'Fantastic Woman' director Sebastian Lelio dies aged 52

Chilean film director and Oscar winner Sebastian Lelio has died at the age of 52, TVN reported.

International fame Lelio brought such films as “Gloria” and “Fantastic Woman”. It was the latter film that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2018, becoming the second Chilean film to be awarded an Academy Award (after the animated short Story of the Bear in 2016). A Fantastic Woman was also voted Best Ibero-American Film at the 32nd Goya Awards.

Sebastian Lelio was born in Mendoza, Argentina, but at the age of two he moved to Viña del Mar, Chile. Initially, he entered the Faculty of Journalism, but eventually chose filmmaking at ARCIS University, where he began to build a career as a director of short films, feature films and music videos.