'Cyrano de Bergerac' and 'The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez' are among the 25 influential films added to the registry this year for preservation by the National Film Preservation Board.
Every year the board selects 25 films to add to the registry based on its historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions.
His performance in the film made Ferrer the first Latino to win an Academy Award for best actor in 1951. “The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez,” released in 1982, is a film based on a folkloric figure from a popular early 1900s Mexican corrido. While the corrido, or ballad, has been richly embellished over time, it isThe movie adaptation, starring Edward James Olmos as Gregorio Cortez, is considered one of the key feature films from the burgeoning 1980s Chicano film movement.
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