Irish animation Song Of The Sea is up for an Oscar.
It’s directed by Tomm Moore (of The Secret of Kells) and features the voices of Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle, Lisa Hannigan, Pat Shortt and Jon Kenny. Music is by composer Bruno Coulais and band Kíla.
Yay!
Watch nominations being revealed live here
Pic via The Academy
UPDATE:
Northern Irish short film Boogaloo And Graham is also up for a gong.
It was directed by Michael Lennox, written by Ronan Blaney and stars Martin McCann, Charlene McKenna, Riley Hamilton and Aaron Lynch. It tells the tale of how two young boys in the Seventies in Belfast grow up with their chickens.
Yay!
UPDATE:
John Carney’s song Lost Stars, in his film Begin Again – which stars Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo – is up for Best Original Song.
Yay!
Read a full list of Oscar nominations here
Might be a bit of a big ask, but any chance you could tell us who actually sings the song?
Adam Levine sings it, it was written by Gregg Alexander from the New Radicals. He also wrote most of Ronan Keating’s solo career.
Life IS a rollercoshter.
‘Song of the Sea’ better win!
Good luck to ’em all !
Also ‘Leviathan’, nominated for best foreign feature (and winner of a golden globe in the same category), had some post production carried out in Dublin.
Windmill Lane Studios.
The Lego Movie didn’t get nominated? Jeepers!
Good luck to the Irish boys and girls anyway!
Surprised at that too, I thought it was ahem… awesome.
Yeah, no Lego movie nomination is pretty cr@ppy.
Ah here
How the ück does Everything Is Awesome Everything Is Awesome Everything Is Awesome Everything Is Awesome
Qualify as anything
Because it qualifies as being AWESOME !
I’m just here to help.
Here’s an experiment for ye all to try put
Every time you see hear say sing or read Awesome
Replace it with Savage
And vice versa
Anton Awesome
Better already
Deadly!
Won’t somebody think of poor Michael Bay?
The idea of Micahel Bay winning anything has been blown out of all proportion…. then it was washed away in a fast moving lava flow only for the lava to flow into the sea causing a tsunami that caused explosions on coastlines the world over which led to the spread of a mad man eating flesh disease that caused more explosions due to nuclear missile silo operators falling on their big red buttons simultaneously and in slow motion and all caught on AI operated gyroscopic CCTV cameras in super ultra HDDDDDDD4k definition !
That’s why, so there.
And sweaty lads taking off their shirts
Hi Mr Bay :)
20 actor/actress nominations in total.
All of them white.
Ugh.
Did Neville get called up for Mr Turner by any chance?
Obviously a zionist conspiracy.
RISE UP MY NUBIAN BROTHERS
Take it back to Tumblr fella.
Its a merotocracy. I can’t think of any perfromances by people of colour this year that surpass those nominated, but I’m open to debate.
*meritocracy.
Ah Kieran. I don’t normally do this but The Journal’s The Daily Edge actually does have the article you’re looking for.