WATCH: In Iceland, this village is basking in the glow of an Oscar-nominated song
By The Washington Post
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HUSAVIK, Iceland - This is a little folk tale with otherworldly elements, like elves. And gleaming golden statuettes.
It is also about some nice things that happened to a tiny town in Iceland, which improbably found itself the setting for a major Hollywood film - and now the namesake for an Academy Award nomination for best original song.
The 2020 Netflix comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga isn t high art, for sure. A review of the reviews by critics on the website Rotten Tomatoes gave it 63 percent fresh rating. Robbie Collin in the Telegraph newspaper pronounced it, Not a film so much as two hours of lump-free, vaguely film-like audiovisual paste. It s not Nomadland.
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Frances McDormand has won the Oscar for best actress, and “Nomadland” triumphed in three of the top categories, including best picture and best director.
It’s the second Oscar for McDormand, who also won best actress in 2018 for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” That Oscar was stolen at the post-show Governors Ball, though it was recovered before the night was over.
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