The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences paid tribute last night to the late Mexican filmmaker Felipe Cazals and the popular actress Carmen Salinas in its ‘In Memoriam’ segment at the 94th annual edition of the Oscars.
Veteran filmmaker Cazals, who died October 17, 2021, directed over thirty feature films, and was one of the Mexico’s most revered filmmakers with his combative style and his politically and socially conscious cinema. He was best known for his 1976 seminal film Canoa: A Shameful Memory / Canoa, one of the country’s most highly regarded works of political cinema, which is part of the Criterion Collection.
Salinas was a popular and iconic actress who died at the age of 82 on December 9, 2021. She had a prolific acting career in cinema and television participating in over one hundred films working and working with numerous filmmakers including as Roberto Gavaldón, María Novaro, Arturo Ripstein, Alfonso Arau, Alberto Isaac, Patricia Riggen, and Tony Scott. She was also an iconic actress of the highly popular Mexican sex comedies of the late seventies and early eighties.
Additionally, the Academy also paid tribute to the Mexican actress Isela Vega, and actor-singer Vicente Fernández, the Brazilian actors Paulo José and Paulo Gustavo in its extended online In Memoriam page: www.oscars.org/in-memoriam
