Director Alice Rohrwacher and make-up
artist Aldo Signoretti got Oscar nods Tuesday.
Rohrwacher's 'Le Pupille', a WWII drama of teen rebellion in a
Catholic boarding school, is among the five nominees for the
live action short category, with the awards 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."
Veteran Italian make-up artist Signoretti has 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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