No Luck For Wolfwalkers At The Oscars
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Kilkenny-based animation studio Cartoon Saloon missed out on an Oscar at last night s Academy Awards.
The group s film Wolfwalkers lost out to Pixar s Soul in the Animated Feature category.
The makers of the film stayed up into the early hours of this morning for a live-stream from Kilkenny Castle.
Nomadland won best picture, Frances McDormand won best actress for her role in the movie
And Chloe Zhao has made history by becoming the first woman from an ethnically diverse community and only the second woman ever to win best director for Nomadland.
Who won the Oscars? Full list of winners, including Best Actor, Best Picture and Best Actress
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CONGRATS ON YOUR OSCAR, DANIEL!!!!
By Rachel LeishmanApr 25th, 2021, 8:53 pm
It’s truly great to see an actor sweep an awards for a role they absolutely smashed and that’s what happened with Daniel Kaluuya this year. Playing Fred Hampton in
Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya has been taking in win after win this season and he just took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his work and as he should.
Kaluuya is one of our greatest actors. Whether you know him from his work on
Skins or came into Kaluuya with
Get Out and
Widows, he shows us time and time again just how talented he is. And I’m so happy that he got the Oscar for
Even after recent dramas – #OscarsSoWhite controversies and the fiasco when
La La Land was wrongly named best picture – an Academy Award remains the ultimate prize in the movie industry.
It’s a validation of excellence that comes with more than 90 years of history, celebrity and glamour – as emotional as winning an Olympic gold medal for everyone from famous directors and actors to unknown visual effects technicians, make-up artists and the creators of animated shorts.
How do you win one of these?
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Part of the cachet is mixing with the movie elite at a ceremony in Los Angeles every February or March (moved to April this year because of the pandemic). But Oscars are also famously hard to win. Some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa – have never won best director. And while it might change this year, American director Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to have won
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