List of Puerto Rican Academy Award winners and nominees

This article is about Puerto Rican-born people, not people of Puerto Rican descent (i.e., Nuyoricans). For people of Puerto Rican descent, see List of Hispanic Academy Award winners and nominees.

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 Latin 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 Hispanic Puerto Rican of Spanish descent 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

Academy Award for Best Actor
Year	Nominee	Film	Status	Notes
1950 (23rd)	José Ferrer	Cyrano de Bergerac	Won	First Hispanic actor to win an acting Academy Award.
1952 (25th)		Moulin Rouge	Nominated	First Hispanic actor to be nominated more than once.

Best Supporting Actor

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Year	Nominee	Film	Status	Notes
1948 (21st)	José Ferrer	Joan of Arc	Nominated	First Hispanic person to be nominated for an acting Academy Award. First Puerto Rican to be nominated in any category.
2000 (73rd)	Benicio del Toro	Traffic	Won	First and only actor to win for a Spanish-speaking role.
2003 (75th)		21 Grams	Nominated

Best Supporting Actress

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Year	Nominee	Film	Status	Notes
1961 (34th)	Rita Moreno	West Side Story	Won	First Hispanic Puerto Rican of Spanish descent to be nominated for and win an Academy Award for 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).

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Screenwriter(s)	Film	Status	Notes
2004 (77th)	José Rivera	Diarios de Motocicleta	Nominated

Best Foreign Language Film

Main article: List of Puerto Rican submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Puerto Rico has submitted films for the Foreign Film category since 1985. However, 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]

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Year	Director(s)	Film	Status	Notes
1989 (62nd)	Jacobo Morales	Lo que le Pasó a Santiago	Nominated
2011 (84th)	Sonia Fritz	America	Disqualified	In 2011, AMPAS announced they would no longer accept submissions from US territories.

References

1. "Puerto Rico queda excluido de la carrera por el Oscar". El Nuevo Dia (in Spanish). October 5, 2011.

See also

• Puerto Rico portal

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