By: Catalina Pérez de Armiñán On November 3rd, 2021, Encanto premiered at El Capital theater in Los Angeles. The computer-animated musical comedy follows a multigenerational Colombian family, the Madrigals, whose children and grandchildren—except for Mirabel Madrigal —receive magical gifts from a miracle that helps them serve the people in their rural community called the…
Month: April 2022
West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose Makes Oscar History
One after another, Ariana DeBose is marking historical wins in film awards through her breakthrough performance as Anita in West Side Story. Following her win at the SAG Awards as best supporting actress, she also snagged another Best Supporting Actress Award at the Oscars on Sunday. Along with a background in years of performing on…
Kristen Stewart Wins the Award for Best Short(s) at the Oscars
Kristen Stewart received her first Academy Award nomination this year for her role as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s, Spencer. Not only was this Stewart’s first Oscars nomination but she also became one of the first queer actors to be nominated for a major category since Ian McKellen’s nomination for Lord of The Rings in…
CODA’s Troy Kotsur Makes History at This Year’s Academy Awards
Troy Kotsur first made people cry when they watched CODA at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. This week he made us cry when he was the first deaf actor to receive an Oscar. When the film was first released, it was seen as the underdog in almost all categories. Its release date placed it in…