With the 96th Academy Awards ceremony just around the corner, the list of hosts has been revealed, and the surprise was the inclusion of Puerto Rican reggaeton artist Bad Bunny among the presenters.
The most important night of the film industry will be celebrated next Sunday, March 10, when the cream of Hollywood will gather at the traditional Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to commemorate the best of the seventh art of the last year.
The event will be attended by several music greats, such as Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish and now also ‘El Conejo Malo’, and while some like the first are only attendees, and others like Eilish arrive as nominees, the Puerto Rican will be nowhere to be seen. less than as presenter of some of these nominees.
Benito will share the stage with a stellar selection that includes actors Christian Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson ‘The Rock’, Michael Keaton, Jennifer Lawrence, Rita Moreno, Catherine O’Hara, Octavia Spencer and Ramy Youssef, among others.
However, despite being the only Latino among this year’s hosts, the news unleashed criticism against the organization of the event for inviting the interpreter of Me Porto Bonito.
“What does Bad Bunny have to do with it?”; “I feel sorry for the award that is presented by Bad Bunny”; “What was Bad Bunny’s contribution to cinema this year?”; “You know everything is bad when Bad Bunny is a presenter at the Oscars”; were some of the comments on networks.
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Previously, the production had confirmed the participation of figures such as Nicolas Cage, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong’o, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ke Huy Quan, Michelle Yeoh and Zendaya.
The ceremony will be directed by comedian Jimmy Kimmel and will be broadcast live on the ABC network, as well as on various channels globally. In Latin America, it is translated through the TNT signal.
As for the nominations, the film Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan is in the lead with 13 applications, followed by Poor Creaturescon 11, The Moon Killers with 10 and Barbie con 8.
In the case of the latter, great controversy was generated after la Academy will ignore Greta Gerwig in the Best Director category, and the protagonist, Margot Robbie for Best Actresswith Ryan Gosling being the only individual nominee from the production.
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