Denis Villeneuve, Ryan Gosling, Canadian animated shorts get Oscar nominations
Canadian Oscar nominees Denis Villeneuve and Ryan Gosling pulled away from their jam-packed schedules Tuesday morning to marvel over their Academy Award kudos.
They chatted by phone soon after Villeneuve learned he’d snagged his first directing nomination for the aliens-have-landed thriller “Arrival,” and Gosling picked up a best acting nod, one of a leading 14 nominations for “La La Land.”
“We are both proud of each other and happy for each other. It’s quite a nice ride for both of us and I’m very, very happy for what he did,” Villeneuve said from Los Angeles.
“Ryan is a kind of comical genius. He has that sense. He’s a very, very strong actor and I’m very proud of what he did in ‘La La Land.’”