List of Puerto Rican Academy Award winners and nominees

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This is a list of Puerto Rican Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of Puerto Rican filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been nominated for or have won an Academy Award.

Acting categories[]

José Ferrer was the first Puerto Rican-born, first Latino and Hispanic person to be nominated for and win an Oscar, receiving a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Joan of Arc (1948) and winning Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950).

Rita Moreno was the first Latina to be nominated for and win an Oscar, winning Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story (1961).

Benicio del Toro won once from two nominations for Best Supporting Actor, winning for Traffic (2000) and becoming the first actor to win for a Spanish-speaking role.

Best Actor[]

Best Supporting Actor[]

Best Supporting Actress[]

Writing categories[]

Best Adapted Screenplay[]

José Rivera was the first Puerto Rican-born screenwriter to be nominated for an Oscar, receiving a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for Diarios de Motocicleta (2004).

Best Foreign Language Film[]

Puerto Rico has submitted films for the Foreign Film category since 1985. However, as of 2007, only one film has been nominated. This happened in 1990 when Lo que le Pasó a Santiago (from Jacobo Morales) was nominated. The film lost to Italy's Cinema Paradiso.

In October 2011, awards coordinator Torene Svitil announced that Puerto Rico will no longer be eligible for submissions in the Foreign Language Film category.^[1]

Films that have been submitted for consideration are:

References[]

See also[]

• Cinema of Puerto Rico
• List of Puerto Ricans
• History of women in Puerto Rico