Hours after learning she had snagged an Oscar nomination for best animated feature, stunned Toronto filmmaker Domee Shi said the nod offered welcome…
The Pixar writer-director spotlights the coming-of-age anxiety of a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl in “Turning Red,” and is among a select group of Canadians up for Oscar glory including fellow Torontonian Sarah Polley who vies for best picture and best adapted screenplay with her drama “Women Talking.”Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“It’s that validation, but it’s also this evidence just to show big studios that look: You can make universal stories that star a diverse protagonist and feature a diverse creative leadership and these stories are universal stories.” “I really didn’t plan this day right,” she tweeted with a photo of herself in a mask, in what appeared to be a waiting room.
Shi’s film, about a girl who discovers she has the ability to turn into a giant red panda, is up against fellow Sheridan College alum Chris Williams of Kitchener, Ont., who directed “Sea Beast,” an animated feature about a crew of sea monster hunters.
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