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feminist historian: The Oscar Is Mexican: Academy Award Statuette Modeled After Emilio "El Indio" Fernández

thinkmexican:

The story behind the Academy Award’s Oscar statuette is itself one fit for the movies.

It starts in the 1920’s during the Mexican Revolution. Emilio Fernández was studying in Mexico’s military college when he decided to take up arms and help support the revolutionary…

 

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