Ugly Betty Does Well Again at the Imagen Awards
August 23, 2009 by Tom
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Friday evening, the 24th Annual Imagen Awards were held, and Ugly Betty once again took home awards in many categories.
The Imagen Awards were established in 1985 by Helen Hernandez and producer Norman Lear to encourage and recognize positive portrayals of Latinos in the media.
America Ferrera won Best Actress in Television (an award I was surprised she did NOT win last year).
Ana Ortiz won best supporting actress in Television; she has long deserved recognition for her great work in Betty. Based upon the spoilers we’ve heard thus far, I think this coming season will offer more opportunities for accolades for Miss Ortiz, if Betty can survive the Friday night curse.
Speaking of Ortiz, Betty did NOT win Best Primetime Television Program because it was beaten by a TV movie that Ana Ortiz co-starred in: Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story. We first told you about Ortiz’s work on the docu-drama here.
Perhaps the greatest honor of all, though, went to Ugly Betty executive producer Silvio Horta, who was presented the Creative Achievement Award.
Interestingly, Beverly Hills Chihuahua won Best Feature Film.
Noticeably absent were the categories of actress in a feature film and supporting actress in a feature film. They were eliminated from contention this year because they failed to meet the minimum number of entries required for award consideration.
Congratulations America, Ana, and Silvio!
Source: Hollywood Reporter
IMage: Newscom
well done ugly betty! at last, some good news on the awards front for a change
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Hey, Tom.
Ugly Betty got multiple nominations for the Alma Awards (released this morning. Heads up by “Lynnie”)
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007694.html?categoryId=1011&cs=1
Can’t wait to see pictures of all the actors in that event. Specially, ta-da! Freddy Rodriguez is going to be there. I hope they negotiate his come back on the show! We need you, Freddy!