Oscar season is heating up in New York, with the announcement that three potential frontrunners will receive top honors at the 2022 Museum of the Moving Image Gala to be held at the Sumner M. Redstone Theater in Astoria, Queens, on the main floor of MoMI.
“It is a great honor to recognize Sarah Polley, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro and Laura Poitras as the recipients of the 2022 Moving Image Award,” said Carl Goodman, MoMI Executive Director. “These exceptional artists, whose work ranges from narrative direction to screenwriting to nonfiction filmmaking, highlight the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of the moving image. We look forward to welcoming them, along with our fans, to the Museum on December 1 to celebrate their remarkable achievements.”
Polley’s last narrative film women talking has had Oscar pundits talking since its festival premiere in Telluride and Toronto, with rumors surrounding actors Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw and Polley herself as writer-director, adapting Miriam Toews’ novel 2018 about a group of women coming together to talk about abuse. in a small religious colony.
Laura Poitras is a former Oscar winner, for her 2014 documentary on whistleblower Edward Snowden, and is heavily favored to enter the documentary race again for this year. All the beauty and the bloodshedfocused on photographer Nan Goldin’s attempt to hold Purdue Pharma accountable for the massive increase in opioid deaths (similarly explored in the Hulu series fool last year).
Despite plaudits and awards galore for his novels and stories, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro has written only a handful of screenplays, the last for the film starring Bill Nighy. To live it could be your ticket to the big night in Hollywood. Its adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film ikiru follows an aging bureaucrat (Nighy) dealing with the possibility of terminal illness and Ishiguro’s script (along with Nighy’s impressive performance) has also had Oscar buzz this year.
