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Fox CEO Talks About Pushing Ahead With Oscar Campaign For Andy Caesar Serkis |
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011 02:06 |
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"I think we may be at the place where we will see a first-ever in Hollywood this year, which is to see Andy Serkis get nominated for a best supporting actor for Planet of the Apes, even though his face never actually appears," Rothman told The Hollywood Reporter at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. "But his performance appears, so we are going to push that hard." When it was released back in August, Serkis' performance in Rise of the Planet of the Apes was praised almost unanimously by critics, but so was his work as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, a series of movies which at the time saw him snubbed by the Academy.
"Who knows, but I give the Academy much more credit than most people do," Rothman said of the lack of nominations for motion capture work in the past. "I don't think they are old and stodgy. Read more: |
