Latinx David Hinojosa, of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent, recently earned an Oscar nomination as a producer in the Best Picture category for the film Past Lives, the debut feature by Celine Song. He becomes only the second US producer with Latin American roots to be nominated for Best Picture, following Panamanian-American Shaka King for Judas and the Black Messiah in 2021.
Hinojosa is Founding Partner and Head of Production at 2AM. He spent over a decade at Christine Vachon’s iconic award-winning production company Killer Films. While at Killer, he developed such titles as Wash Westmoreland & Richard Glatzer's Academy Award winning Alice and Todd Haynes' Carol which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and received six Academy Award nominations.
Most recently, Hinojosa produced Josephine Decker’s Shirley, Janicza Bravo's Zola, Mona Fastvold's The World to Come, Brady Corbet's Vox Lux and Paul Schrader’s First Reformed. Hinojosa has upcoming work from Todd Solondz, Billy Porter, Rebecca Miller and Jennifer Kent. He is Co-Vice Chair of the Producers Guild of America East, Chair of the Independent Producer's Task Force and lectures at New York University's prestigious graduate film program.
In 2019, Hinojosa was invited to join the Producers branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Prior to Killer, he worked at The Weinstein Company on the marketing campaigns of films including Tom Hooper's The King’s Speech and Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine.
Past Lives, also nominated for Best Original Screenplay, follows two childhood friends, who are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Decades later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront destiny, love and the choices that make a life.
The winners of the 96th Annual Academy Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 10.
