Taylor Swift accepts the Artist of the Year award onstage throughout the 2022 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
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If this was a film, certainly.
Taylor Swift has solely simply begun an Oscar marketing campaign for her quick movie “All Too Well,” and he or she’s already struck a cope with Disney to make her characteristic directorial debut.
The singer-songwriter has written an authentic script that can be produced by Searchlight Pictures, the studio behind greatest image winners like “Slumdog Millionaire,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Birdman” and “The Shape of Water.”
Swift has directed eight of her personal music movies since 2020 earlier than writing and directing the 14-minute “All Too Well: The Short Film,” which is eligible for a nomination for the ninety fifth annual Academy Awards. The quick movie is predicated on Swift’s tune “All Too Well” and follows a manipulative boyfriend performed by Dylan O’Brien and a younger girl performed by Sadie Sink as they fall in love and finally have a devastating breakup.
Oscar nominations can be introduced Jan. 24.
The news of Swift’s characteristic movie directorial debut comes only a few months after the singer made historical past as the one solo artist to win two greatest course awards at MTV’s Video Music Awards. She can be the primary artist to win three video of the yr awards and solely the second girl to direct the profitable video for greatest longform video.
More not too long ago, Swift made headlines after Ticketmaster bungled the pre-sale ticketing of her upcoming Eras tour.
Ticketmaster, owned by Live Nation, was presupposed to open up gross sales for 1.5 million verified Taylor Swift followers final month forward of basic public ticket gross sales. However, greater than 14 million customers flocked to the location, together with bots, spurring large delays and lockouts on the location. Ultimately, 2 million tickets have been bought throughout the presale and most of the people sale was canceled, firm representatives mentioned.
The fiasco led The House Energy and Commerce Committee to pen a letter to Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino asking the chief to make clear Live Nation’s ticketing course of for the Eras tour and supply a listing of actions the corporate will take to make sure shoppers may have higher entry to reside leisure sooner or later.
Swift, who has labored to carry all advertising in home, publicly slammed the corporate for mishandling the gross sales course of, albeit with out mentioning it by title.
“I’m not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could,” she wrote in an Instagram submit final month. “It’s truly amazing that 2.4 million people got tickets, but it really pisses me off that a lot of them feel like they went through several bear attacks to get them.”