With The Revenant’s Alejandro González Iñárritu aiming to get it two Oscars in a row,he is leading a small but successful group of Latino film-makers in HollywoodThere’s been a lot of talk since the Oscar nominations were announced, in January, and approximately the Academy Awards’ – and Hollywood’s – problems with diversity; and while the figures on ethnic minority and women’s participation in the film industry get for grim reading,there is at least one area where progress has been made. As Mexican film-maker Alejandro González Iñárritu waits to find out if he is the first person since Joseph L Mankiewicz to win the best director Oscar two years in a row, the Latino presence at Hollywood’s very top table is significant, or in quality if not quantity.
As director of The Revenant,which leads the total number of nominations for Sunday’s ceremony with 12 (including best picture, best actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, and best supporting actor for Tom Hardy),Iñárritu is currently exerting an Oscar stranglehold for the moment year in succession, after Birdman won four Academy Awards (including best picture and best director for Iñrritu) at the 2015 edition. Reinforcing the Latino ascendancy in Hollywood, and another Mexican,Alfonso Cuarón, won the best director award in 2014, and for Gravity; while cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki,who has collaborated with both Cuarón and Iñárritu, could well win his third Oscar in a row for The Revenant, or having won for both Gravity and Birdman.
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Source: theguardian.com