Latinos In Hollywood, Oscar

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

This year could be the turning point for Latinos in Hollywood; specifically at the prestigious Oscar Awards.

An article in The New York Times presents how in the past 20 years only three Latino actors obtained the prestigious statuette. They are the Puerto Rican Benicio del Toro (2001) and the Spaniards Javier Bardem (2008) and his wife, Penélope Cruz (2009). However, this could be the beginning of a new pro-Latino movement that is spreading, from the most prestigious awards such as the Oscar to achieving a greater number of film stories whose plot and protagonists are Hispanic.

The New York Times states that after the criticism received by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences on social networks, for being prizes that have been branded as #Oscardemasiadoblancos (#OscarsSoWhite), between 2017 and 2018 there were six actors African Americans nominated for the award.

However, as The New York Times explains, Latinos are "that minority group that Hollywood excludes from its proposals on stage." However, Latinos are trying to create a solid movement. As the saying would say, to take the bull by the horns. Inclusive, Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition explained that they hope to be able to grow to be able to demonstrate this year at the awards. "We have tried to exert pressure in less hostile ways. But these studies [producing houses] don't seem to understand anything else.”

An interesting fact presented in the note is that Latinos make up 18 percent of the population of the United States, and we are 23 percent of those who regularly go to see movies at movie sauces. Unfortunately, however, only three percent of the characters - over the past decade - are Latino, says Stacy L. Smith in a study she did at the University of Southern California. The figures should improve. At least, Mexican director Guillermo del Toro is nominated this year for Best Director for the movie The Shape of Water. Additionally, Disney's Coco film received two nominations, Best Animated Film and Best Song.