{"id":2850,"date":"2015-08-06T13:27:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:54:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T18:54:52","slug":"alums-at-the-oscars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/2015\/08\/06\/alums-at-the-oscars-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alums at the Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>By Joel Brown | Photo by John Shearer\/Invision\/AP<\/h4>\n<p><small><em><span face=\"georgia\" color=\"#666\" style=\"color: #666666; font-family: georgia;\">Banner image: Disney Producer Roy Conli (\u201987) (center) won an Oscar for <\/span><\/em><span face=\"georgia\" color=\"#666\" style=\"color: #666666; font-family: georgia;\">Big Hero 6<\/span><em><span face=\"georgia\" color=\"#666\" style=\"color: #666666; font-family: georgia;\">, the animated hit about a boy and his robot friend.<\/span><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"media picture w_150\">\n<p><img src=\"\/cfa-magazine\/files\/2015\/08\/AP_997236753951.jpg\" alt=\"Julianne Moore\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">\u0007Julianne Moore (\u201983) won an Academy Award for <em>Still Alice<\/em>. <span class=\"credit\">Photo by\u00a0<span>Press Association via AP Images<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Two alums accepted the iconic gold statues at the 87th Academy Awards this year:<\/strong> Julianne Moore (\u201983) won the Oscar for Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of a Columbia University linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s disease in the film <em>Still Alice<\/em>. This was Moore\u2019s fifth Academy Award nomination\u2014and first win.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Conli (\u201987) was the producer of <em>Big Hero 6<\/em>, the winner in the best animated feature category. The film, about a teenage prodigy and his puffy robotic pal, has earned more than $600 million at the box office worldwide. This is the second year in a row that a BU alum has won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature; Peter Del Vecho (\u201980) picked up last year\u2019s Oscar for <em>Frozen<\/em>, another Walt Disney Animation Studios film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joel Brown | Photo by John Shearer\/Invision\/AP Banner image: Disney Producer Roy Conli (\u201987) (center) won an Oscar for Big Hero 6, the animated hit about a boy and his robot friend. \u0007Julianne Moore (\u201983) won an Academy Award for Still Alice. Photo by\u00a0Press Association via AP Images Two alums accepted the iconic gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}