Among the list included are Nick Joaquin's "A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino" directed by Lamberto Avellana. This 1965 classic black and white movie received six Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award nominations, including a FAMAS Best Picture nomination. It is based on the literary play of the same title written in English by Filipino National Artist for Literature and one of the Philippine’s best postwar author, poet, and playwright Nick Joaquin. It was described as Joaquin’s “most popular play”, as the "most important Filipino play in English", and as “probably the best-known Filipino play” Apart from being regarded also as the “national play of the Philippines” because of its popularity, it also became one of the important reads in English classes in the Philippines. [READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AFTER THE JUMP]
