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12 OSCARS, 76 NOMINATIONS

Feb 8, 2022 – Montreal – National Motion picture Board of Canada (NFB)

Joanna Quinn and Les Mills' Affairs of the Art (Beryl Productions International/National Film Board of Canada) has been nominated for Best Blithe Short Flick at the Academy Awards.

2nd Oscar nomination for Quinn, 1st for Mills and 76th for the NFB

Press kit: mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/affairs-of-the-art
Trailer: youtu.exist/due south-xXpYGNPmk
Artistic Process: youtu.be/EW9H5Wu2ujg

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"Nosotros are admittedly thrilled and delighted to hear that our film has got a nomination—information technology's the fulfillment of a dream that we've had since nosotros first started making films. We are peculiarly grateful to our Canadian co-producers at the NFB for their unstinting back up, professionalism, and expertise throughout the whole product process—a meg cheers to them and, of form, to all of our fantastic production crew in Wales."

—Joanna Quinn and Les Mills

About the nomination

This is the second trip to the Oscars for Quinn, whose animated shortFamous Fred(1996) was nominated at the 70th Academy Awards. Mills was the producer ofWife of Bath – The Canterbury Tales, nominated the following year, but it's his first time as an official Oscar nominee. It's also the third Oscar-nominated film produced by Michael Fukushima, who retired from the NFB in March 2021 after 23 years at the NFB's English Programme Animation Studio.

Since making her first award-winning film,Girls Night Out(1987), which introduced audiences to working-class heroine Beryl, Joanna Quinn has become i of Britain's most distinctive animators. Quinn and her writing and producing partner, Les Mills, created three more films almost Beryl: Body Beautiful(1990),Dreams and Desires: Family Ties (2006) and at present Affairs of the Fine art , which was produced by Mills (Beryl Productions International) and Michael Fukushima (NFB).

The NFB is bringing all Canadians into the Oscar commemoration with free streaming of Affairs of the Art  from February eight to March 27 on NFB.ca. The picture show tin also be streamed for free in Canada and the U.s.a. onThe New Yorker screening room.

This is the 76th nomination for the NFB, which has received more Academy Honour nominations than any other film organization based outside of Hollywood.  NFB productions and co-productions have won the big prize on 12 occasions.

Quick facts

Affairs of the Art
 A picture by Joanna Quinn and Les Mills
A co-production between Beryl Productions International Ltd (Les Mills) and the National Film Lath of Canada (Michael Fukushima).
Press kit:mediaspace.nfb.ca/epk/affairs-of-the-art

Highlights:

  • Beryl'southward back inDiplomacy of the Art, which showcases ane family unit'due south eccentric yet endearing obsessions with everything from drawing to spiral threads and pet taxidermy.
  • Affairs of the Fine art  was supported by a stellar Canadian artistic crew, including Olivier Calvert, sound designer on Sylvain Bellemare'southward squad for the Denis Villeneuve picture showArrival, which won the Oscar for Sound Editing in 2017, and foley creative person Nicolas Gagnon.
  • The vox cast features Menna Trussler (Beryl), Brendan Charleson (Ifor and Colin), Joanna Quinn (Beverly) and Mali Ann Rees (Mum and Edie).
  • Since its debut at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Motion-picture show Festival in January 2021, where it won the Best Animation award, Affairs of the Art  has been screened at more than than65 festivals and picked upwardly27 awards, including:
    • the Special Jury Distinction for Direction, Short Film, at the Annecy International Animation Moving picture Festival;
    • the Jury Honour in the Comedy category at Aspen Shortsfest;
    • the Audience Award at the New York City Brusque Movie Festival;
    • and the Aureate Hugo for Best Animated Short Film at the Chicago International Film Festival.

About the 94th Academy Awards

The 94th Oscars will be held on Sun, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than than 200 territories worldwide.

OSCAR®-WINNING FILMS

  • Honorary Academy Laurels

    Overall excellence in cinema

    The NFB has received 12 Oscars, including a 1989 Honorary Academy Honor for overall excellence in picture palace, and has amassed more Academy Award nominations than any other film organisation based outside of Hollywood.

  • The Danish Poet

    Academy Honor® for Best Blithe Short Moving-picture show

  • Ryan

    Academy Award® for All-time Animated Short Moving-picture show

  • Bob's Birthday

    University Laurels® for Best Animated Short Moving-picture show

  • Flamenco at 5:15

    Academy Accolade® for All-time Documentary (Short Subject)

  • If You lot Dear This Planet

    Academy Award® for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • Every Kid

    Academy Honor® for Best Blithe Brusk Film

  • Special Delivery

    Academy Award® for All-time Animated Curt Film

  • The Sand Castle

    Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Pic

  • I'll Find a Fashion

    University Award® for Best Live Activity Curt Motion-picture show

  • Neighbours

    Academy Accolade® for Best Documentary (Short Discipline)

  • Churchill's Island

    Academy Honor® for All-time Documentary (Brusk Field of study)

COMPLETE LIST OF OUR OSCAR® NOMINATIONS

  • Affairs of the Fine art

  • Animal Behaviour

  • Bullheaded Vaysha

  • Me and My Moulton

  • Wild Life

  • Dominicus

  • Madame Tutli-Putli

  • The Danish Poet

  • Hardwood

  • Ryan

  • Strange Invaders

  • My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts

  • When the Twenty-four hours Breaks

  • Sunrise Over Tiananmen Foursquare

  • La Salla

  • Bob'south Birthday

  • The Colours of My Male parent: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein

  • Blackfly

  • Strings

  • Jesus of Montreal

  • The True cat Came Dorsum

  • George and Rosemary

  • The Decline of the American Empire

  • The Large Snit

  • The Painted Door

    Bruce Pittman, 1984, 23 min

  • Paradise

  • Flamenco at 5:fifteen

  • The Profession of Arms

    Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen, 1983, 56 min

  • If You Love This Planet

  • Afterwards the Axe

  • Get-go Wintertime

  • The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

  • Every Child

  • Going the Distance

  • Bravery in the Field

  • Nails

  • Special Delivery

  • I'll Observe a Way

  • Loftier Grass Circus

  • The Sand Castle

  • Dewdrop Game

  • Volcano: An Research into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry

  • The Street

  • Blackwood

  • Monsieur Pointu

  • Whistling Smith

  • The Family unit That Dwelt Apart

  • Hunger

  • Evolution

  • Blake

  • Walking

  • The House that Jack Built

  • Pas de deux

  • Paddle to the Sea

  • What on World!

  • The Drag

  • Helicopter Canada

  • Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

  • Christmas Cracker

  • My Fiscal Career

  • Very Nice, Very Nice

  • Universe

  • The Living Rock

  • A Chairy Tale

  • City of Gold

  • The Stratford Adventure

  • Herring Hunt

  • Neighbours

  • The Romance of Transportation in Canada

  • The Fight: Science Against Cancer

  • The Rising Tide

  • Inside Fighting Red china

  • High Over the Borders

  • Warclouds in the Pacific

  • Churchill's Island