This heartfelt comedy is nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing.
This morning, the nominations for the 96th Oscars were announced, and holdover– directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson – received five.
The title was nominated for Best Picture, Paul Giamatti for Best Actor, Da’Vine Joy Randolph for Best Supporting Actress, Hemingson for Best Original Screenplay, and Kevin Tant (ACE) for Best Film Editing. .
Da’Vine Joey Randolph, Paul Giamatti, and Dominic Cessa holdover,
In reference to his nomination, Giamatti said, “I’m really amazed by the news this morning. It’s an incredible honor to be acknowledged by the Academy in this way. And it’s a wonderful thrill to be a part of such a wonderful Hollywood tradition.” I’m so happy for this beautiful film, for the entire cast and incredible crew, for the great people at Focus, for our producer Mark Johnson, writer David Hemingson and me. holdover Family, Da’Vine and Dominic. Alexander Payne has been an incredible friend and collaborator, and I will always be grateful to him for giving me the kind of role that every actor hopes to play. My love and thanks to all!”
Hemmingson said, “I am thrilled and honored to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with so many amazing films. I would like to thank my good friends and fellow holdovers, Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Kevin So happy for the tent. Much love and pride to our director, the brilliant Alexander Payne, who made this dream come true and without whom none of this would have happened. Dominic Cessa: You are a young talented man with great hair, and I Love You. Thank you to Mark Johnson, Focus Features and Miramax, and a big thank you to the Academy for warmly embracing our story of three broken people stranded on an icy island who find love and create a family. Are.
Regarding the Best Picture nomination, producer Mark Johnson said, “I’m really grateful for our film holdover It was one of the strongest years for movies in quite some time, with so many nominations awarded. Alexander Payne’s singular vision compelled us all to create a complex film that taps into what we all have in common and leads audiences into a light of both forgiveness and compassion. We can’t thank the Academy enough for taking to heart a film that reminds us what it means to be human, both painful and glorious.”
And Tenet also shared these sentiments, saying, “There is nothing better than being nominated by one’s peers. I am incredibly grateful and thrilled beyond belief. Working with Alexander Payne is the best. Our The ongoing collaboration really means the world to me. I know I speak for the totality holdover When I say family, we couldn’t be prouder of our film, the way it has been accepted and now the Academy has accepted it.”
holdover It follows a stubborn instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a prep school in New England who is forced to stay on campus during the Christmas holidays to care for a handful of students who have no place to go. Not there. He eventually forms an unlikely bond with one of them – a damaged, brainwashed troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Cessa) – and with the school’s head cook, who has recently lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph. ).
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