Babel, Ugly Betty each win 4 ALMA awards
Last Updated: Saturday, June 2, 2007 | 12:04 PM ET
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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's film Babel and quirky TV comedy Ugly Betty were multiple winners at the 2007 American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Awards honouring achievement by Hispanic artists.
| ALMA Awards selected winners | |
|---|---|
| Best movie | Babel |
| Best film actor | Jesse Garcia, Quinceanera |
| Best film actress | Adriana Barraza, Babel |
| Best screenplay | Guillermo Arriaga, Babel |
| Best TV series | Ugly Betty |
| Best TV actor | Tie: Edward James Olmos, Battlestar Galactica, and Michael Pena, Walkout |
| Best TV actress | America Ferrera, Ugly Betty |
| Best supporting actor, TV | Benito Martinez, The Shield |
| Best supporting actress, TV | Ana Ortiz, Ugly Betty |
| Best TV director | Tie: Edward James Olmos, Walkout, and Kenny Ortega, High School Musical |
| Best TV screenwriting | Silvio Horta, Ugly Betty |
| Best documentary | From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale |
| Special achievement | George Lopez |
| Music pioneer | Los Lobos |
Babel, the 2006 film with multiple storylines about people having trouble communicating what they need, won four awards, including outstanding motion picture and best director for Inarritu.
Adriana Barraza, the Mexican actress who plays a nanny keen to get to her son's wedding in Babel, was named best actress.
She had earned an Academy Award nomination for the performance, one of seven Oscar nods for Babel, which ended up winning only best score.
Jesse Garcia took the outstanding movie actor ALMA for Quinceanera, in which he plays a gay cousin who helps a pregnant teen abandoned by her family.
Ugly Betty, the breakout hit of the 2006 TV season, won for best TV series, and its star America Ferrara was named best TV actress.
America Ferrera plays the good-hearted but fashion-challenged Betty in a series based on a Latino telenovella.
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Ferrara plays the good-hearted but dowdy Betty, who is trying to make her way through the world of high fashion.
Ugly Betty also earned a supporting actress award for Ana Ortiz and a script-writing award for Silvio Horta, who wrote the series pilot.
The awards, presented in the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Friday, were created by Hispanic advocacy group National Council of La Raza.
Hispanic characters have been taking a higher profile in recent years in both TV and movies, with groups lobbying for more diverse American stories.
Another ALMA winner was George Lopez, whose self-titled sitcom was cancelled at the end of this season. He won a special achievement award.
HBO special Walkout, about a group of Latino students in 1968 who stage a walkout for equality in education, earned two honours — best TV actor for Michael Pena and best director for Edward James Olmos.
In a strange twist, Pena tied for the acting honours with Olmos, star of Battlestar Galactica.
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