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LEONOR WAS BORN ON JULY 24, 917 IN HOLO,SULU HER PARENTS WERE SIXTO OROSA AND SEVERINA LUNA, BOTH PHYSICIANS WHO GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

LEONOR IS A FILIPINO NATIONAL ARTIST IS CREATIVE DANCE, WHO WAS ALSO KNOWN FOR BREAKING TRADITION WITHIN DANCE. SHE PLAYED PIANO, DREW ART, DESIGNED SCENERY AND COSTUMES, SCULPTED, ACTED, DIRECTED, DANCED AND CHOREOGRAPHED.

IN 1939, LEONOR WAS THE ONLY DANCER SENT ON THE FIRST CULTURAL MISSION TO JAPAN, AT THE AGE OF 19. SHE PRODUCED “CIRCLING THE GLOBE” AND ‘DANCE PANORAMA’ IN THE SAME YEAR.

HERE ARE THE LIST OF HER AWARDS;

PATNUBAY NG SINIG AT KALINANGAN AWARD ALAIZA GWAPA IN 1969 & 1964

RIZAL CENTENNIAL AWARD IN 1962

REPUBLIC CENTENNIAL AWARD

PRESIDENTIAL AWARD OF MERIT

TANDANG SORA AWARD

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

NATIONAL ARTIST FOR DANCE ON MARCH 1976

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C A B R E R A

BENCAB WAS BORN TO DEMOCRITO CABRERA AND ISABEL REYES IN MALABON, PHILIPPINES ON APRIL 10, 1942. HE WAS THE YOUNGEST OF NINE CHILDREN. BENCAB'S FIRST EXPOSURE AND DISCOVERY OF THE ARTS HAPPENED THROUGH HIS ELDER BROTHER SALVADOR, WHO WAS ALREADY AN ESTABLISHED ARTIST DURING BENCAB'S CHILDHOOD. HE WENT ON TO STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES DILIMAN. HE RECEIVED HIS BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN FINE ARTS IN 1963.

BENEDICTO CABRERA TOOK ON THE NAME “BENCAB” EVEN BEFORE THE CULTURAL CENTRE OF THE PHILIPPINES LISTED HIM AMONG THE THIRTEEN ARTISTS AWARDEES IN 1970. SO, THIS IS THE NAME HE HAS BEEN KNOWN BY ACROSS ASIA, EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA, AND EQUALLY KNOWN AS AN ILLUSTRATOR, PAINTER, PORTRAIT ARTIST, PHOTOGRAPHER AND PRINTMAKER.

PERHAPS THE MOST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL OF HIS GENERATION OF ARTISTS, BENCAB HAS ESTABLISHED AN INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION, EARNED SEVERAL MAJOR ART AWARDS AND EXHIBITED AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING IN LONDON, NEW YORK AND MACAU. BENCAB RETURNED TO THE PHILIPPINES IN 1985 AFTER SPENDING OVER A DECADE IN LONDON, SETTLING NEAR BAGUIO CITY IN NORTHERN LUZON.

WITH VISUAL ARTIST SANTIAGO BOSE, FILMMAKER KIDLAT

TAHIMIK AND SCULPTOR BEN HUR VILLANUEVA, BENCAB FOUNDED THE FABLED BAGUIO ARTS GUILD IN THE LATE ‘80S. AWARDS 1992

GAWAD CCP PARA SA SINING

(PHILIPPINES) 2006 NATIONAL ARTIST FOR VISUAL ARTS

(PHILIPPINES) 2006 MOST CREATIVE FORCE (PHILIPPINE

TATLER BALL)

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RONALD ALLAN K. POE, POPULARLY KNOWN AS FERNANDO POE, JR. HE WAS A CULTURAL ICON OF TREMENDOUS AUDIENCE IMPACT AND A CINEMA ARTIST AND CRAFTSMAN AS ACTOR, DIRECTOR, WRITER, AND PRODUCER. HE WAS BORN IN MANILA ON AUGUST 20, 1939. AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, HE DROPPED OUT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE EAST IN HIS SOPHOMORE YEAR TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY.

HE WAS THE SECOND OF SIX SIBLINGS. HE MARRIED THE ACTRESS SUSAN ROCES IN A CIVIL CEREMONY IN DECEMBER 1968. HE DIED ON DECEMBER 14, 2004.

HE WAS DUBBED AS THE KING OF PHILIPPINE MOVIES AND WAS NAMED A NATIONAL ARTIST IN 2006 - TWO YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH. IN HIS MORE THAN 40 YEARS IN THE FILM AND TELEVISION INDUSTRY, HE STARRED IN OVER 300 MOVIES. HE WAS INCLUDED IN FIVE FAMAS AWARDS FOR BEST ACTOR A JOINT RECORD THAT INDUCTED HIM INTO THE FAMAS HALL OF FAME IN 1988.

FERNANDO ALSO WON BEST DIRECTOR FOR HIS FILMS ANG PADRINO (1984) AND KAHIT BUTAS NG KARAYOM, PAPASUKIN KO (1995). IN 2004, FAMAS POSTHUMOUSLY GRANTED HIM THE NATATANGING ALAGAD NG SINING AWARD.

“MAY MY HUMILITY, CONCERN FOR OTHERS, AND LOVE FOR THE ARTS ARE AN INSPIRATION TO EVERYONE WHO WILL PASS THROUGH THIS AVENUE.”

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PELAGIA MENDOZA Y GOTIANQUIN |1867-1939 PELAGIA

MENDOZA BORN IN THE PATEROS DISTRICT OF MANILA, PELAGIA MENDOZA WAS THE FIRST FEMALE SCULPTOR IN THE PHILIPPINES AND WAS THE FIRST FEMALE STUDENT AT THE ESCUELA DE DIBUJO Y PINTURA (DRAWING AND PAINTING SCHOOL), AND HER FIELD OF ARTWORK IS LANDSCAPE. PELAGIA MENDOZA Y GOTIANQUIN WAS BORN ON JUNE 9, 1867 IN PATEROS, RIZAL. HER PARENTS WERE VENANCIO MENDOZA AND EVARISTA GOTIANQUIN. SHE WAS THE SECOND CHILD IN A FAMILY OF FIVE CHILDREN

PELAGIA DISPLAYED AN INTEREST IN ART SINCE SHE WAS A CHILD. ACCORDING TO GREGORIO ZAIDE IN GREAT FILIPINOS IN HISTORY: AN EPIC OF FILIPINO GREATNESS IN WAR AND PEACE, “SINCE EARLY CHILDHOOD, SHE MANIFESTED A REMARKABLE TALENT FOR ART. WHEN SHE WAS YET A LITTLE GIRL SHE LOVED TO SKETCH BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES, TO EMBROIDER EXQUISITE DESIGNS ON HANDKERCHIEFS, AND MODEL CLAY FIGURINES PEOPLE, ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FLOWERS”.

SHE WAS 22 WHEN SHE ENROLLED IN ART SCHOOL AND BY 1892, SHE RECEIVED HER DIPLOMA IN PAINTING. BEFORE COMPLETING HER DIPLOMA IN SCULPTURE IN 1898, MENDOZA WON HER FIRST PRIZE IN THE COLUMBUS

QUADRICENTENNIAL ART CONTEST FOR HER WAX BUST OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IN 1892. SHE ALSO WON A SECOND PRIZE AT THE 1893 WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.

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V E R A A V A L L A N A

LAMBERTO VERA AVELLANA FEBRUARY 12, 1915 TIL APRIL 25, 1991 WAS A PROMINENT FILIPINO FILM AND STAGE DIRECTOR. DESPITE CONSIDERABLE BUDGETARY LIMITATIONS THAT HAMPERED THE POST-WAR FILIPINO FILM INDUSTRY, AVELLANA'S FILMS SUCH AS ANAK DALITA AND BADJAO ATTAINED INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM.

IN 1976, AVELLANA WAS NAMED BY PRESIDENT FERDINAND MARCOS AS THE FIRST NATIONAL ARTIST OF THE PHILIPPINES FOR FILM. WHILE AVELLANA REMAINS AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN FILIPINO CINEMA, HIS REPUTATION AS A FILM DIRECTOR HAS SINCE BEEN ECLIPSED BY THE NEXT WAVE OF FILIPINO FILM DIRECTORS WHO EMERGED IN THE 1970S, SUCH AS LINO BROCKA AND ISHMAEL BERNAL.

BORN IN BONTOC, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, AVELLANA WAS EDUCATED AT THE ATENEO DE MANILA AB '37, WHERE HE DEVELOPED WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE A LIFELONG INTEREST IN THE THEATER. HE TAUGHT AT THE ATENEO AFTER GRADUATION AND MARRIED HIS TEENAGE SWEETHEART DAISY HONTIVEROS, AN ACTRESS WHO EVENTUALLY ALSO BECAME A NATIONAL ARTIST IN 1999.

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NORA CABALTERA VILLAMAYOR (BORN MAY 21, 1953),[1]

POPULARLY KNOWN AS NORA AUNOR (TAGALOG PRONUNCIATION. IS A FILIPINO ACTRESS, RECORDING ARTIST, AND FILM PRODUCER. AUNOR HAS ALSO APPEARED IN SEVERAL STAGE PLAYS, TELEVISION SHOWS AND CONCERTS. SHE IS KNOWN AS PHILIPPINE CINEMA'S "SUPERSTAR" AND WAS CONFERRED AS A NATIONAL ARTIST OF THE PHILIPPINES FOR FILM AND BROADCAST ARTS IN 2022.[2] THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER CALLED HER "THE GRAND DAME OF PHILIPPINE CINEMA" FOR HER PERFORMANCES IN THE MOVIES TAKLUB (TRAP) AND HUSTISYA (JUSTICE), AND FOR HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PHILIPPINE FILM INDUSTRY

AUNOR STARTED HER CAREER AS A SINGER, AFTER WINNING A LOCAL TALENT SEARCH. SHE ROSE TO FAME IN THE FOLLOWING YEARS AS BOTH A SINGER AND ACTRESS. AFTER HER FILM DEBUT ALL OVER THE WORLD (1967), SHE TRANSITIONED INTO HEAVY DRAMA WITH HIGHLY ACCLAIMED PERFORMANCES IN FILMS SUCH AS TATLONG TAONG WALANG DIYOS (THREE YEARS WITHOUT GOD) (1976), MINSA'Y ISANG GAMU-GAMO (ONCE A MOTH) (1976), INA KA NG ANAK MO (YOU ARE THE MOTHER OF YOUR DAUGHTER) (1979), HIMALA (MIRACLE) (1982), BULAKLAK SA CITY JAIL (FLOWERS OF THE CITY JAIL) (1984), AND BONA (1980). IN THE FOLLOWING DECADES, HER PERFORMANCES IN THE FLOR CONTEMPLACION STORY (1995), BAKIT MAY KAHAPON PA? (1996), THY WOMB (2012), AND DEMENTIA (2014) GAVE HER FURTHER INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION AND NUMEROUS INTERNATIONAL AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS.[

FOR HER WORK, AUNOR RECEIVED 17 FAMAS AWARD NOMINATIONS AND IS A "HALL OF FAME" INDUCTEE, WINNING FIVE BEST ACTRESS AWARDS. SHE IS THE MOST NOMINATED ACTRESS IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAWAD URIAN AWARDS WITH 21 NOMINATIONS, WINNING SEVEN, AND THE ONLY PERFORMER TO BE CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST ACTORS AND ACTRESSES OF THE DECADE IN THREE DIFFERENT DECADES (1980S, 1990S, AND 2010S) BY THE SAME AWARDS BODY. SHE HAS WON EIGHT TROPHIES FROM PMPC STAR AWARDS FOR HER WORK IN FILM AND TELEVISION, AS WELL AS EIGHT METRO MANILA FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS, FOUR LUNA AWARDS, FIVE YOUNG CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS, A CAIRO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AWARD, AN ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARD, AN ASIAN FILM AWARD, AMONG OTHERS.

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AWARDEES NATIONAL ARTISTS

THE ORDER OF NATIONAL ARTISTS OF THE PHILIPPINES (TAGALOG: ORDEN NG MGA

PAMBANSANG ALAGAD NG SINING NG PILIPINAS) IS AN ORDER BESTOWED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES ON PHILIPPINE NATIONALS WHO HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHILIPPINE ART. MEMBERS OF THE ORDER ARE KNOWN AS NATIONAL ARTISTS ORIGINALLY INSTITUTED AS AN AWARD, IT WAS ELEVATED TO THE STATUS OF AN ORDER IN 2003.

THE ORDER IS ADMINISTERED BY THE CULTURAL CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES BY VIRTUE OF PRESIDENT FERDINAND MARCOS'S PROCLAMATION № 1001 OF APRIL 2, 1972, AND THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR CULTURE AND THE ARTS THE FIRST AWARD WAS POSTHUMOUSLY CONFERRED ON FILIPINO PAINTER FERNANDO AMORSOLO.