Oscar Hernández (musician) Oscar Hernández (musician) Oscar Hernández (born March 22, 1954) is an American pianist, arranger and producer of Puerto Rican descent. Hernández's family moved to the United States from Puerto Rico in the 1940s, in search of a better way of life. They settled down in the South Bronx, a ghetto, which is a section that is heavily populated by latinos in New York where Hernández was born. Hernández who was the youngest of eleven siblings, received his primary and secondary education in the city's public school system. As a child he was exposed to the music of Tito Puente, Tito
Quills director Philip Kaufman's approach as "brutally horrific, vulgarly unamusing," creating a film that succeeds only as "soft-gore porn." Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" dismissed the film as an "overripe contrivance masquerading as high art", while de Sade biographer Neil Schaeffer in "The Guardian" criticized the film for historical inaccuracies and for simplifying de Sade's complex life (see below). Although not winning any major awards, "Quills" was prominently nominated several times. "Quills" received three Oscar nominations at the 73rd Annual Academy Awards for Actor in a Leading Role (Geoffrey Rush, previous winner for 1996's "Shine"), Art Direction (Art: Martin