Nora
Aunor (born Nora
Cabaltera Villamayor on May 21, 1953) is a critically acclaimed Filipino
actress, recording artist, and film producer. Aunor has also topbilled several stage plays,
television shows, and concerts.
Aunor
started her career in the Philippine Entertainment Industry as a singer after
she won an amateur singing contest. She made her first film debut with All
Over the World (1967) and also guested in youth-oriented flicks 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,
performed in movies like 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 before she was elevated to the "Hall
of Fame" after winning five Best Actress Awards. She was also the most
nominated actress of Gawad Urian Awards with 16 nominations winning six She has
more nominations than any other Filipino actress in both FAMAS and Gawad Urian
as Best Actress. She also won eight trophies from PMPC Star Awards both on T.V.
and Movies, eight Metro Manila Film Festival , four Luna Awards, four Young
Critics Circle Awards, a Cairo Film Festival award, an Asia Pacific Screen
Awards, an Asian Film Awards, a Berlin Film Festival Award nomination, and a
Venice Film Festival Awards nomination, amongst others.
In
1983, Aunor was recognized as one of the The Outstanding Women in the
Nation’s Service (TOWNS) in the Field of the Arts. In 1999, Aunor received
the Centennial Honor 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'. In 2013 She received
the Ani ng Dangal Award
(Harvest of Honors). from the National commission for Culture and the Arts. 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.
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”.
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Very impressive, indeed! Walang kapantay!
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