The first nomination in Ana de Arma's career for Best Actress for her work. in Blonde, a film directed by New Zealander Andrew Dominik and in which the Cuban plays the late actress Norma Jeane Mortenson, known as Marilyn Monroe.
“Wow! I am on the moon. Thank you for all your love and support, for all your messages, calls, and videos. My heart has never been more full! What an amazing day, what a beautiful honor. Thanks to the Academy for making this dream come true, ”De Armas wrote on her Instagram account.
It only took Ana de Armas eight years working at the Mecca of Cinema for the Academy to give the nomination to this 34-year-old young woman who had been making noise for some time after having been a Bond Girl in No Time to Die, along with Daniel Craig; having starred alongside Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in the film Blade Runner: 2049 or having embarrassed Chris Evans three times in three films in which they have shared credits: Between Knives and Secrets, The Gray Man and Ghosted.
“I am proud, I think it has been painful, I have worked very hard and I have prepared a lot to get here. I have made several moves in my career and have tried to accept the best that the industry has given me and have always tried to take steps that bring me closer to the place that I want to be. It all comes down to work and I am very happy and proud of my decisions, as well as of the people I have had to work with," Ana de Armas previously expressed in an interview she gave to Excelsior when asked what her feelings were about being in Hollywood.
Ana de Armas becomes the first Cuban actress to be nominated for an Oscar. Among her compatriots nominated are: the musician and composer Ernesto Lecuona, nominated in 1943 for Original Song for Always in My Heart!, Andy García, in 1991 was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather. Part III, as well as Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, who was nominated for Best Foreign Film for their film Strawberry and Chocolate.
The nomination for Blonde, in which the Cuban will compete for the gold award with Cate Blanchett, Michelle Williams, Michelle Yeoh, and Andrea Riseborough, has not been immune to criticism from some detractors who social networks took up the criticism that was made of her. months ago, before the premiere of Blonde on Netflix, regarding the accent so marked that Ana de Armas had and that it did not correspond to that of Marilyn Monroe.
Many joined this feeling and others came to the defense of the Cuban woman who started her acting career, both in Cuba and in Spain (where her grandparents are from). It was defended by the owners of Monroe's rights themselves, that is the Authentic Brands Group firm.
"We had been working on the project for ten years, but it was not until we found Ana that we were able to move forward," the company commented at the time.
Blonde, based on the homonymous novel by New Yorker Joyce Carol Oates, is a fictional portrait of the actress's life, her fears, torments, and obsessions, as well as the weight she came to experience as Marilyn Monroe versus Norma Jeane, the woman that it really was her. They say that genres are broken in tastes and the critics on Rotten Tomatoes rated it with 42 percent approval and the public with 32 percent.
The organizers of the Razzie Awards, which point out the worst in cinema, nominated the film starring De Armas in four categories, twice: Worst Picture, Worst Director, Screenplay, and Worst Supporting Actor for Xavier Samuel and Evan Williams.
Curiously, Ana de Armas was not nominated at the Razzie and a day later the Academy gave her an Oscar nomination. Although anything can happen, the possibility of the Cuban winning the Oscar is slim, since Cate Blanchett has swept previous awards for her work in Tár.
Born in Havana, Cuba, on April 30, 1988, Ana Celia de Armas Caso began her acting career on the island at the age of 16 in the romantic drama, A Rose from France. Two years later, at the age of 18, De Armas traveled to Madrid and began an ascending career by being part of the successful thriller series The Internship, which had six seasons.
After several years in Spain, where she received her naturalization letter as she was of Iberian grandparents, she filmed several films such as For a Fistful of Kisses and Faraday, or series such as Hispania, the legend, Ana de Armas made her Hollywood debut in 2015 with Keanu Reeves in Knock Knock, a film directed by Eli Roth. Later he was seen in Manos de Piedra together with Édgar Ramírez, Usher, and, Robert De Niro, and from there, Blade Runner 2049 followed, The Wasp Network, in which he shared with the Mexican Gael García Bernal and films such as Entre knives and secrets, Sin Time to Die and The Gray Man.
While Ana de Armas eagerly awaits the Oscar ceremony, which will take place on March 12 in Los Angeles, she is awaiting the premiere of Ballerina, a film in which she will be seen again with Keanu Reeves, Norman Reedus, and Anjelica Huston, and will soon appear in Ghosted with Chris Evans and Adrien Brody.
