Argentina

=== Theatre and cinema ===
{{Main|Theatre in Argentina|Cinema of Argentina}}
[[File:Andrés Muschietti.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Andy Muschietti]], director of ''[[It (2017 film)|It]]'', the [[List of highest-grossing horror films|highest-grossing horror film of all-time]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/29/stephen-king-it-the-exorcist-highest-grossing-horror-film-ever|title=Stephen King's It scares off The Exorcist to become highest-grossing horror ever |last=Mumford |first=Gwilym |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=29 September 2017|access-date=5 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114000256/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/29/stephen-king-it-the-exorcist-highest-grossing-horror-film-ever|archive-date=14 November 2017|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/10/blade-runner-2049-it-movie-horror-record-despicable-me-3-kingsman-never-say-die-weekend-results-international-box-office-1202184382/ |access-date=8 October 2017 |last=Tartaglione |first=Nancy |date=8 October 2017 |title='Blade Runner 2049' Launches With $50M Overseas; 'It' Tops $600M WW; 'Despicable 3' Hops Past 'Zootopia' – Intl Box Office |website=Deadline |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008205909/http://deadline.com/2017/10/blade-runner-2049-it-movie-horror-record-despicable-me-3-kingsman-never-say-die-weekend-results-international-box-office-1202184382/ |archive-date=8 October 2017}}</ref>]]

Buenos Aires is one of the great theatre capitals of the world,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radarmagazine.com.au/en/?p=1558 |title=Buenos Aires – A Passionate City |work=Radar Magazine |date=10 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503182412/http://www.radarmagazine.com.au/en/?p=1558 |archive-date=3 May 2013 |url-status = dead}}</ref> with a scene of international caliber centered on [[Corrientes Avenue]], "the street that never sleeps", sometimes referred to as an intellectual [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] in Buenos Aires.{{sfn|Foster|Lockhart|Lockhart|1998|p=48}} [[Teatro Colón]] is a global landmark for [[opera]] and classical performances; its acoustics are considered among the world's top five.{{sfn|Long|2009|pp=21–25}}{{efn-ua|The other top venues being Berlin's [[Konzerthaus Berlin|Konzerthaus]], Vienna's [[Musikverein]], Amsterdam's [[Concertgebouw, Amsterdam|Concertgebouw]] and Boston's [[Symphony Hall, Boston|Symphony Hall]].{{sfn|Long|2009|pp=21–25}}}}

The Argentine film industry has historically been one of the three most developed in [[Latin American cinema]], along with those produced in [[Cinema of Mexico|Mexico]] and [[Cinema of Brazil|Brazil]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Carl J. |last=Mora|title=Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society|year=1989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOwdFIQiTv8C&pg=PA196|publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-04304-6|page=196}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Argentina – Cultura – Cine |date=16 October 2011 |language=es |url=http://www.argentina.ar/_es/cultura/cine/index.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216141530/http://www.argentina.ar/_es/cultura/cine/index.php |archive-date=16 December 2008}}</ref> Started in 1896; by the early 1930s it had already become Latin America's leading film producer, a place it kept until the early 1950s.{{sfn|King|2000|p=36}} The world's first [[list of animated feature films|animated feature films]] were made and released in Argentina, by cartoonist [[Quirino Cristiani]], in 1917 and 1918.<ref>{{cite web|first=Giannalberto|last=Bendazzi |url=http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.4/articles/bendazzi1.4.html|title=Quirino Cristiani, The Untold Story of Argentina's Pioneer Animator|publisher=Animation World Network|year=1996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928121624/http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.4/articles/bendazzi1.4.html |archive-date=28 September 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

Argentine films have achieved worldwide recognition: the country has won two [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|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 Award for Best Original Score|Academy Awards for Best Original Score]], and [[Armando Bó (screenwriter)|Armando Bó]] and [[Nicolás Giacobone]] shared in the [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay]] for 2014. Also, the [[French Argentine|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 (Cannes Film Festival)|Best Actress]] award in the [[Cannes Film Festival]] for her role in the film ''[[The Past (2013 film)|The Past]]''.<ref name="CannesAwards">{{cite web |url= http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/2013/awardCompetition.html |title= Cannes Film Festival: Awards 2013 |date= 26 May 2013 |access-date= 26 May 2013 |work= Cannes |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131017041240/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/2013/awardCompetition.html |archive-date= 17 October 2013 |url-status = live}}</ref> Argentina also has won seventeen [[Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film|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. {{As of|2013|alt=In 2013}} about 100 full-length motion pictures were being created annually.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.german-films.de/fileadmin/mediapool/pdf/Marktanalyse/MarketStudy_ARGENTINA_Aug2013.pdf|title=Market Study – Argentina|publisher=German Films|place=Munich, Germany|date=August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611142447/http://www.german-films.de/fileadmin/mediapool/pdf/Marktanalyse/MarketStudy_ARGENTINA_Aug2013.pdf|archive-date=11 June 2014|url-status = dead}}</ref>