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Live Poll: Ireland at the Oscars (Updated)
Ireland will have quite a showing at this year's Oscars. Which of the nominated movies or actors from Ireland do you think is most deserving?
List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls564870087/
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/zD8Z0ClvJ4s/?ref_=po_ho
Note: I will edit the tenses in the introduction and descriptions if it doesn't go live by Sunday. It's been updated and I think it's ready.
Dibyayan_Chakravorty
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Quiet Girl.
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urbanemovies
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Just a thought, the poll title, Ireland at the Oscars implies the poll has an all-time scope, when it is limited to the current year, wouldn't Ireland at the 2023 Oscars be better. It also would prevent any confusion, if someone choses to do a poll suggestion with an all-time scope in the future.
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rubyfruit76
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'An Update on my concern discussed in the above response to seoweboptions' post:
I actually had twelve of the fourteen nominations in my list and I found a source that confirmed that Richard Baneham is one of the Irish nationals nominated (for his work on 'Avatar: The Way of Water' in Visual Effects) so I added him to the list with an unfortunately less-than-great photo. At the end of the introduction, I note an explanation for the one missing nomination, which I searched for again, in all categories and via many different news articles, as well, but to no avail. If I do find the mystery nod, I'll add it.
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rubyfruit76
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@seoweboptions I saw this, too, when I was researching this poll. I love that it points out that Irish actors have 25% of the acting nominations and that this year marks the first time a film in Gaelic has been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Even though I adored the Belgian film 'Close,' I think I'm rooting for 'Quiet Girl' because it, too, is excellent but also because most of it is in a language that was all but lost to colonization.
The part that is throwing me fora loop is that it points out that Ireland received 14 Oscar nominations this year. I saw this noted by other sources, as well, although none quite as reliable as the very credible Reuters, but no one lists what all of them are. The most specific that I found named or hinted at the eleven that my list has plus vaguely referencing nomination(s) "in Visual Effects." Since none of the films nominated for Visual Effects are Irish, I assumed perhaps they meant three people so I did a good bit of research and the only information that I found that possibly gives some clues as to who those people may be follows:
- Richard Baneham (born in Dublin; visual effects for 'Avatar' along with three other people, two of whom are not Irish and one with not enough information anywhere to surmise nationality)
- Anders Langlands (now lives in NZ; born ?; surname Scottish; visual effects for 'The Batman,' with three other people)
- Daniel Barrett (no info; surname Irish; visual effects for 'Avatar' along with three other people, two of whom are not Irish and one who is)
I don't find this information convincing, though.
Given this, I feel more comfortable leaving the poll as it is than guessing. The poll may be considered a bit incomplete if one includes an Irish individual working among a group of people on a movie that is not Irish. I'll probably add a note.
Does anyone have any other information? Otherwise, does anyone consider the poll to be incomplete or have any suggestions?
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@rubyfruit76
Several articles list Baneham for visual effects and the editor Jonathan Redmond.
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Jonathan Redmond from Sandycove, Ireland (a suburb of Dublin). The Irish national film editor seems to work out NYC now. The Irish Times, The Anglo-Celt and other Irish websites all seem to have detailed accountings.
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rubyfruit76
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Ah, 'finished. Thank you, Peter and Urb, for your valuable help. : )
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@rubyfruit76 Since the ceremony is over, maybe you should change the first line to a past tense.
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Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/zD8Z0ClvJ4s/
Congratulations Sara.
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@rubyfruit76
FYC, they say better late than never. There are some post-Oscar better individual images and Oscar-winning images for some of your Irish answer options, if you are interested.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14625872/mediaindex/?ref_=tt_mv_sm
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0975108/mediaindex/?ref_=nm_mv_sm
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051824/mediaindex/?ref_=nm_mi_sm
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