Joanna Quinn and Les Mills’ Affairs of the Art (Beryl Productions International/National Film Board of Canada) has been nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the Academy Awards.
“We are absolutely thrilled and delighted to hear that our film has got a nomination—it’s the fulfillment of a dream that we’ve had since we first started making films. We are especially grateful to our Canadian co-producers at the NFB for their unstinting support, professionalism, and expertise throughout the whole production process—a million thanks to them and, of course, to all of our fantastic production crew in Wales.” – Joanna Quinn and Les Mills
Watch the official trailer for Affairs of the Art as directed by Joanna Quinn and Les Mills
This is the second trip to the Oscars for Quinn, whose animated short Famous Fred (1996) was nominated at the 70th Academy Awards. Mills was the producer of Wife of Bath – The Canterbury Tales, nominated the following year, but it’s his first time as an official Oscar nominee. It’s also the second Oscar-nominated film produced by Michael Fukushima, who retired from the NFB in March 2021 after 23 years at the NFB’s English Program Animation Studio.
Since making her first award-winning film, Girls Night Out (1987), which introduced audiences to working-class heroine Beryl, Joanna Quinn has become one of Britain’s most distinctive animators. Quinn and her writing and producing partner, Les Mills, created three more films about Beryl: Body Beautiful (1990), Dreams and Desires: Family Ties (2006), and now Affairs of the Art, which was produced by Mills (Beryl Productions International) and Michael Fukushima (NFB).
The NFB is bringing all Canadians into the Oscar celebration with free streaming of Affairs of the Art from February 8 to March 27 on NFB.ca. The film can also be streamed for free in Canada and the US in The New Yorker screening room.
This is the 76th nomination for the NFB, which has received more Academy Award nominations than any other film organization based outside of Hollywood. NFB productions and co-productions have won the big prize on 12 occasions.
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