Richard Collins: No animals eligible for Oscars even if they are the real stars
Free Willy: Keiko as Willy with Jason James Richter as Jesse. Image: Cinetext Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar
, Patrick Carey’s evocation of Irish Nature, was nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 43rd Academy Awards ceremony in 1971 [link to film below]. However, despite their enormous contribution to cinema, animals wild or tame are not eligible for Oscars.
Keiko, the orca, might have been honoured for his 1993 performance in . The little mongooses in the BBC’s TV offering should have taken a statuette home in 1994. Fungie, with his friendly antics in Dingle Bay, surely deserved a ‘life-time achievement’ award.
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