The Quvenzhane Wallis Handbook - Everything you need to know about Quvenzhane Wallis

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Quvenzhané Wallis (pronounced /kw??v?n??ne?/; kwuh-ven-zhuh-nay; born August 28, 2003) is an American child actress. She is known for her leading role as Hushpuppy in the critically acclaimed drama film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), for which she became the youngest actress ever to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 04 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781486462377
• Langue: English
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Contents

Articles Quvenzhané Wallis Academy Award for Best Actress Beasts of the Southern Wild Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2012 Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Denver Film Critics Society Gotham Independent Film Awards 2012 Houma, Louisiana Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Twelve Years a Slave Twelve Years a Slave (film)

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Quvenzhané Wallis

Quvenzhané Wallis

Wallis at 2012 Cannes Film Festival

Born

Years active

[1] August 27, 2003 Houma, Louisiana, USA

2012–present

[2] Quvenzhané Wallis( pronounced /kwəˈvɛnʒəneɪ/;kwuh-VEN-zhuh-nayAugust 28, 2003) is an American; born child actress. She is known for her leading role as Hushpuppy in the critically acclaimed drama filmBeasts of the [3] Southern Wild(2012), for which she became the youngest actress ever to receive a nomination for the Academy [4][5] Award for Best Actress.

Life and career Wallis was born in Houma, Louisiana, the daughter of Qulyndreia, a teacher, and Venjie Wallis, Sr., a truck [1][6][7] driver. "Quven", the first part of her name, combines her parents' first names, while her mother has stated that [8] zhanémeans "fairy" in Swahili. Wallis, at age five, had to lie about her age to audition for her very first acting job—the starring role inBeasts of the Southern Wild—because the minimum age to be considered was six. She eventually beat out some 4,000 contenders for the role of Hushpuppy—the indomitable child prodigy and survivalist who lives with her dying father in the [9] backwoods bayou squalor of Louisiana. Director Benh Zeitlin told 'The Daily Beast' that when he auditioned Wallis, he immediately realized he'd discovered what he was looking for, and changed theBeastsscript to accommodate her strong-willed personality. Her reading ability, loud scream and the skill of burping on command impressed the director and won her the part. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2012 to rave reviews, winning the Grand Jury Prize. In May 2012, Wallis flew to France for the premiere of the film at the Cannes Film Festival. The film received much acclaim and praised Wallis for her outstanding performance and it went on to win the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for Best first Feature Film. On January 10, 2013, at age nine, Wallis became the Academy Awards' all-time youngest nominee for Best Actress and third youngest ever in all [10] [11] categories. However, she was just six during the filming. She is signed on to star in the upcoming Steve McQueen'sTwelve Years a Slavealongside Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt. The film in based on a novel of the same name. In 2013, she will collaborate with Sundance for the second time on a short film calledBoneshaker.

Filmography

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Year

2012

2013

2013

Title

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Boneshaker

Twelve Years a Slave

References

Role

Hushpuppy

Blessing

Elizabeth

Notes

African-American Film Critics Association for Best Breakthrough Performance Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Austin Film Critics Association Breakthrough Artist Award Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer Capri Hollywood Festival Award for Best Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Breakout Performance Hollywood Film Festival New Hollywood Award National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Actress New York Film Critics Online Award for Breakthrough Performance Santa Barbara International Film Festival—Virtuoso Award Satellite Award for Best Breakthrough Actress Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Women Film Critics for Best Youth Performance Pending—Academy Award for Best Actress Pending—Black Reel Award for Best Actress Pending—Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress Pending—Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead Pending—NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Nominated—Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Denver Film Critics Society for Best Actress Nominated—Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Gotham Award for Breakthrough Performance Nominated—Houston Film Critics Society for Best Actress Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Breakthrough Performance Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress Nominated—St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress Nominated—Utah Gateway Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Short film

Post-production

[1]Beasts of the Southern Wildpress release (http://www.festival-cannes.fr/assets/Image/Direct/045640.pdf) [2] See inogolo:how to pronounce Quvenzhané Wallis (http:/ /inogolo.com/pronunciation/d2318/Quvenzhané_Wallis). [3] Sparktech Software LLC. "Quvenzhané Conquers Hollywood: 20 Questions for the 8-year-old star ofBeasts of the Southern Wild—Inside Movies Since 1920" (http://www.boxoffice.com/articles/ 2012-06-quvenzhan-conquers-hollywood-20-questions-for-the-8-year-old-star-of-beasts-of-the-southern-wild). Boxoffice.com. . Retrieved December 14, 2012. [4] "Youngest v oldest actress vie for Oscar as Lincoln leads the pack" (http:/ /www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/film/oscars/article3653450. ece).The Times. . Retrieved 2013-01-10. [5] "Quvenzhané Wallis v Emmanuelle Riva: Best actress Oscar contested by oldest and youngest ever nominees" (http:/ /www.independent. co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/ quvenzhan-wallis-v-emmanuelle-riva--best-actress-oscar-contested-by-oldest-and-youngest-ever-nominees-8446248. html).The Independent. . Retrieved 2013-01-10. [6] Laura McKnight. "Houma girl to star in independent film" (http:/ /www.dailycomet.com/article/20100513/ARTICLES/100519731). DailyComet.com. . Retrieved December 14, 2012. [7] Ebert, Roger. "Quvenzhané. A small force of nature. - Roger Ebert's Journal" (http:/ /blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/06/ _quvenzhane_a_small_force_of_n.html). Blogs.suntimes.com. . Retrieved December 14, 2012.

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[8] Deadline, The. "OSCARS Interview: Quvenzhané Wallis" (http:/ /www.deadline.com/2012/11/oscars-interview-quvenzhane-wallis/). Deadline.com. . Retrieved December 14, 2012. [9] Truitt, Brian (June 26, 2012). "Quvenzhane Wallis makes 'Southern Wild' sing" (http:/ /usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/story/ 2012-06-27/quvenzhane-wallis-interview-beasts-of-the-southern-wild/ 55846540/1).USA TODAY. . Retrieved June 26, 2012. [10] Day, Patrick Kevin (January 10, 2013). "Oscar nominations: Quvenzhane Wallis is young but not youngest ever" (http:/ /www.latimes. com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-oscar-nominations-quvenzhane-wallis-20130110,0,726796. story).Los Angeles Times. . [11] Alexander, Bryan (January 10, 2013). "History-making Quvenzhane Wallis: 'This is special'" (http:/ /www.usatoday.com/story/life/ people/2013/01/10/quvenzhane-wallis-oscar-nomination-history/1823319/).USA Today. .

External links • Quvenzhané Wallis (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4832920/) at the Internet Movie Database

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Academy Award for Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress

Academy Award for Best Actress Awarded forBest Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Presented by

Country

Currently held by

Official website

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

United States

Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady(2011)

http://www.oscars.org

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Roleis one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Prior to the 49th Academy Awards ceremony (1976), this award was known as the Academy Award of Merit for Performance by an Actress. Since its inception, however, the award has commonly been referred to as the Oscar forBest Actress. While actresses are nominated for this award by Academy members who are actors and actresses themselves, winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.

History Throughout the past 84 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 85 Best Actress awards to 70 different actresses. Winners of this Academy Award of Merit receive the familiar Oscar statuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of film. The first recipient was Janet Gaynor, who was honored at the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (1929) for her performances inSeventh Heaven,Street Angel, andSunrise. The most recent recipient was Meryl Streep, who was honored at the 84th Academy Awards ceremony (2012) for her performance inThe Iron Lady. In the first three years of the Academy Awards, individuals such as actors and directors were nominated as the best in their categories. Then all of their work during the qualifying period (as many as three films, in some cases) was listed after the award. However, during the 3rd Academy Awards ceremony (1930), only one of those films was cited in each winner's final award, even though each of the acting winners had had two films following their names on the ballots. For the 4th Academy Awards ceremony (1931), this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Such nominations are limited to five per year. Until the 8th Academy Awards ceremony (1936), nominations for the Best Actress award were intended to include all actresses, whether the performance was in either a leading or supporting role. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony (1937), however, the Best Supporting Actress category was specifically introduced as a distinct award following complaints that the single Best Actress category necessarily favored leading performers with the most screen time. Currently, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, and Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role constitute the four Academy Awards of Merit for acting annually presented by AMPAS.

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Academy Award for Best Actress

Other awards for acting Actors have also received special awards, or Academy Honorary Awards, for acting in specific films (such as in the case of James Baskett, who received a special honorary award for Disney'sSong of the South). Child actors have also been awarded the Academy Juvenile Award.

Winners and nominees Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by year of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually (but not always) the film's year of release. For example, the Oscar for Best Actress of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. For the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929. Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

Winners are listed first inbold, followed by the other nominees.

1920s

1930s

Year

1927/28 (1st)

1928/29 (2nd)

Janet Gaynor

Louise Dresser

Gloria Swanson

Mary Pickford

Ruth Chatterton

Betty Compson

Actress

Film

Seventh Heaven

Street Angel

Sunrise

A Ship Comes In

Sadie Thompson

Coquette

Madame X

The Barker

Jeanne Eagels (posthumous nomination)The Letter

Corinne Griffith

Bessie Love

The Divine Lady

The Broadway Melody

Character

Diane

Angela

The Wife–Indre

Mrs. Pleznik

Sadie Thompson

Norma Besant

Jacqueline Floriot

Carrie

Leslie Crosbie

Emma, Lady Hamilton

Hank Mahoney

5

Joyce Heath

Gemma Jones

Min Divot, Innkeeper

Norma Shearer

Carole Lombard

Katharine Hepburn (3rd)

Claudette Colbert

Jan Ashe

Emma Thatcher Smith

Madelon Claudet

Apple Annie

Katharine Hepburn

Morning Glory

Jane Marryot

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

It Happened One Night

6

Of Human Bondage

Marion Donnell

Sabra Cravat

Mademoiselle Amy Jolly

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Claudette Colbert

Lady for a Day

Grace Moore

Cavalcade

Anna Held

The Great Ziegfeld

Theodora Lynn

Carrie Snyder

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Diana Wynyard (3rd)

Juliet–Daughter to Capulet

Becky Sharp

Kitty Vane

Alice Adams

Jerry Bernard Martin

1929/30 (3rd)

Sarah Storm

Hallie Hobart

The Devil's Holiday

Madame Rita Cavallini

Year

Irene Bullock

My Man Godfrey

Academy Award for Best Actress

Greta Garbo

Anna Christie

Actress

Romance

Norma Shearer

Anna Christie

Character

Sarah and Son

Ruth Chatterton

Nancy Carroll

1930/31 (4th)

Irene Dunne

Marlene Dietrich

Norma Shearer

Ann Harding

Emma

The Trespasser

Gloria Swanson

1931/32 Helen Hayes (5th) Marie Dressler

Morocco

Marie Dressler

Min and Bill

Holiday

Cimarron

A Free Soul

May Robson (2nd)

Bette Davis (write-in) (3rd)

Norma Shearer (2nd)

1934 (7th)

1932/33 (6th)

The Dark Angel

Becky Sharp

Miriam Hopkins (2nd)

Alice Adams

Merle Oberon

Elisabeth Bergner

Gladys George

Irene Dunne

Theodora Goes Wild

Romeo and Juliet

The Guardsman

The Divorcee

Film

Their Own Desire

Norma Shearer

Greta Garbo

Lynn Fontanne

1935 (8th)

Bette Davis

Luise Rainer

1936 (9th)

Dangerous

One Night of Love

Escape Me Never

Private Worlds

Lucia 'Lally' Marlett

Linda Seton

Ellie Andrews

Mary Barrett

Eva Lovelace

The Actress

Dr. Jane Everest

Mildred Rogers

Elizabeth Barrett