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Steven Spielberg’s War Horse bags six Oscar
nominations
Anil Ambani owned Reliance DreamWorks garners 11
Oscar Nominations for 3 films
War Horse bags six nominations at the 84th Academy
Awards that were announced recently.
Oscar Winning director, Steven Spielberg is back again with an emotional epic on
a classic scale in DreamWorks & Reliance Entertainment’s War Horse which will
release in India on 10th February.
When the nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards were announced in
January 2012, War Horse bagged six nominations. Oscar Nomination for the Best
Picture - Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy, Cinematography- Janusz Kaminski,
Art Direction- Rick Carter (Production design) and Lee Sandales (Set
Decoration), Music - Original Score - John Williams, Sound Editing- Richard
Hymns and Gary Rydstrom, Sound Mixing- Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson
and Stuart Wilson.
After releasing in the US on 25th December to
extremely good reviews from critics and audience alike, the film opened in the
UK on 13th January. The film even won the Best Cinematography Award at the
recently concluded 17th Critics Choice Awards.
War Horse, a story of friendship and war, first became a well-loved family book,
then an innovative stage play that took audiences by storm and now it sees
another incarnation in its most visceral medium yet.
Steven Spielberg did not want to sign a known face for
the role of Albert, “I auditioned hundreds boys for the role of Albert and right
in the middle of the search process, we found Jeremy. And then we moved on to
see if anybody else could match him. And several months later, we came back to
Jeremy, realizing that he was the best person for the part.”
“What’s fantastic about Steven is that he gives you enough space to work and
have your own margins of experimentation on things. Everything that Steven
Spielberg does has a realism to it. The most incredible thing about working with
Steven Spielberg is that you get the best people in the world working with you.
There’s no doing things by halves.
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War Horse is set against a
sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the
First World War. It begins with the remarkable friendship
between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert
played by Jeremy Irvine as he tames and trains Joey. When
they are forcefully parted, the film follows the
extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the
war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he
meets — British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French
farmer and his granddaughter — before the story reaches
its emotional climax in the heart of No Man’s Land.
“ War Horse says a lot about courage; the courage of this
boy and what he endures and what he overcomes to achieve
what he needs and not just for himself but also for his
best friend, his horse Joey. It’s also about the courage
and the tenacity of this extraordinary animal. The theme
of courage kept coming back and back from the play, from
Michael Morpurgo’s book and from Lee Hall and Richard
Curtis’ screenplay. That was the underlying subliminal
theme that I think informs every frame of War Horse”, says
the director.
Everything is done the best
way it can possibly be done,” says Jeremy Irvine who sure
was elated to have landed the role of Albert in the film.
The First World War is experienced through the journey of
this horse—an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate
friendship and high adventure. War Horse an epic adventure
for audiences of all ages releases in India on February
10th 2012.
(Glitterati Entertainment
Solutions)
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