Taylor Swift’s Short Film eligible to be nominated for 2023 Oscars

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 Editor

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Taylor Swift is already working with a “leading consulting firm to guide [the project’s] awards campaign.”

Taylor Swift could be eyeing an Oscar in the future.

Swift’s recent project All Too Well: The Short Film has reportedly qualified to be eligible for an Academy Award nomination in the Best Live Action Short category at next year’s Oscars ceremony, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The singer-songwriter, 32, is said to already be working with a “top consulting firm to guide [the project’s] awards campaign,” the outlet adds.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Taylor Swift is already working with a “leading consulting firm to guide [the project’s] awards campaign.”

On November 12, All Too Well: The Short Film was released online and at the AMC Lincoln Square in New York City. Unfortunately for Swift, the picture is ineligible for the Academy Awards’ Best Picture category because it was released no earlier than the calendar year preceding the Oscar event.

However, the eligibility period for best live-action short has been shifted from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021, making Swift’s directorial debut a possibility.

Swift composed and directed the 13-minute video, which is set to and inspired by a new 10-minute version of her favourite deep cut “All Too Well,” which is featured on her recently re-released album, Red (Taylor’s Version). Swift first released the song on her album Red in 2012.

Swift held a private fan screening in New York City in November, hours before the short film was released on YouTube, where she — along with Stranger Things actress Sadie Sink and Teen Wolf alum Dylan O’Brien — encouraged viewers (who were given preemptive tissues) to “feel your feelings” during the screening.

“A record label didn’t pick this song as a single. We never made a video for it. This was a song that started out as a song on the album, just a simple track 5. And you went and turned it into what it is now. It started out as a song that was my favorite,” she continued. “It was about something very personal to me. It was hard to perform it live. Now, for me, honestly, this song is 100 percent about us, and for you.”

Swift also talked about re-recording her albums during the fan-centered event.

“Getting to re-release these albums is something I wouldn’t be doing if you hadn’t empowered me and emboldened me to do so,” Swift said. “You guys are so amazing about a very hard thing I went through. You guys turned a hard thing into a very, very wonderful experience. Now we’re going through the second time with the Red re-release: my version. And so all of this is happening because you made this happen.”

According to legend, “All Too Well” was inspired by Swift’s terrible breakup over a decade ago, and it has since become a fan favourite and one of the Grammy winner’s most renowned songs, thanks to its vivid, cinematic storytelling. All Too Well: The Short Film, in which Sink plays a young Swift and O’Brien plays her ex-lover, whom Swifties have long thought to be Jake Gyllenhaal, is the culmination of that storyline. (Observant fans noted that Sink is 19 and O’Brien is 30; Swift was 20 and Gyllenhaal was 29 when they dated, and the age gap is a topic in the song “All Too Well.”)

The film replicates musical memories while adding language to offer context to the already unique lyrics. Of course, there is a trip upstate during which the pair kisses in the woods and listens to music beside a lake. There’s the controversial scarf he wore on one of their first dates. There’s also kitchen dancing and card games by the fire.

However, we may also see the relationship’s low points. During one of the new dialogue scenes, the leading lady and her ex get into a furious dispute after he drops her hand at a meal with her friends, seemingly ashamed. When she becomes agitated, he gaslights her, calling the issue silly and her reaction absurd and self-centered. Later on, we see as she celebrates her 21st birthday surrounded by friends and no family — but no boyfriend.

The story ends 13 years later, as the heroine (now grown and successful, played by a redheaded Swift) promotes a new book at a reading, where her ex watches on through a window, still wearing her old scarf.

After the N.Y.C. screening, the stars opened up about working with Swift.

You can watch the Short film, below-