Patricia Cardoso is a director writer and producer Cardosos feature film Real Women Have Curves was a box office and critical success and has become a landmark of Latino cinema Cardoso is a graduate of UCLAs film school an anthropologist and a Fulbright scholar her anthropological approach to directing guides her film and television work Cardoso was the first Hispanic woman director to receive a Sundance Audience Award and a Student Academy Award In 2017 Cardoso was invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in the Directors Branch In 2019 her film Real Women Have Curves was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry as a cinematic treasure and worthy of preservation as part of Americas patrimony Description above from the Wikipedia article Patricia Cardoso licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia