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Charo Santos deserves Oscar nod for ‘Ang Babaeng Humayo,’ US film critic says

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/entertainment/01/26/charo-santos-star-cinema-2018-012518.jpg"/><figcaption>A still from &quot;Ang Babaeng Humayo,&quot; Lav Diaz&#x27;s revenge drama that stars ABS-CBN top executive Charo Santos-Concio.<em> File/Courtesy of Star Cinema</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>No Filipino actor has ever been nominated for an Oscar. </p><p>But if it were up to this one film critic who writes for a newspaper in San Diego, Calif., Charo Santos-Concio deserves a nod from the Academy Awards for her performance in &quot;Ang Babaeng Humayo.&quot; </p><p>Glenn Heath Jr. of the San Diego CityBeat included Santos-Concio, whom Heath described as one of the &quot;titanic figures&quot; in Philippine cinema, in his list of &quot;<a href="http://sdcitybeat.com/culture/film/the-best-film-performances-snubbed-by-oscar/">the best film performances snubbed by Oscar</a>.&quot; </p><p>&quot;Rage, empathy, heartache, joy: this performance has it all,&quot; he wrote of Santos-Concio&#x27;s starring role in the Lav Diaz drama. </p><p>He also called the nearly 4-hour film a &quot;brilliant character study&quot; and praised Diaz for his &quot;famed long takes&quot; that &quot;help establish deeper emotional stakes.&quot; </p><p>Heath said that he wanted his list, that also included names such as Robert Pattinson and &quot;Okja&quot; star Ahn Seo-hyun, to be a &quot;frank reminder to all Oscar voters that cinema’s best spans far beyond the limited reaches of their DVD screener pile.&quot; </p><p>San Diego CityBeat describes itself as an alternative newsweekly that has a weekly circulation of 50,000. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jiciSsltTFw?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="~//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="~//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>&quot;Ang Babaeng Humayo&quot; won the <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/09/10/16/lav-diaz-wins-top-prize-in-venice-film-festival">top prize</a> in the 2016 Venice Film Festival. </p><p>It was not submitted for consideration for an Oscar in the foreign-language category that year, with the country&#x27;s film academy opting for &quot;Ma&#x27; Rosa.&quot; For 2017, it fielded Mikhail Red&#x27;s &quot;Birdshot.&quot; </p>