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- Jose Ferrer won the Oscar for Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac. First Latin American to win for Best Actor.
- Anthony Quinn won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Viva Zapata! He is the first Mexican actor to win an Academy Award.
- Anthony Quinn won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Lust for Life
- Benicio del Toro won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Traffic. He is the first and only actor to win for a Spanish-speaking role.
- Rita Moreno won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story. She was the first (and only) Latin American to win for Best Supporting Actress.
This list only includes Latin Americans who won in the acting categories, for more Latin American Oscar winners, see the related link below.
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∙ 12y agoRita Moreno, who was born in Puerto Rico, is the first and only Hispanic woman to win an Academy Award for acting. She won the 1961 Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as Anita in "West Side Story."
Moreno is one of the few performers who have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy.
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