When Taylor Swift launched “Crimson (Taylor’s Model)” in November 2021, the second of her rerecorded albums, she additionally directed “All Too Properly: The Brief Movie.” The virtually-15-minute video stars Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien as a pair who fall in love and break up, all to the tune of “All Too Properly (10 Minute Model) (Taylor’s Model).” Along with serving because the brief’s director, Swift seems on the finish because the older and wiser model of Sink’s character, full with crimson hair. On Aug. 12, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the movie is eligible for an Oscar on the 2023 ceremony, competing in the very best live-action brief class.
At first look, the brief’s likelihood at a statue could be complicated for movie-lovers. The eligibility interval for feature-length movies — those that compete for finest image and finest documentary — is Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. However the eligibility window for shorts is Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, making Swift’s November movie eligible for a 2023 award. “All Too Properly: The Brief Movie” premiered at AMC Lincoln Sq. on Nov. 12 and ran there for per week, which is all it must qualify for Oscar consideration.
Swift has by no means been nominated for an Oscar earlier than and can possible even be eligible this yr for her music “Carolina” from “The place the Crawdads Sing.”
If nominated, Swift would not be the primary A-lister to nab an Oscar nom (or win) by way of the shorts classes. In 2018, Kobe Bryant gained an Oscar for finest animated brief movie for “Pricey Basketball.” On the 2022 ceremony, Riz Ahmed gained finest live-action brief for Aneil Karia’s movie “The Lengthy Goodbye,” which he cowrote and starred in.
Swift’s “All Too Properly: The Brief Movie” helped propel “All Too Properly (Taylor’s Model)” to the highest of the Billboard Scorching 100 and have become the singer’s eighth No. 1 music on the chart. It’s the longest music to chart at No. 1 in historical past; the earlier titleholder was Don McLean’s “American Pie,” which was eight minutes and 36 seconds lengthy.
Swift appeared on the Tribeca Movie Competition screening of the movie in June, the place she mirrored on the film in a chat with “twentieth Century Lady” director Mike Mills. “I wished to make a movie about an effervescent, curious younger girl who finally ends up fully out of her depth,” Swift mentioned, in line with Selection. She added: “You recognize once you’re strolling into the ocean? It is so enjoyable, the thought of going out to date your toes do not contact the bottom. However you will get swept away.”
Watch “All Too Properly: The Brief Movie” forward.
