Daniela Vega makes Oscars history as first openly transgender presenter

Daniela Vega, star of Oscar-winning film an incredible lady, quietly created history at the Academy Awards Sunday night. The role player emerged on stage to introduce Sufjan Stevens’s performance of “Mystery of Love” from decision American state By Your Name — creating her the primary brazenly transgender Oscars presenter.

“Thank you most for this moment,” Vega aforesaid, taking the stage. “I need to ask you to open your hearts and your feelings to feel the truth, to feel love. are you able to feel it?”

Vega’s expertise galvanized an incredible lady, that took home the figurine for Best Foreign Language Film. tho' she was snubbed from the simplest role player class, her director, Sebastián Lelio, thanked her in acceptive the award.

“I need to convey the forged of the film, particularly the sensible actor Francisco Pablo Neruda Morandé and therefore the inspiration for this picture, Daniela Vega,” he said. “This film was created by plenty of friends and artists. I share this with all of you tonight.”

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Speaking to reporters backstage once his win, Lelio remarked, “I felt that, for me, it had been [a] terribly self-generated and robust call knowing that i used to be not attending to build this film while not a transgender thespian in main role, that was ME, which place [the] film in an exceedingly completely different dimension thanks to everything that Daniela delivered to the film. … That doesn’t mean somebody like Daniela can’t interpret a cisgender role, you recognize what I mean?”

To electronic warfare before the Oscars ceremony, Vega aforesaid of her film’s role inside the larger transgender community, “The mission of the picture is to create positive our emotions area unit reconnected, as a result of [we’re often] silenced . Art is essential to unlocking those doors of [understanding.]”

Armie Hammer and Louis Comfort Tiffany Haddish, 2 additional of the perceptibly snubbed actors from the nominations, were additionally among the star-studded list of presenters. Meanwhile, Yance Ford, the film producer Best Documentary Feature political leader sturdy Island, created history because the initial overtly trans director to be recognized with a nomination at the Oscars.