Watch Taylor Swift’s All Too Well: The Short Film

When Taylor Swift launched “Red (Taylor’s Version)” in November 2021, the second of her rerecorded albums, she additionally directed “All Too Well: The Short Film.” The almost-15-minute video stars Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien as a pair who fall in love and break up, all to the tune of “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version).” In addition to serving because the brief’s director, Swift seems on the finish because the older and wiser model of Sink’s character, full with purple hair. On Aug. 12, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the movie is eligible for an Oscar on the 2023 ceremony, competing in the most effective live-action brief class.

At first look, the brief’s probability at a statue is perhaps complicated for movie-lovers. The eligibility interval for feature-length movies — those that compete for finest image and finest documentary — is Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. But the eligibility window for shorts is Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, making Swift’s November movie eligible for a 2023 award. “All Too Well: The Short Film” premiered at AMC Lincoln Square on Nov. 12 and ran there for every week, which is all it must qualify for Oscar consideration.

Swift has by no means been nominated for an Oscar earlier than and can probably even be eligible this 12 months for her song “Carolina” from “Where the Crawdads Sing.”

If nominated, Swift would not be the primary A-lister to nab an Oscar nom (or win) by way of the shorts classes. In 2018, Kobe Bryant gained an Oscar for finest animated brief movie for “Dear Basketball.” At the 2022 ceremony, Riz Ahmed gained finest live-action brief for Aneil Karia’s movie “The Long Goodbye,” which he cowrote and starred in.

Swift’s “All Too Well: The Short Film” helped propel “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” to the highest of the Billboard Hot 100 and have become the singer’s eighth No. 1 tune on the chart. It is the longest tune to chart at No. 1 in historical past; the earlier titleholder was Don McLean’s “American Pie,” which was eight minutes and 36 seconds lengthy.

Swift appeared on the Tribeca Film Festival screening of the movie in June, the place she mirrored on the film in a chat with “twentieth Century Woman” director Mike Mills. “I needed to make a movie about an effervescent, curious younger lady who finally ends up fully out of her depth,” Swift mentioned, based on Variety. She added: “You know whenever you’re strolling into the ocean? It’s so enjoyable, the thought of going out thus far your toes do not contact the bottom. But you will get swept away.”

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