Exclusive: Quvenzhané Wallis talks Oscar NominationPosted by Wilson Morales
February 1, 2013
Most recently, Blackfilm.com had a chance to speak with Quvenzhané Wallis, the amazing young talent and star of the critically acclaimed and Oscar nominated film, ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild.’
Not only did the film receive multiple nominations, but Wallis was among the recipients, thus achieving a status no had done before, becoming the youngest actress (at age 9) ever to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Among the many accolades the Louisiana native has won, she took home the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer earlier this month, and is also nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture and an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead.
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl named Hushpuppy exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
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