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LATINX IN FILM
THE LACK OF LATINX RECOGNITION IN AWARD SHOWS BY: MARYSSA ORTA Anyone who keeps up with film news, award shows, and media updates would be familiar with #oscarssowhite. This tag explains how the Oscars has primarily nominated awards for Caucasian male filmmakers more often than any other race group. Every February, the tag trends widely on platforms of social media (Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and more). #Oscarssowhite actually started about five years ago, yet every year the issue is circulated on the mainstream currents. However, some progress is being made, especially for Latinxs. In 2019, Roma featured Yalitza Aparicio, the first indigenous Mexican to be nominated for Best Actress. They also had 10 nominations and took home 3 Oscars (Another win for Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón). As evidenced by the quote above, many Europeans Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse, an animated movie with an Afro-Latino lead won best animated film that year. There was the 2018 Oscars when Mexican born Guillermo Del Toro took home 4 Oscars (including best director and best picture) for The Shape of Water, Coco, won best animated movie, and Chile's A Fantastic Woman was named best foreign language film. Film star --Daniela Vega became the first openly transgender woman to present at the ceremony. Yet, it isn’t enough. The last time a Latin American actor, Demián Bichir for A Better Life, was nominated for best actor was in 2012. The only Latino man to win this award was José Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac, a film that came out in 1950.
