There have been only four Indigenous women nominated for acting awards in Oscars’ 95-year history:
Three Best Actress nominees:
Merle Oberon for “The Dark Angel” (1935)
Keisha Castle-Hughes in “Whale Rider” (2003)
Yalitza Aparicio for “Roma” (2018)
One Best Supporting actress:
Jocelyne LaGarde for “Hawaii” (1966)
Along with never winning an acting Oscar, an Indigenous actress from the U.S. has never won a SAG or Critics Choice prize or even been nominated by those groups.
Lily Gladstone may change all that if she is nominated for Best Actress in Scorsese’s epic Western, Killers of the Flower Moon, which she definitely deserves.
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