Irish films nominated for Academy Awards 2010 February 3, 2010
Posted by gem in FILM NEWS, IRISH CINEMA.Tags: academy awards, animation, Avatar, Film, granny o grimm, Irish film., movies, muareen o'hara, nominations, Oscars, short film., The Door, the quiet man, The Secret of Kells, Up
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Granny heads off to get ready for the Oscars
A number of Irish films, two animated, have received nominations for this year’s Academy Awards. The Secret of Kells (Tom Moore) is to be found in the Animated Feature Film section, while the highly amusing Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty (Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’ Connell) made the shortlist for Short Film (Animated). Meanwhile Juanita Wilson and James Flynn saw their live action short, The Door nominated in its relevant category. The Door is the moving tale of a family affected by the Chernobyl disaster, based on a true account.
This year marks a change in the oscar noms as there are now 10 Best Picture nominations, in comparison to the five of previous ceremonies. The reasoning behind this was that more scope for nominations would open up the Best Picture category to genres of film that are usually ignored. This year already sees two sci-fi movies (Avatar and District 9), as well as an animated film (Up) up for a Best Picture gong.
There’s no news as of yet on the Lifetime Achievement award, but there’s still
- Maureen O’Hara
the possibility that Maureen O’Hara might be this year’s recipient. (*This award, officially entitled an Academy Honorary Award, is now presented at a seperate ceremony in November. Read about the 2009 winners here.) Members of The Quiet Man Movie Club certainly hope so, the chairperson of which, Prof. Des MacHale from Cork City, wrote to the Academy asking if they would consider her for an award. He has asked the public to do the same by emailing the Academy at the address on their website. His own letter has been acknowledged and taken into consideration. This year sees Maureen O’ Hara celebrate her 90th birthday. Originally from Dublin, she reached Hollywood heights at a young age, starring in such movies as Miracle on 34th Street, How Green Was My Valley and of course, The Quiet Man.
Beyond the Oscar nominations, other events also take place around awards time, such as these Student Academy Awards.
Finally, I for one was glad to see Wallace and Gromit’s A Matter of Loaf and Death nominated in the Best Animated Short category. Smashing!
The reason there was no mention of the Lifetime Achievement awards is that they’ve already been presented! In their ongoing efforts to make the Oscars telecast shorter and even less interesting, these awards got punted to their own event. All these years waiting for Roger Corman to get an Oscar and then when he does it’s not even at the main event!
Irving G. Thalberg award went to John Calley, with honorary Oscars to Roger Corman, Gordon Willis and Lauren Bacall. There are videos of the presentations somewhere on the web but I can’t remember where.
Great to see the three Irish films in there, all three very deserving indeed. Can’t disagree about Wallace and Gromit either though!
Well aren’t I red in the face! I swear I checked that Academy site..and even spotted that Lauren Bacall had recieved an award out of the corner of my eye, but I thought it was another event..rather like the way the Sci-tech awards and student awards are seperate. They probably had to cut out something now that they have ten Best Film nominations to get through. Ah well perhaps Maureen O’Hara will be remembered next year. Thanks for that!