Ana de Armas, the first Cuban actress to apply for an Academy Award

With her selection among the five women selected for the highest award from the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the 34-year-old became the first Cuban to be selected for such an important award.

De Armas competes in the Best Leading Actress category with Cate Blanchett (TÁR), Michelle Yeoh (Everything at Once Everywhere), Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) and Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans), all with great representations of their characters. Movies from.

The first two emerged among the favorites of other international critics and juries who moved their prizes between the performance of a famous German conductor and that of a simple Chinese immigrant in the United States, and she is embroiled in a wild, multidimensional adventure.

However, with her incarnation of the Hollywood icon represented by Marilyn Monroe, the Caribbean island-born girl also earned a nomination for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and BAFTAs from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. .

His role as a legend of North American culture earned him rave reviews from critics and personalities from the movie world, so it can all happen tonight at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California, when the new winners are announced.

Regarding de Armas’ performance in Blonde, multi-award winning Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar affirmed, “Ana deserves an Oscar. What she did as Marilyn is incredible.”

But he warned that in the race for the awards “this year there are two fierce women, Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett.”

“I think it’s phenomenal,” American actor Brad Pitt, who is also an executive producer on the film, told Entertainment Weekly of his performance. Regarding the character’s complexity, he stated that “her dress is very difficult to put on”.

He noted that the project had been under development for 10 years. “It was impossible for us to reach the finish line until we found Anna,” said the actress, another Hollywood star.

For Cuban critic Joel del Río, the work’s best trump card is its protagonist: “Ana de Armas is formidable in her ability to move from imitation to the visceral, from facial rectus to action with diction, and from there to the contortions of the spirit, all with absolute fluidity.” And an amazing ability,” he wrote in the newspaper Juventud Rebelde.

She noted that regardless of whether she was nominated or awarded or not, “more than a star was born, and she is a wonderful actress whose brilliance was difficult for me to understand at first, but now I realize with all the frankness of knowledge that it is a mistake and even spread the error.” “.

De Armas was able to transform not only into the different characters played by the American actress, but also to imagine in an exceptional way her existential challenges and personal struggles, in addition to the personal problems she faced during her existence.

Her filmography includes roles in nearly 30 films, including Knives in the Back, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Female Performance. In addition to the famous films Blade Runner 2049, No time to die, The Gray Man, and others.

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