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In 2022, she won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Anita in West Side Story (2021), approximately 60 years after Rita Moreno won the same award for the same role in West Side Story (1961).
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- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
West Side Story: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez. An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
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For playing Anita in Steven Spielberg's West Side Story (2021), she won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her Oscar win made her the first Afro-Latina and first openly queer woman of color to win an Academy Award for acting.
Mar 28, 2022 · DeBose won the prize for her role in the Steven Spielberg-directed West Side Story remake, in which she plays the key role of Anita, the girlfriend of Sharks gang leader Bernardo, and...
Mar 28, 2022 · CNN — Ariana DeBose won best actress in a supporting role for “West Side Story” at the Academy Awards on Sunday and made history as the first openly queer woman of color to win in the...
Mar 27, 2022 · Ariana DeBose has won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role as Anita in 20th Century Studios’ West Side Story. The win is historic not just because DeBose’s co-star Rita...
Jan 26, 2022 · By Rebecca Sun. January 26, 2022. There’s a saying that you should never meet your idols, but Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose beg to differ. It was the spring of 2019 when Rita Moreno showed up...