List of Puerto Rican Academy Award winners and nominees

Puerto Rican Academy Award winners and nominees
José Ferrer Rita Moreno · Rosie Perez Benicio del Toro · Joaquin Phoenix

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

Acting categories

This list focuses on Puerto Rican-born actors and actresses as well as those with a strong Puerto Rican descent (i.e., Nuyoricans). As of 2010, there have only been three Academy Award winning actors born in Puerto Rico. However, others have been nominated for the awards.

Actor	Year	Award	Film	Result
José Ferrer	1948	Best Supporting Actor	Joan of Arc	Nominated
José Ferrer	1950	Best Actor	Cyrano de Bergerac	Won
José Ferrer	1952	Best Actor	Moulin Rouge	Nominated
Rita Moreno	1961	Best Supporting Actress	West Side Story	Won
Rosie Perez	1993	Best Supporting Actress	Fearless	Nominated
Benicio del Toro	2000	Best Supporting Actor	Traffic	Won
Joaquin Phoenix		Best Supporting Actor	Gladiator	Nominated
Benicio del Toro	2003	Best Supporting Actor	21 Grams	Nominated
Joaquin Phoenix	2005	Best Actor	Walk the Line	Nominated
	2012		The Master	Nominated

Note: When del Toro and Phoenix were nominated by the Academy for Best Supporting Actor in 2000, it was the first time that two actors born in Puerto Rico were simultaneously nominated for such an honor.

Foreign Language Film category

Main article: List of Caribbean submissions for the Academy Award for 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.

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

Films that have been submitted for consideration are:

Film	Year	Filmmaker	Result
La Gran Fiesta	1985	Marcos Zurinaga	Not selected
Tango Bar	1988	Marcos Zurinaga	Not selected
Lo que le Pasó a Santiago	1989	Jacobo Morales	Nominated
Linda Sara	1994	Jacobo Morales	Not selected
Héroes de Otra Patria	1998	Iván Dariel Ortíz	Not selected
12 Horas	2001	Raúl Marchand Sánchez	Not selected
Cayo	2005	Vicente Juarbe	Not selected
Ladrones y Mentirosos	2006	Ricardo Méndez Matta	Not selected
Maldeamores	2007	Carlos Ruíz Ruíz	Not Selected
Kabo y Platón	2009	Edmundo H. Rodríguez	Not Selected
Miente	2010	Rafi Mercado	Not Selected

Writing categories

• Best Adapted Screenplay nomination: José Rivera, for Diarios de Motocicleta.

See also

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