Actor, composer and playwright of Puerto Rican descent Lin-Manuel Miranda reported via his Twitter account this afternoon that he would not be attending the 94th tomorrow. Oscars because his wife Vanessa Nadal tested positive for COVID-19.
Made it to Hollywood…
This weekend my wife ➕ tested for COVID.
She is fine. Kids & I tested ➖ but out of caution I’m not going to the Oscars tomorrow night. I cheer my TickTickBoom and Encanto families with my own family, along with all of you, ALL. -LMM— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 26, 2022
Lin-Manuel regretted the situation and although he is fine, as a precaution he decided not to attend the ceremony where he will be nominated in the Best Song category for his musical composition “Dos oruguitas” from the film “Charm”. . If it were the winner, Miranda’s song would be the first gold statuette to be won in this category as it is written and sung in Spanish.
“To win an Oscar with a song in Spanish would be a great pride. “I remember how I felt when Jorge Drexler’s ‘The Other Side of the River’ won the award in 2005,” said Miranda, who directed his first film. “Tick, tick… BOOM!”, last year. “But just being invited to the Oscar party makes me proud because I’m recognized by other film artists. Movies were my first love and working in cinema was my lifelong dream, mainly thanks to the fact that my grandfather Wisín had a video store in Vega Alta where I could watch any movie in the summer,” he said in an interview recently at TheNewDay.
With the award, Lin-Manuel Miranda could achieve coveted EGOT status, an acronym by which Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award winners are, and will be, known the second Puerto Rican to achieve maximum recognition, after actress Rita Moreno.