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Ryan Gosling, Robbie Robertson among Canadian Oscar nominees

Ryan Gosling, Robbie Robertson and Toronto-based filmmaker Nisha Pahuja are among the Canadians up for Oscars at the 96th Academy Awards.

Announced Tuesday morning, Gosling earned a nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Barbie, which has eight nominations heading into the awards, including Best Picture.

Robertson, who passed away in August, is posthumously nominated for Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures for the original score for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which picked up 10 nods.

Pahuja’s To Kill a Tiger, a Notice Pictures/National Film Board co-production, is up for Best Documentary Feature Film. The film tells the story of a farmer in Jharkhand, India, demanding justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the survivor of a sexual assault in a country where a rape is reported every 20 minutes but conviction rates are less than 30%.

Since its world premiere at TIFF, where it won the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, the doc has won over 20 awards, including Best Documentary Feature at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and three Canadian Screen Awards.

“I am beyond thrilled that To Kill a Tiger has been nominated for an Academy Award,” said Pahuja, in an NFB release. “This is an extraordinary honour for the creative team behind this eight-year journey, and it’s a testament to the tireless group of women working outside the normal ecosystem to ensure this story is seen and does what it needs to in the world…It is our hope and intent that this film will encourage other survivors to seek justice, and that men stand with us in our fight for gender equality.”

South Korean-Canadian playwright Celine Song’s directorial debut Past Lives is nominated for both Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, the story of two childhood friends reunited decades later.

Nova Scotia filmmaker Ben Proudfoot earned a nomination for The Last Repair Shop in the Best Documentary Short category, after an earlier win for The Queen of Basketball in 2021, while Quebec filmmaker Vincent René-Lortie’s Invincible was nominated for Best Live Action Short, alongside Montreal producer Samuel Caron.

Find the full list of nominees here.

Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 96th Oscars air live Sunday, March 10 at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT on CTV, CTV.ca and the CTV app.


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