Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem Welcome a Baby Boy

Tuesday was an extraordinary day in the Cruz/Bardem household, as Javier Bardem was nominated for an Academy Award and became a father. He and his wife, actress Penelope Cruz, welcomed a baby boy into the world.

The couple, who met while filming "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" three years ago, married secretly last summer just before Cruz debuted her baby bump. The actress was able to keep her pregnancy under wraps while filming the next installment of the swashbuckling flick, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides".

Reports from Spanish newspaper El Pais first broke the news of the birth followed by an announcement from Hola! Magazine, another Spanish publication, that the baby was a boy.

Bardem was nominated for his third Oscar for Actor in a Leading Role in the film, "Biutiful," which is also nominated in the Best Foreign Language film.

Congrats to the proud family on your new baby and nomination! Felicitaciones!

A complete list of 2011 Academy Award nominees can be found here.