Nora Aunor - Gawad CCP

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Nora Aunor

Because she was born a pure Filipino citizen and also she was like the voice of the struggles of a
life of a Filipino by her movies and also showing the tradition of some Filipino in some of her
movies like HIMALA, also she was a great actress.

She was a Filipino actress, recording artist, Director, Talent manager and film producer. Nora
aunor has also appeared in several stage plays, television shows, and concert. She is known as
Philippine Cinema’s “superstar” and is regarded as the people’s national artist. The Hollywood
called her “The Grand Dame Of Philippine Cinema” for performance in the Movie Taklub.

Aunor started her career in the Philippine entertainment industry as a singer after she won an
amateur singing contest tawag ng tanghalan in the year 1967. She made her film debut with All
Over the World (1967) and appeared in youth-oriented films produced by Vera-Perez Pictures
and United Brothers Production. Aunor transformed herself into a serious actress and came to be
regarded as an acting heavyweight, performing in films such as Tatlong taong walang Diyos
(1976), Himala (1982), Bona (1980), The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995) and Thy Womb
(2012) which gave her international and local awards and nominations. Aunor received 17
FAMAS Award nominations and was elevated to the "Hall of Fame" after winning five Best
Actress Awards. She is the most nominated actress of Gawad Urian Awards with 20
nominations, winning seven. She has more nominations as Best Actress than any other Filipino
actor in both FAMAS and Gawad Urian award giving bodies. She has won eight trophies from
PMPC Star Awards for her work in television and movies, eight Metro Manila Film Festival,
four Luna Awards, five Young Critics Circle Awards, a Cairo Film Festival award, an Asia
Pacific Screen Awards, an Asian Film Awards, among others.

In 1983, Aunor was recognized as one of The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service
(TOWNS) in the Field of the Arts. In 1999, Aunor received the Centennial Honors for the Arts
awarded by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). She was the only film actress included
in the list of awardees. In 2010, she was hailed by the Green Planet Movie Awards as one of the
"10 Asian Best Actresses of the Decade". She received the Ani ng Dangal Award (Harvest of
Honors). from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in 2013, 2014 and 2016. In
2013, she received the "Light of Culture Awards from Philippine Centre of the International
Theatre Institute and the ITI-Earthsavers UNESCO Dream Center for pioneering in the
integration of theater, television, and film. In 2014, Aunor is the recipient of University of the
Philippines College of Mass Communications, Gawad Plaridel AwardShe was also conferred of
the Gusi Peace Prize in 2015 Aunor is also one of the few Asian actresses to be nominated as
best actress in three Asian film awards namely: 6th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) in
Australia (winner), 55th Asia Pacific Film Festival (APFF) in Macau and in the 7th Asian Film
Awards (AFA) in Hong Kong (winner) for the movie Thy Womb. That’s why we nominate her
for the Gawad CCP para sa Sining Because she was titled with a various awards and have been
producing a high quality of work.

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