Nine Queens: Argentine Film

Nueve Reinas

Two grifters - boyish, likable Juan and hard-edged, scheming Marcos - meet by chance. Marcos, who seems to have cheated everyone he knows including his siblings, is missing his partner, so he offers to teach Juan tricks for a day. Juan accepts because he has some savings, but needs more to bribe a judge to release his father from prison. Marcos gets a call from an aging, ill ex-associate needing help to sell a forged set of rare stamps, the Nine Queens, to a businessman about to be deported (he can't take cash out of Argentina, but could take the stamps). When the con men have to improvise, Marcos asks Juan to use his savings to set up the deal. Is Juan about to be conned?

Stars: Gastón Pauls and Ricardo Darín

21 International Awards

AFI Fest
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2001 Nominated Grand Jury Prize
Fabián Bielinsky

Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2001 Won Silver Condor Best Actor (Mejor Actor)
Ricardo Darín

Best Cinematography (Mejor Fotografía)
Marcelo Camorino

Best Director (Mejor Director)
Fabián Bielinsky

Best Editing (Mejor Montaje)
Sergio Zottola

Best Film (Mejor Película)

Best Screenplay, Original (Mejor Guión Original)
Fabián Bielinsky

Best Supporting Actress (Mejor Actriz de Reparto)
Elsa Berenguer

Nominated Silver Condor Best Art Direction (Mejor Dirección Artística)
Marcelo Salvioli

Best First Film (Mejor Ópera Prima)
Fabián Bielinsky

Best Music (Mejor Música)
César Lerner

Biarritz International Festival of Latin American Cinema
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2001 Won Best Actor
Ricardo Darín
Tied with Gastón Pauls for Nueve reinas (2000)

Gastón Pauls
Tied with Ricardo Darín for Nueve reinas (2000)

Bogota Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2001 Won Audience Award
Fabián Bielinsky

Golden Precolumbian Circle Best Director
Fabián Bielinsky

Nominated Golden Precolumbian Circle Best Film
Fabián Bielinsky

British Independent Film Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2002 Nominated British Independent Film Award Best Foreign Film - Foreign Language

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2002 Nominated Cinema Brazil Grand Prize Best Foreign Language Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro)
Argentina

Cognac Festival du Film Policier
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2002 Won Audience Award
Fabián Bielinsky

Grand Prix
Fabián Bielinsky

Fantasporto
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2002 Won Directors' Week Award Best Screenplay
Fabián Bielinsky

Lima Latin American Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2001 Won Elcine First Prize
Fabián Bielinsky

Lleida Latin-American Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2001 Won Audience Award
Fabián Bielinsky

Best Director
Fabián Bielinsky

MTV Movie Awards, Latin America
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2001 Won MTV Movie Award MTV South Feed (mostly Argentina) - Favorite Film (Película de la Gente)
Fabián Bielinsky

Oslo Films from the South Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2001 Won Audience Award
Fabián Bielinsky

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2003 Nominated PFCS Award Best Foreign Film

Portland International Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2002 Won Audience Award Best First Film
Fabián Bielinsky
Tied with The Bank (2001).

Sant Jordi Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2002 Won Sant Jordi Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)
Ricardo Darín
Also for Fuga, La (2001) and Hijo de la novia, El (2001)

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