The Big Picture: Benicio Del Toro Career & Biographical Notes: Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico Made cinematic debut in Big Top Pee-Wee In winning Oscar for Traffic, became third Puerto Rican to win (Rita Moreno, Jose Ferrer) and also fourth actor to win for a primarily non-English-speaking role (Robert De Niro, Sophia Loren, Roberto Benigni) Once won an 85-minute long staring contest with Sean Penn

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Benicio Del Toro Trivia Quizzes
at HowWellDoYouKnow.com:

• 8/19/11-8/25/11
• License to Kill
• Sin City
• Usual Suspects, The

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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Savages	7/6/12	N/A
The Wolfman	2/12/10	N/A
Che	12/12/08	N/A
American Gangster	11/2/07				126.03	Info
Things We Lost in the Fire	10/19/07	N/A
Sin City	4/1/05	R	3230	29.12	74.10	Info
21 Grams	11/21/03	R	8	0.27	16.25	Info
The Hunted	3/14/03	R	2516	13.48	34.23	Info

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Awards:

2008
Che

• Runner-Up: Best Actor, Online Film Critics Association

2003
21 Grams

• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Supporting Actor, Washington (DC) Area Film Critics Association
• Win: Best Supporting Actor, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor - Drama, Golden Satellites
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Screen Actors' Guild
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Chicago Film Critics
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Broadcast Film Critics Association

2000
Traffic

• Win: Best Supporting Actor, Academy Awards
• Win: Best Supporting Actor, Chicago Film Critics
• Win: Best Supporting Actor, BOP's Calvin Awards
• Win: Best Supporting Actor, Las Vegas Film Critics
• Win: Best Supporting Actor, National Society of Film Critics
• Win: Best Supporting Actor, Online Film Critics Association
• Win: Best Supporting Actor, New York Film Critics
• Win: Best Actor, Toronto Film Critics
• Win: Best Actor, Screen Actors' Guild
• Win: Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globes

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