Ninety-Nine-Year-Old Academy Voter Less Than Impressed by The Artist
Moviegoers scratching their heads over this year’s front runner for the Best Picture Oscar have a new heroine. Her name is Connie Sawyer, born when silent movies were all the rage.
She was the focus of a fun sidebar to the fantastic LA Times weekend look at the make-up of AMPAS voter ranks. Reporter Emily Rome caught up with Sawyer at the Motion Picture and Television Country House in Woodland Hills and got this super-senior AMPAS member’s thoughts on The Artist:
The movie was enjoyable enough, she says, but she frankly doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about.
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