Hours after learning she had snagged an Oscar nomination for best animated feature, stunned Toronto filmmaker Domee Shi said the nod offered welcome “validation” that stories led by diverse characters can succeed.
Shi said the honour was especially meaningful because “Turning Red” represented so many firsts in her career, including Pixar’s first film to be led by a predominantly female team and the first film to have an Asian Canadian female lead. It centres on a group of Mennonite women who gather in a hayloft to discuss what to do when they discover several of the colony’s men have been sexually assaulting the community’s women and girls.
Polley was previously nominated for best adapted screenplay for 2007’s “Away From Her,” about a long-married couple impacted by Alzheimer’s disease. Meanwhile, Montreal’s Ina Fichman is among a team named in the best documentary feature race for their Canadian-U.S. film “Fire of Love.” The National Geographic project is about French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion.
Really, Shi? You're a brilliant director, why do you need to make this ABOUT your race and/or gender? Girls are just normal people, it's about time we started treating them that way.
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