The list opens with the Cuban-American Ana de Armaswho was nominated for her highly praised performance as Marilyn Monroe in the biopic Blonde (Blonde), may become the first Latina to win an Academy Award for Best Actress.
It turns out to be the fifth Latin American to be nominated for that statuette in the 95-year history of the contest, although it has a difficult competition, with the great favorites such as: Cate Blanchett, for tarand Michelle Yeoh, who with Everything everywhere at the same timewho also has chances to be the first Asian to lift the Oscar.
In this edition, a bet of Latin American cinema returns to dispute the Best International Film, after a few years of absence, with Argentina, 1985an exhibition of the trial of the military juntas after the dictatorship that controlled the country between 1976 and 1983.
Directed by Santiago Mitre, and starring Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzanithe tape can grant the third statuette to Argentina, who was nominated on several occasions and won in 1986 and 2010 with productions that also speak of the years of military terror.
Argentina, 1985 competes, among others, with No news at the frontNetflix’s German-language film based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, one of the great favorites of the night with nine nominations.
Guillermo del Toro, a Mexican director from Guadalajara, who has already won the Oscar twice, could well add to his list of winners.
pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro has a nomination for Best Animated Film, a category that in its last edition Charm It was triumphant, a Disney production that put the magical realism of Colombia on the big screen.
For the statuette also competes Puss in Boots: The Last Wishwhere the voices of Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek.
Alfonso Cuarón, the Mexican already has four statuettes for Rome and Gravitycompetes this year for the Best Acted Short Film with I pupiled himin which he appears as a producer.
It is Cuarón’s 11th Oscar nomination, which due to his versatility has led him to compete in seven categories.
On the other hand, the introspective and personal Bardby the multi-Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu, did not result in nominations for the Mexican work in the main categories, although he managed to enter the competition for Best Cinematography with the nomination of the Iranian-French Darius Khondji.
Another Latin-influenced moment at Sunday’s gala will be the presentation of Sofia Carson, the young artist of Colombian descent who will perform “Applause” alongside Diane Warren, nominated for best song for the film. Tell It Like a Woman.
(With information from AFP)