“I never thought it would be something I would adapt,” Ribon says in a phone interview. The title had actor Riz Ahmed chuckling when he announced the nominations and, as the Associated Press noted, "There is, to be sure, no Oscar nominee this year quite like “My Year of Dicks” - and not just because of a title that, as Ribon notes, 'is tough on a spam filter'.” The 25-minute film from Icelandic director Sara Gunnarsdóttir was produced and adapted by author Pamela Ribon from a chapter in her 2013 memoir about coming of age in H-town, "Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Say in Public." There's a Houston-related film up for an Oscar this year - but you may not have heard of it until its title sparked titters when nominations were announced last month.Ĭompeting for the Oscar in the animated short film category is the controversially named "My Year of Dicks," an odyssey through 1991 Houston as seen through the eyes of a 15-year-old teenager angst-ridden over her latest crush.
Scene from the Oscar-nominated, Houston-set animated short, 'My Year of Dicks' Photo: Sara Gunnarsdottir
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