Could 9-year-old win youngest best actress Oscar?
By Michael Thurston
She landed the part by lying about her age: Quvenzhane Wallis was five, and the filmmakers were only auditioning girls at least six years old.
She landed the part by lying about her age: Quvenzhane Wallis was five, and the filmmakers were only auditioning girls at least six years old.
He is the director behind the performance of Quvenzhane Wallis that made Academy history—she is the youngest lead actress nominee. He is the Benh that was called, not Ben Affleck, as among this year’s Oscar Best Director nominees, joining the circle of Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Michael Haneke and David O. Russell.
Three child actors, one as young as 2 years old, stole their respective films shown in the Sundance Film Festival that ends Sunday. Quvenzhane Wallis, who was only 6 years old when she shot “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” got a standing ovation from an audience of over 1,000 during the film’s world premiere in the festival.
