Latino artists in the United States accounted for about half of this year’s Golden Globe awards categories, including nine nominations.

Their nominations show a younger generation of Hollywood, as six of them are under 40. They also echo a broader national standard, showing Latinos as the second youngest racial or ethnic group in the United States, with an average age of 30, NBC News reported.

Several of them received their first Golden Globe nominations this year, most of them for major roles in film or TV.

Jenna Ortega, 20, received her first Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Wednesday Addams in the Netflix horror and comedy series “Wednesday”, which follows the journey of the iconic “Addams Family” at Nevermore Academy as she investigates a spree of murders.

“The show became the second most-watched series on Netflix after it premiered in November. It was also nominated for best TV musical or comedy TV series”, according to NBC.

Another first-time nominee in the same category as Ortega is Selena Gomez, who was nominated for her performance as Mabel Mora  in the satire “Only Murders in the Building”.  She, who has roots in Mexico, also serves as the show's executive producer alongside her castmates.

Also joining the club of first-time Latino Golden Globe nominees are Aubrey Plaza, Diego Calva and Diego Luna.

“Plaza, 38, who is half Puerto-Rican, was nominated for best supporting actress in a limited series for her performance as Harper in HBO Max’s ‘The White Lotus’, which follows the exploits of various guests and employees at a luxurious Sicilian resort.

Diego Calva, 30, landed his first Golden Globe nomination for his performance as Manny Torres in "Babylon," a movie directed by Damien Chazelle about ordinary people who became Hollywood legends during the golden age of silent films in the 1920s. Born in Mexico, the actor plays a fictional character who works his way up from assistant to silent movie producer.

“Luna, 43, was nominated for best performance by an actor in a TV drama series for his role as Cassian Andor in Disney+'s ‘Andor’, which is part of the Star Wars cinematic universe”.

“The Mexican actor first played Cassian Andor in 2017’s ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’, making him the franchise’s first Latino lead. Since then, Latino actors, such as Pedro Pascal and Rosario Dawson, have landed lead roles within the franchise, Pascal in ‘The Mandalorian’ and Dawson in ‘Ahsoka’,” according to the same publication.

Two other young Latinas, Anya Taylor-Joy and Ana de Armas landed best performance nominations for their leading movie roles.

De Armas, 34, born in Cuba, earned her second Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Marilyn Monroe in Netflix's somewhat controversial NC-17 psychodrama “Blonde”, a fictionalized chronicle of the Hollywood icon’s private life and pop culture of the 1950s and 1960s.

Taylor-Joy, 26, earned her third Golden Globe nomination for her performance as Margot Mills in “The Menu”. The actress, of Argentine and British descent, won her first Golden Globe as best actress in a limited series for her performance as chess prodigy Beth Harmon in Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” in 2021.

Award-winning Mexican director and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro received two nominations for his reinterpretation of the classic short story “Pinocchio”.

According to the publication, “Del Toro, 58, was nominated for best original song in a motion picture. He is credited for writing the lyrics to the film’s original song, ‘Ciao Papa’, alongside Roeban Katz. The stop-motion animation Netflix film written and directed by Del Toro was also nominated for best animated motion picture”.

“Argentina, 1985” by Argentine filmmaker Santiago Mitre, with the praised performance of Argentine Ricardo Darín, was nominated in the same category this year and took the award.

The Golden Globe awards ceremony aired on the night of January 10 on NBC, marking the 80th anniversary of the awards ceremony.