Torill Kove is nominated for “Me and My Moulton” in the Animated Short category, in this year’s Academy Awards. And this is the third-time she’s living the experience.
ListenThe Norwegian-Canadian has already accepted the golden Oscar in 2007 for her short aminated film, “The Danish Poet”. This latest nomination is for another chapter in the stories based on her life and her native homeland of Norway. Kove was first nominated in 2000 for “My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts”.
Kove described “Me and My Moulton” as the most personal of the three and stirs deeper feelings of poignancy going into the Oscars this time.
It is the story of a seven-year-old girl who’s embarrassed by her parents and longs to be like “other normal Norwegian families of the 1960s.” Things take a turn when she and her two sisters ask their parents for a bicycle one summer.
Although this is Kove’s third time going to the Oscars, she still finds it exciting. When the nominations came in, she and a bunch of colleagues were gathered in an NFB conference room watching a live stream of the press conference.
“It’s really a nerve-wracking experience,” she said. “You just kind of sit there and my hands were getting increasingly sweaty. ‘Me and My Moulton’ was the fourth on the list that they announced and it was a fun experience, I have to say. There was just kind of a roar. We had some champagne.”
The televised ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on February 22nd.
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