Last week Penélope Cruz became the Spanish first actress to win an academy award. Her golden statuette was for best supporting actress in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a role in which she speaks mainly Spanish. It came a year after her co-star, Javier Bardem, became the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar for his supporting role in No Country for Old Men. Cruz spoke later of her hopes that Hollywood is now increasingly willing to embrace different nationalities and languages. Such a trend reflects a Spanish boom on TV and radio as Hispanics, the biggest minority in America, become ever more influential.
Spanish is the first language of 34 million people in US. Only Mexico has a bigger Spanish-speaking community.
The only disappointment for the media that day was that Bardem, whom Cruz is said to be dating, was not there to plant a congratulatory kiss. Then the Spanish Hollywood fairytale would be complete.
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