{"id":19074,"date":"2013-01-14T16:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19074"},"modified":"2013-01-14T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:50:18","slug":"beast-actress-becomes-youngest-ever-lead-actress-oscar-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19074","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beast\u2019 Actress Becomes Youngest Ever Lead Actress Oscar Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine-year-old<strong> Quvenzhan\u00e9 Wallis<\/strong> received an Oscar nomination for her leading role in <em>Beasts of the Southern Wild<\/em>, making her the youngest performer to ever be nominated in the leading actress category.<\/p>\n<p>Auditioning for the lead role when she was only 5 years old, <strong>Quvenzhan\u00e9<\/strong> was 6 when filming began in 2010.<br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Beasts of the Southern Wild<\/em> was <strong>Quvenzhan\u00e9\u2019s<\/strong> first time acting.\u00a0 In the moving role, she plays a \u201clittle girl with a wild imagination struggling to survive in the southern Delta with her ailing father as a storm approaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Beasts of the Southern Wild<\/em> won the \u2018Grand Jury Prize\u2019 at the Sundance Independent Film Festival and won the Camera d\u2019Or for best first film at the Cannes Film Festival.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallis<\/strong> will be competing for the best actress trophy alongside heavy hitters like <strong>Jennifer Lawrence<\/strong> (<em>Silver Linings Playbook<\/em>) and <strong>Jessica Chastain<\/strong> (<em>Zero Dark Thirty<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine-year-old Quvenzhan\u00e9 Wallis received an Oscar nomination for her leading role in Beasts of the Southern Wild, making her the youngest performer to ever be nominated in the leading actress category. Auditioning for the lead role when she was only 5 years old, Quvenzhan\u00e9 was 6 when filming began in 2010. Beasts of the Southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}