ALMA Award

The American Latino Media Arts Award or ALMA Award, formerly known as Latin Oscars Award, is an award highlighting the best American Latino contributions to music, television, and film. The awards promote fair and accurate portrayals of Latinos. In Spanish and Portuguese the word alma means "soul".

History

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Constance Marie kissing her trophy at the ALMA Awards

The awards were created by UnidosUS (formerly the National Council of La Raza). The first ceremonies were held in 1987 under the name "BRAVO Awards" and broadcast on Univision.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1995, they were televised on Fox. The name was changed to the "American Latino Media Arts Awards" in 1997 and ABC became the network venue. However, ABC faced a boycott which forced the award ceremonies to be postponed until 1998.

From 2003 to 2005, the ceremonies were not held for undisclosed reasons. In 2008, the NCLR and New York firm Society Awards redesigned the trophy statuette.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> ABC stopped airing the ceremonies in 2009.

The ceremonies were canceled in 2010, to "focus on a bigger and better show in 2011".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The awards started up again in 2011, on a new network, NBC.

They were canceled for 2015.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In 2018, Fuse announced that it had acquired the rights to the award show in partnership with UnidosUS.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Award ceremonies

Year	Date	City	Host(s)
1995	Template:Date table sorting	Los Angeles	Template:Sortname Jennifer Lopez
1996	Template:Date table sorting		Template:Sortname Giselle Fernández
1997	No ceremony
1998	Template:Date table sorting	Pasadena	Template:Sortname Daisy Fuentes
1999	Template:Date table sorting		Template:Sortname
2000	Template:Date table sorting		Template:Sortname
2001	Template:Date table sorting		None
2002	Template:Date table sorting	Los Angeles	Template:Sortname
2003–2005	No ceremony
2006	Template:Date table sorting	Los Angeles	Template:Sortname
2007	Template:Date table sorting	Pasadena
2008	Template:Date table sorting	Los Angeles
2009	Template:Date table sorting	Santa Monica	Template:Sortname Eva Longoria Selena Gomez
2010	No ceremony
2011	Template:Date table sorting	Santa Monica	Template:Sortname Eva Longoria Selena Gomez
2012	Template:Date table sorting	Pasadena
2013	Template:Date table sorting		Template:Sortname Mario Lopez
2014	Template:Date table sorting
2015–2017	No ceremony
2018	Template:Date table sorting	Los Angeles	Template:Sortname

External links

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