When you live in Wisconsin, you take your local Oscar connections where you can find them, no matter how tangential. This year’s Oscars feature four nominees with local – more or less – ties.
They include:
West Bend native Curt Enderle is art director for the Oscar nominated stop motion animated feature film nominee “The Boxtrolls.”
Read my interview with him here.
Kenosha native Mark Ruffalo, was nominated as supporting actor for “Foxcatcher.” In another local connection; Ruffalo played Dave Schultz, a former wrestling coach at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. This is his second nomination. Read my “Foxcatcher” review here.
Marquette University alum Adam Stockhausen received a production design nomination for “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” He was nominated last year for “12 Years A Slave.” (Stockhausen is #48 in this year’s Oscar class photo from Hollywood Reporter.) Read my review of “Grand Budapest Hotel” here.
And Matteo Roberts and Zach Johnston of the Baraboo band Phox, composed the music for the Oscar nominated short animated film “The Dam Keeper.”
Read my review of “The Dam Keeper” here.
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