This year’s Oscar hopefuls include names you might not expect among the nominees: Respawn Entertainment and Oculus Studios.
No, video game publisher “Titanfall” and “Apex Legends” and Facebook’s virtual reality studio are not nominated for best visual effects. “Colette”, a short film co-produced by the companies with British outlet The Guardian, is nominated for Best Documentary Short at the Oscars, distributed on Sunday.
The 25-minute film tells the story of 92-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine, who served in the French resistance during World War II. With Lucie Fouble, a French history student, she visits the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in Germany where her brother Jean-Pierre died in 1945, three weeks before Allied troops liberated prisoners there.
“The idea of a game company partnering with a news agency to put this out – is a first,” the film’s writer and director Anthony Giacchino told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s never happened before [and] it’s pretty amazing to me.”
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“Colette” is one of many in-game ($59.99) short films and interviews with real WWII veterans, available on the Oculus and Steam game stores. But you can watch “Colette” for free on Oculus TV. and on The Guardian website.
Prior to the game’s December 2020 release, “Colette” won Best Short Film at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which qualified it for Oscar consideration.
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The “Medal of Honor” franchise, launched by Electronic Arts in 1999, has strong ties to film. The PlayStation game was inspired by Steven Spielberg’s film “Saving Private Ryan” and Spielberg helped create the story.
Spielberg “had the foresight 20 years ago to know that video games would be the dominant form of entertainment and that would be how the majority of young people would learn,” Peter Hirschmann, who helmed the recent VR game for Respawn and produced the original, told The Hollywood Reporter.
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