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Diego Luna Becomes the First Star Wars Actor Nominated for a Golden Globe Since Sir Alec Guinness

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Every so often, Star Wars makes history in a way that doesn’t involve box-office records, new shows, or surprise cameos. Today, it’s something far rarer — and honestly, long overdue. Diego Luna has become the first actor since Sir Alec Guinness in 1977 to receive a Golden Globe nomination for a performance in a Star Wars project. Yes.It has been that long. Not since Guinness was nominated for his legendary portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars (later retitled A New Hope) has an actor from this galaxy far, far away been recognized in one of Hollywood’s biggest awards shows. Now Diego Luna has done it — and it’s thanks to Andor, one of the most critically acclaimed Star Wars stories ever put on screen. A Historic Nomination Decades in the Making Let’s put this into perspective. Since 1977, Star Wars has produced: And yet no actor from…

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