The institution is preparing a series of interviews with the actors, entitled ‘Seen’, which can be seen through the Oscars YouTube channel.
The hollywood academy, which delivers annually The Oscar Awards, premiered this Monday an interview program dedicated to latin cinema in which stars like Eva Longoria, John Leguizamo and Edward James Olmos They will review their careers.
The series of interviews, entitled Seen, will be directed by the Argentine-American filmmaker Nick Barili and can be seen through the channel of Academy YouTube The institution reported in a statement.
The first episode will visit the house of the Colombian John Leguizamo (uncle’s voice Bruno in the recent Disney movie, Charm) in New York and review the evolution of latinos in the American entertainment world, as well as the stereotypes that the actor had to face in his beginnings.
Later, the program will premiere other installments filmed in Los Angeles with Edward James Olmos (played Abraham Quintanilla in the movie Selena, along with JLo), who runs various educational initiatives in the city, and Eva Longoria (Desperate housewives), who completed a master’s degree in Chicano Studies at Northridge University in California.
On the other hand, the Academy confirmed last week that a total of 276 films compete to be nominated for the Oscar for the best film of the year, what it means the smallest record of the last 10 years due to the pandemic.
The official list of nominees will be known on February 8.
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One of the reasons that explains this significant decrease in the number of applicants is that the period of eligibility for this edition is only 10 months, since last year, when the gala was postponed to the end of April, the deadline was also extended to films released in January and February 2021.
The Oscars will be awarded on March 27. from the mythical Dolby Theatre de Hollywood with a ceremony that hopes to return to the traditional format after the hard months of the pandemic.
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