
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