Opinion: In Hollywood, Latinos are still waiting for their close-up

Carolyn Curiel served as a U.S. ambassador and White House senior speechwriter in the Clinton administration. Latinos will be an integral part of the Academy Awards on Sunday. You likely […]

Victor Landa, NewsTaco ( 1 minute read)   Not that it was her fault (I have to start with a disclaimer) but the very public snafu at the end of the […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco Alfonso Cuarón is Mexican. He’s also a film maker. Since winning this year’s best director Oscar for his movie “Gravity” both those things are said in […]

By Nicole Sperling, Los Angeles Times The National Hispanic Media Coalition issued an open letter Tuesday to the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expressing their […]

By Tony Castro, Voxxi There were no political speeches pressing for immigration reform at Sunday’s 85th Academy Awards, but a documentary short about an undocumented immigrant was one of the […]

By Jesse Luna, NewsTaco Like Alice going into the rabbit hole, I’ve become so addicted to and curious about Vinevideos that I created a viewing platform, Vinormous.com. Vinormous, allows you to get […]

By Nina Terrero, NBCLatino Lupe Ontiveros appeared in more than 100 films and dozens of television shows before passing away from liver cancer in July 2012 and was praised by members of the […]

By Adriana Villavicencio, Being Latino Latinos don’t win Oscars. They star in movies, make movies, write movies, design costumes and write scores for movies, but very few have taken the coveted […]

By Tom Castaneda, Latina Click on picture to read story. [Photo by Loren Javier]

By Hispanically Speaking News On Monday, the films from a record 71 countries vying for the 85th Academy Awards’ Foreign Language Film award were announced. The 2012 official submissions from Latin […]