And the Oscar goes to?
Categories: Movie News
Written By: MahonP
Following on from his success at this years Bafta’s, last night Tallaght man Richard Baneham flew the flag for Ireland picking up and Oscar for his animation work on Avatar. Richard learned his trade at Ballyfermot College and is getting the well deserved praise from his peers and the industry at large.
“It’s an incredibly surreal moment,” he said. “The strange thing is it’s kind of a serene feeling in this weird way to be finally handed the trophy. It does not feel real in any way, until you have come through the press and done all that and walked away and handed the piece to your wife and say: ’Here, what do you think of that?’
Hopefully Richard’s success can inspire many more budding Irish animators to push the industry onwards and help grow the already significant Irish gaming and movie industries
March 8th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Nicework Mr Baneham