Baby Yoda won the hearts and minds of “Star Wars” fans this year. But can it also win awards season?
The short answer, of course, is no. Baby Yoda — technically called “The Child” on the new Disney Plus series “The Mandalorian” — is not real, and not eligible for its own Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild or Emmy Award. Spokespersons for both the Globes and SAG Awards confirm that there’s no room for CGI/animated characters.
But why not? Baby Yoda is not the first puppet, animated star or computer-generated character to make a splash in pop culture — and it could be argued that there should be a way to select and award such pivotal parts of popular entertainment.
Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy would be into it. The characters blasted the Academy Awards during a 2012 junket for their film “The Muppets” as being “species-ist.” “For some reason the...
The short answer, of course, is no. Baby Yoda — technically called “The Child” on the new Disney Plus series “The Mandalorian” — is not real, and not eligible for its own Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild or Emmy Award. Spokespersons for both the Globes and SAG Awards confirm that there’s no room for CGI/animated characters.
But why not? Baby Yoda is not the first puppet, animated star or computer-generated character to make a splash in pop culture — and it could be argued that there should be a way to select and award such pivotal parts of popular entertainment.
Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy would be into it. The characters blasted the Academy Awards during a 2012 junket for their film “The Muppets” as being “species-ist.” “For some reason the...
- 12/7/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
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