New York Latin ACE Awards are given annually to honor achievement in Latino cinema,
television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
,
radio
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and
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
by an organization of New York-based Hispanic journalists and correspondents.
ACE is an acronym for
''Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York''.
History
Founding members were Miguel Ángel Gallástegui, its first provisional president; Nemesio Acevedo, Fernando Campos, José C. Cayón, Johnny Chévere, Manuel del Valle, Pedro Galiana, Efraín Hidalgo, Ramón Plazza, Santiago Pollarsky and Arístides Sotolongo.
The first Latin ACE Awards
ceremony, after the winners were announced at the Club Sans Souci in Uptown
Manhattan
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on May 25, 1969, took place officially at
Madison Square Garden during an extended interlude of the rodeo show of Mexican motion picture star Tony Aguilar.
Films honored by the Latin ACE Awards include ''
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!'' (1991), and ''
Little Spain''
Republica.com, January, 2015
Notes
Categories
Categories of awards include:
* Films: several acting awards
* Films: several production awards
* Radio: best program
* Theatre: several acting awards
* Theatre: several production awards
* Television: several acting awards
* Television: several production awards
* Telesion: several general awards
* Television Cable: personality and best program awards
External links
Latin Ace Awards
official web site.
Latin ACE Film Awards list published by the United Press International, January 2015
Awards established in 1969
American film awards
Latin American culture
Latin American film awards
American television awards
American theater awards
Hispanic and Latino American culture in New York (state)
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