Spain’s Penelope Cruz, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress last year, has been nominated again.
In the same category for her role in the musical “Nine,” her third candidacy for one of the coveted statuettes.
Cruz is going up against Mo’Nique (“Precious”), Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick (both for their roles in “Up in the Air”)
And Maggie Gyllenhaal (“Crazy Heart”), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday at the traditional ceremony to announce the Oscar nominees.
Despite the success represented merely by being nominated, the chances that the Madrid native will win.
The award at the 82nd edition of the Oscars on March are quite a bit lower than in 2009, when she was the favorite.
In the Best Supporting Actress category for her work in Woody Allen’s film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
This year, Mo’Nique is expected to capture the Oscar in the category just as she did at the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild awards and the Critic’s Choice Awards.
The Argentine film “El secreto de sus ojos” and the Peruvian one “The Milk of Sorrow” landed nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
The Latin American films will contend for the Oscar with “The White Ribbon” from Germany; “Un Prophete” from France, and “Ajami” from Israel.
“The Milk of Sorrow,” directed by Claudia Llosa, became the first Peruvian production to get into the running for an Oscar.
“El secreto de sus ojos,” by Juan Jose Campanella, is the sixth Argentine film to be nominated in the Best Foreign Film category, but only one of those works – “The Official Story” in 1986 – managed to secure the award.
The South American films, however, are not favorites to win the Oscar. Rather, that position is held by the German film “The White Ribbon,” directed by Michael Haneke, which already won at the Golden Globes and at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The short film “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte),” by Spaniard Javier Recio Gracia, will compete for an Oscar in the Best Animated Short Film category.
Also nominated in that category are “French Roast,” by Fabrice O. Joubert, and “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty,” by Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell.
Also nominated in the category are “Logorama,” by Nicolas Schmerkin, and “A Matter of Loaf and Death,” by Nick Park.
“The Lady and the Reaper,” produced by Kandor Graphics, is also a candidate for a Goya, the most important prize in the Spanish film industry.
The seven-minute piece is the first produced in Spain with the new 3D stereoscopic technology, and it tells the story of an old woman’s journey toward death.
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