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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Christi Carras

Oscars 2020: Jonas Rivera makes history as first two-time US-born Latinx Academy Award winner

LOS ANGELES _ After winning the Oscar for animated feature, "Toy Story 4" producer Jonas Rivera was stunned and pleased to be reminded that he is now the first U.S.-born Latino to win multiple Oscars.

Rivera previously won for the 2015 film "Inside Out."

"As if my mind couldn't be more blown about the last five minutes, thank you for that," Rivera said. "I'm a little bit out of my body right now. It means the world to me. I can't even really put it into words."

And he had an inspirational message for others in the Latinx community dreaming big dreams, even if he couldn't deliver it in Spanish.

"The only Spanish I learned was when my grandparents would fight," he joked, before adding, "You work hard, you put your guts into it ... and it does happen."

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