Nora Aunor is known as Philippine cinema's "Superstar" and was conferred as a National Artist of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022.
135 Facts About Nora Aunor
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Nora Aunor started her career as a singer, after winning a local talent search.
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Nora Aunor rose to fame in the following years as both a singer and actress.
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Nora Aunor is the most nominated actress in the history of the Gawad Urian Awards with 21 nominations, winning seven, and the only performer to be chosen as one of The Best Actors and Actresses of the Decade in three different decades by the same awards body.
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Nora Aunor has won eight trophies from PMPC Star Awards for her work in film and television, as well as eight Metro Manila Film Festival Awards, four Luna Awards, five Young Critics Circle Awards, a Cairo International Film Festival award, an Asia Pacific Screen Award, an Asian Film Award, among others.
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When Nora Aunor was growing up, her grandmother Lola Theresa taught her to sing; the first song she learned was "The Way of a Clown".
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Nora Aunor entered the national singing contest, Tawag ng Tanghalan, was defeated on her first try, but became a champion on her second attempt.
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Nora Aunor went to Mabini Memorial College when she was in the first grade and transferred to Nichols Air Base Elementary School when she reached the second grade.
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Nora Aunor finished high school at Generosa de Leon Memorial College in Paranaque, a branch of Centro Escolar University.
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Nora Aunor and De Leon have one biological child: actor Ian de Leon was born on 1975 and and four adopted children Lotlot De Leon Matet de Leon, Kiko and Kenneth.
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Nora Aunor became a permanent resident of the United States in 2008, but retains her Filipino citizenship.
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Nora Aunor made her first TV appearance as a guest in An Evening with Pilita hosted by Pilita Corrales and Carmen on Camera hosted by Carmen Soriano.
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On October 2,1967, Nora Aunor signed an eight-picture non-exclusive contract with Sampaguita Pictures, with the assurance that she would be given a singing part.
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Nora Aunor made several youth-oriented films like All Over The World and Way Out of the Country.
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From September to December 1967 Nora Aunor had supporting and minor roles in six films.
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Nora Aunor continued to make teeny-bopper movies alongside Tirso Cruz III.
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Nora Aunor eventually graduated from being a teen idol to dramatic actress when she received her first Best Actress award in 1972 for her film And God Smiled at Me from Quezon City Film Festival.
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Nora Aunor was first nominated as a best actress in FAMAS for A Gift of Love.
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In 1973, Nora Aunor established her own film production company, "NV Productions" and produced its first movie entitled Carmela.
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Nora Aunor was again nominated in the 22nd FAMAS Awards for Paru-parung Itim.
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Nora Aunor made Fe, Esperanza, Caridad another critically acclaimed movie which was directed by three different directors namely Cirio H Santiago and two National Artists for film; Gerardo de Leon and Lamberto V Avellana.
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Nora Aunor produced and starred in the hit film Banaue: Stairway to the Sky which was directed by national artist Gerardo de Leon.
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Nora Aunor received her fourth FAMAS nomination at the FAMAS Awards.
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In 1976, Nora Aunor produced the movie Alkitrang Dugo through her own movie production company, NV Productions.
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Nora Aunor continued to star and produce critically acclaimed, quality films like the hit period drama Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos.
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Nora Aunor played the role of a school Teacher, named Rosario, who experienced the atrocities of World War II.
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Nora Aunor's very convincing performance won her the first ever best actress award from the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino and her first Best Actress Award from FAMAS.
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In 1977, Nora Aunor did a romantic-comedy movie with the King of the Philippine Movies Fernando Poe Jr.
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Nora Aunor was paired to the movie actor who later became Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
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Nora Aunor starred in Ikaw ay Akin, with Vilma Santos and Christopher de Leon, and directed by Ishmael Bernal.
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Nora Aunor was nominated for the seventh time at the 27th FAMAS Awards.
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Nora Aunor was nominated for Urian Best Actress and won at the 28th FAMAS Awards for her role.
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That same year, Nora Aunor made a movie with Mario O'Hara after so many years.
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Nora Aunor won her second Gawad Urian Best Actress for Bona, tying her with Gina Alajar, who won for Brutal; Nora Aunor won her ninth Best Actress nomination from the 29th FAMAS Awards for the same movie.
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In 1981, Nora Aunor made six movies most of them are romantic-comedy like the blockbusters Totoo Ba ang Tsismis and Dalaga si Mister, Binata si Misis.
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Nora Aunor produced and starred in two hit films: Ibalik ang Swerti with the Reycard Duet, and Rock N Roll, which was the official entry to the 1981 Metro Manila Film Festival.
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Nora Aunor received her 10th FAMAS Best Actress nomination and 5th nomination from Gawad Urian for her performance in this film.
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Nora Aunor won best actress from the Catholic Mass Media Awards.
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Nora Aunor continued to make romantic comedy films in 1982, such as Annie Sabungera andPalengke Queen.
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Nora Aunor played Socorro, a landlady daughter who falls for the painter who is in love with a model.
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The second was T-Bird at Ako, Nora Aunor essayed the role of a lesbian lawyer who falls for a woman she is helping to defend in court.
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Nora Aunor's third acclaimed performance for 1982 was in Himala, where Aunor played the role of a young woman who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary.
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In 1983, Aunor made only one film, Minsan, May Isang Ina, with Charito Solis and Maricel Soriano, and directed by Maryo J De Los Reyes.
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Nora Aunor portrayed an Overseas Filipino Worker who works as a nurse in America and her struggles to fight loneliness and homesickness in 'Merika.
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The film was an official entry to the 1984 Metro Manila Film Festival, for her role as a pregnant prisoner and a victim of injustice, Angela Aguilar, Nora Aunor won best actress from Metro Manila Film Festival, Catholic Mass Media Awards and her third best actress trophy from FAMAS.
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At the Gawad Urian that year, Nora Aunor was a double nominee for Best Actress for the films Bulaklak sa City Jail and Merika, while at the PMPC Star Awards for Movies, Nora Aunor was a triple nominee for Best Actress for 'Merika, Condemned, and Bulaklak sa City Jail.
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Nora Aunor was the first actor to achieve both feats.
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Nora Aunor was nominated for Best Actress at the Film Academy of the Philippines for Bulaklak sa City Jail.
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Nora Aunor filmed Bilangin ang mga Bituin sa Langit, about the rise and fall of a poor, hard-working, and determined barrio lass and her lifetime stormy relationship with a childhood sweetheart.
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Nora Aunor has now defined for us the meaning of a true triumph of the spirit.
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Showbiz insiders and others were saying that Nora Aunor's popularity was waning.
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Nora Aunor did three stages plays, the first two produced by the Philippine Educational Theater Association or.
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Nora Aunor won the first Young Critics Circle Award for Best Performance.
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Nora Aunor's guests included Gary Valenciano, Mon Faustino, The Hotlegs, The Operas, and many more.
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Later in 1991, Nora Aunor ventured into the world of theater and showed versatility and genius when she did the stage adaptation of her critically acclaimed film, Minsa'y Isang Gamu-gamo.
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Nora Aunor did two more stage plays, DH in 1992 and The Trojan Women in 1994.
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Nora Aunor won numerous awards for her performance, including the Metro Manila Film Festival Best Actress and her third consecutive Best Actress trophy from the Film Academy of the Philippines.
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Nora Aunor won at the Star Awards for Movies and from the Young Critics Circle Award for Best Performance.
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In 1992, Nora Aunor was busy with her stage play, DH, a PETA production.
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Nora Aunor won the Best Actress Award from Star Awards for Television.
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Nora Aunor went back into the recording studio to record bonus tracks for a compilation album to be released in co-operation with Alpha Records and Warner Brothers.
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The songs were released as a single but sales suffered after a rumor circulated that Nora Aunor had gotten an abortion while she was in San Diego.
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In 1994, Nora Aunor received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Film Academy of the Philippines.
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Nora Aunor is the youngest recipient of this special award.
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In 1995, Nora Aunor found renewed success in the box office when she starred in the biographical film The Flor Contemplacion Story, about Filipino domestic worker Flor Contemplacion who was hanged in Singapore for allegedly killing her fellow maid.
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In June 1996, Nora Aunor was cast to play Sisa in Premiere Productions' then-upcoming film adaptation of Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere, though the project did not come to fruition.
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In 1999, Nora Aunor made only one film, Sidhi, written by Rolando Tinio, a National Artist for Theater and Literature.
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Later that same year Nora Aunor received the Centennial Honor for the Arts conferred by the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
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In 2002, Nora Aunor returned to Philippine television through her nightly drama show entitled, Bituin, a Filipino soap opera that was aired by ABS-CBN from September 23,2002, to May 23,2003.
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In 2003, Nora Aunor held her 50th birthday "Gold" sell-out concert at the Araneta Coliseum.
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In 2004, Nora Aunor made her last film shot entirely in the Philippines before she went on hiatus for almost 8 years.
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Nora Aunor portrayed a judge who recently presided over a well publicized criminal case trial.
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Nora Aunor's character Dorinda is a 50-year-old widow with a twenty-something-year-old son, Yul Servo played Noah Garcia, a courteous and charming taxi driver who keeps a rosary in his pocket and shares stories from the Bible.
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On December 1,2005, Nora Aunor received her own star on the Philippines Walk of Fame.
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At the start of the decade, Nora Aunor was still doing a series of concerts in the United States and Canada performing to Filipino communities and to her fans as well.
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On March 23,2010, Nora Aunor was named one of the 10 Best Asian Actresses along with Gong Li and Maggie Cheung.
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Nora Aunor was the only Filipino actress to be shortlisted and win this award.
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Nora Aunor jumpstarted her career via two endorsement deals in Japan and one of them as an endorser of a Japanese Aesthetic and Lasix Center.
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However, due to a botched surgery in Japan, Nora Aunor lost her "Golden Voice" which propelled her to superstardom in the Philippine Showbiz Industry.
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Finally on August 2,2011, Tuesday, Nora Aunor finally came back to the Philippines via Philippine Airlines flight 103.
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On her return, Nora Aunor signed a three-year contract with TV5, she did a mini series, Sa Ngalan ng Ina, and a historical film with Governor ER Ejercito entitled El Presidente, a biopic of the first Philippine President Emilio Aguinaldo intended for 2012 Metro Manila Film Festival, in which she played the role of Aguinaldo's second wife Maria Agoncillo.
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Nora Aunor said: "Longer and more complex soap operas have been mounted on Philippine television before, and politics has been touched upon before, but far as I can recall there has never been a series fully driven by politics, hinging upon the election into office and subsequent administration of the main character".
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All of the performances were great especially Nora Aunor which gave her a nomination from Golden Screen TV Awards and a best actress trophy from 2012 Star Awards for Television.
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In 2012, Nora Aunor collaborated with the Cannes best director awardee Brillante Mendoza for the film Thy Womb which was part of the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
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In November 2012, Nora Aunor won the Best Actress Award at the 6th Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the film won Best Director for Brillante Mendoza.
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Nora Aunor was nominated at the 55th Asia Pacific Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival, 43rd International Film Festival of India, and won Best Actress at the 7th Asian Film Awards.
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At the 2012 Metro Manila Film Festival, Nora Aunor won her eighth best actress award from the Festival.
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Also in 2012, Nora Aunor guested in Enchanted Garden a fantasy-drama TV series.
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Nora Aunor played the role of Nana Sela a faith healer who happens to be Queen Oleya.
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On May 21,2013, Aunor celebrated her 60th birthday dubbed as "Nora at 60" at the Meralco Multi-Purpose Hall.
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On June 18,2013, Nora Aunor won the Gawad Urian Best Actress Award for the movie Thy Womb.
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Nora Aunor portrays Fely, a devoted wife, who takes care of her husband who has pancreatic cancer.
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Nora Aunor was honored as one of the "People of the Year" by People Asia magazine on January 21,2014.
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Nora Aunor played the role of Celina Palomar, a famous singer who mysteriously disappeared at the height of her popularity.
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On February 2,2014, Nora Aunor received her second Ani ng Dangal Award from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts or NCCA.
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Nora Aunor made four films in 2014 and one of them was Hustisya, which is part of the 10th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.
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Nora Aunor gave a speech about how she became a singer, an actress, and eventually a movie producer.
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In 2012, Nora Aunor received the Asian Achiever Award as Asia's Best Actress Awardee by the Asia Pacific Awards Council led by noted Filipino consumers advocate Jonathan Navea.
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Nora Aunor again received the same prestigious accolade during the 26th Asia Pacific Excellence Awards on Araw ng Kagitingan on April 9,2015, held at the AFP Theater commemorating the SAF 44 Heroes Tribute organized by the same organization together with Japanese performing artist Aisaku Yokogawa.
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On March 17,2015, Nora Aunor publicly called for President Noynoy Aquino's resignation.
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On May 16,2015, Nora Aunor won her eighth International Best actress for her film Dementia which won the Best Foreign Language Film at the St Tropez International Film Festival in France.
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Nora Aunor was not there to personally receive her award but it was accepted by its director Perci Intalan who was elated for the recognition.
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Nora Aunor won another international award in 2015, when she was bestowed the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 ASEAN International Film Festival and Awards.
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In 2015, Nora Aunor was recognized by several universities and colleges in the Philippines, naming her as a cultural Icon.
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On September 17,2015, Nora Aunor was conferred the Gawad CPP para sa Sining for Film and Broadcast Arts by the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
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In May 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 global pandemic, Nora Aunor starred in an online monologue, Lola Doc, on Tanghalang Pilipino's YouTube channel.
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In 2021, Nora Aunor was chosen as one of the Best Actors and Actresses of the Decade by the Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino, the Filipino film critics group who hands out the Gawad Urian Award.
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In late 2021, Nora Aunor tackled her first film role as a villain or antagonist in the film Kontrabida, directed by Adolfo Alix Jr.
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In March 2023, Nora Aunor filmed Pieta, a drama-thriller which reunited Nora Aunor with director Adolfo Alix Jr.
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In 1983, Nora Aunor was recognized as one of The Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service in the Field of the Arts.
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In 1999, Nora Aunor received the Centennial Honors for the Arts awarded by the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
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Nora Aunor was the only film actress included in the list of awardees.
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In 2014, Nora Aunor is the recipient of University of the Philippines College of Mass Communications, Gawad Plaridel Award.
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On September 17,2015, Nora Aunor was conferred the Gawad CCP para sa Sining for Film and Broadcast Arts, the highest award given by the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
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Nora Aunor was conferred of the Gusi Peace Prize in 2015.
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In 2022, Nora Aunor was conferred The Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts.
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Since the late 1960s up to the present, Nora Aunor has made more than 180 films in different genres, from musicals, comedy, romantic comedy, romance and Love story.
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Nora Aunor has received recognition for the outstanding box-office performances of her films.
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Nora Aunor has won the Philippine Box Office Queen Award in the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
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For being the consummate actor, Nora Aunor has received numerous national and international awards and nominations.
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Nora Aunor was named Best Actress for Thy Womb at the Asian Film Awards and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and given the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 by the ASEAN International Film Festival and Awards.
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Nora Aunor has been directed by four Philippine National Artist Awardees: Gerardo de Leon, Lamberto Avellana, Lino Brocka, and Ishmael Bernal.
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Nora Aunor has released more than 360 singles and recorded more than 200 songs and over 50 albums.
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Nora Aunor has notched more than 30 gold singles and with an estimated gross sales of one million units, Nora's cover of "Pearly Shells" is one of the biggest-selling singles in the Philippines.
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Nora Aunor has performed in three plays: Minsa'y Isang Gamu-Gamo, DH in 1992, and The Trojan Women.
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At the peak of her career, Nora Aunor was the top product endorser for television, print, and radio advertisements.
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Nora Aunor has been awarded, recognized and received multiple nominations from different organizations, academe, institutions, critics and award giving bodies for her work in film, television, music and theater.
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Nora Aunor is the most nominated actress for the leading role in the long history of FAMAS Awards, having nominated 17 times since 1973 when she was first nominated for A Gift of Love but only second to Eddie Garcia with 23 nominations both in leading and supporting role.
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Nora Aunor is the only performer in the history of FAMAS Awards to be nominated for 15 straight years from 1973 to 1987.
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Nora Aunor has more international best actress awards and nominations more than any other Filipino actor.
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Nora Aunor is the only Filipino actress who have won international awards from 5 different continents.
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In 1968, Nora Aunor was contracted by Alpha Records upon the recommendation of singer Carmen Soriano.
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Nora Aunor is the artist with the most singles in Philippine recording history.
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Nora Aunor has notched more than 30 gold singles, a record in the local music industry.
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Nora Aunor has recorded some 46 hit long-playing albums, and several extended plays.