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Feb.6,2005 -Feb.13,2005 |
Scorsese epic flies high
The Aviator brings the esteemed director his fifth nomination
Originally Published: 2005-01-30
Martin Scorsese's epic The Aviator flew high at the Academy, adding no fewer than 11 nominations to its prestigious statuettes. The biopic on Howard Hughes is the obvious favourite; in addition to the nomination for Best Picture, The Aviator has brought Scorsese his fifth nomination as Best Director (which he's never won before), while three of his actors are running for Best Actor awards: Leonardo DiCaprio as Lead Actor, and Alan Alda and Cate Blanchett as Supporting Actor and Actress. Italy's Dante Ferretti, Art Director of the movie, has been nominated, as well as his wife, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Set Decorator.
The Italian candidate for Best Foreign Language Film, Gianni Amelio's The House Keys, did not make it to the final five, which include Spain's The Sea Inside and France's The Chorus.
Canada is Oscar-bound this year, thanks mainly to a pair of short films co-produced by the National Film Board.
Ryan is writer-director Chris Landreth's innovative use of digital animation to look at the career and tragic decline of Ryan Larkin, himself a former NFB animator who, after bouts with cocaine and alcohol, ended up a panhandler on the streets of Montreal.
Ryan has already won more than 30 international awards, from Cannes to Canada.
Speaking from Park City, Utah, where he's attending the Sundance film festival, Landreth said the news Tuesday morning was probably the most important development yet for his much-lauded film.
Landreth was also nominated in the animated short category in 1996 for The End.
Hardwood, written and directed by Hubert Davis, was nominated in the documentary short category. Making his directorial debut, Vancouver native Davis, son of former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis, uses interviews as well as archival and home movies to explore his father's relationship with his family.
Davis's documentary looks at his father, a Globetrotter for 18 years during the 1960s and '70s. "I just felt ... his life story was pretty amazing, growing up in the slums of Chicago and then escaping to travel the world with basketball," he explained. "It then just developed more into a story about family and the choices that my dad made in life and how that affected my family."
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