Italian director Alice Rohrwacher on
Tuesday dedicated her Oscar nomination for her short Le Pupille
(The Pupils) to the kind of naughty girls it portrays in
charting teenage rebellion in a WWII boarding school.
"I dedicate the Oscar nomination to the 'naughty girls' who are
not naughty at all and who are fighting everywhere in the world.
I wish that, like in my short film Le Pupille, they can break
the cake and share it with each other," said Rohrwacher
commenting on the nomination for the award which will be handed
out on March 12.
"The girls and women in Iran, in Afghanistan but everywhere also
in Sweden and Umbria," she added.
The minifilm in the Best Live Action Short nomination is a
Tempest and Esperanto Filmoj production for Disney, available
exclusively on Disney+.
Rohrwacher got her nomination alongside make-up artist Aldo
Signoretti, for Elvis.
'Le Pupille', a WWII drama of teen rebellion in a Catholic
boarding school, is among the five nominees for the live action
short category, to be handed out on March 12.
It is the latest work by the 41-year-old Fiesole born director
and screenwriter, who won the Grand Prix at the 2014 Cannes Film
Festival for The Wonder and best screenplay at Cannes in 2018
for Lazzaro Felice.
Le Pupille (The Pupils) follows a group of rebellious young
girls at a Catholic boarding school in Italy during a time of
scarcity and war.
Rohrwacher has said the film is "about desires, pure and
selfish, about freedom and devotion, about the anarchy that is
capable of flowering in the minds of each one of them within the
confines of the strict boarding school".
She added that "although the obedient girls can't move, their
pupils can dance the unrestrained dance of freedom."
Separately, veteran Italian make-up artist Signoretti got an
Oscar nod for his work on Baz Luhrmann's biopic Elvis, the
Academy said Tuesday.
Rome-born Signoretti, 69, who has three previous nominations to
his name for Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001), Mel Gibson's
Apocalypto (2006) and Paolo Sorrentino's Il divo (2010), was
nominated for his part in the makeup and hairstyling team on the
biopic about the King of Rock&Roll.
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