A local production supervisor was caught off guard when a friend from the East Coast called him to wish him congratulations early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m like, uh, what?\u201d Marc Dahlstrom recalled saying, unaware that the Eastern Washington-based film he worked on had just been nominated for four Academy Awards, including best picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrain Dreams\u201d is an intimate portrayal of a man, Robert Grainer (Joel Edgerton), as he navigates loss and adapts to the rapidly evolving Pacific Northwest during the early 1900s.<\/p>\n
Director Clint Bentley crafted a film adapted from Denis Johnson\u2019s novella that captured audiences and Academy voters alike, landing nominations in best original song, cinematography, adapted screenplay and best picture.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrain Dreams\u201d was considered an underdog to make the best picture list after Netflix\u2019s campaign for Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein gained momentum at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. But both films were able to secure spots in the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cHollywood \u2013 I mean, it\u2019s a big world out there, and there\u2019s lots of things that go into that whole machine of the motion picture arts,\u201d Dahlstrom said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to know for sure how everything works, but again, it\u2019s just great to be recognized and great for those that were part of the nominating that movie, and then those that worked on it can be very, very proud of their efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Filmed largely in Eastern Washington, the movie features many familiar backdrops for Spokane locals, such as the Davenport Hotel, The Spokesman-Review building and the Pacific Northwest\u2019s lush forests.<\/p>\n
A local crew ensured the details were right. More than a third of the hands behind the project were Spokane-based, and now Dahlstrom said their work will bring their hometown to the center stage on Hollywood\u2019s biggest night.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to put a spotlight on Washington,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd particularly Eastern Washington and Spokane and what we\u2019re able to accomplish here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since news of the film\u2019s nominations has spread across the West Side, Dahlstrom\u2019s phone has been bright with notifications from his friends and fellow crew members.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m jazzed,\u201d propmaster Andy Wert said.<\/p>\n
Though he was out of the country Thursday, it is on Wert\u2019s weekend agenda to send out calls to the people in his life. The local propmaster has worked on multiple movies previously nominated for Academy Awards, including Jean-Marc Vall\u00e9e\u2019s \u201cDallas Buyers Club\u201d and Patty Jenkins\u2019 \u201cMonster.\u201d<\/p>\n
For his part, Wert saw the nominations coming \u201cfrom a mile away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust the whole feel of the project while we were working on it, I just knew that it was something special,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd here we are going to the awards. It\u2019s just amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the Academy Awards show happens in March, Dahlstrom is hoping to get the chance to dress in his Sunday best and attend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how it all works,\u201d he said of attending the awards. \u201cIn fact, I was just cleaning up my office a little bit and I\u2019m going to fire up the computer and (search), \u2018How do you get Academy Award tickets?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
The Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, March 15, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Viewers around the world can tune in live from home through the ABC Network or Hulu. It starts at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
Until then, \u201cTrain Dreams\u201d can be streamed on Netflix. Wert has no shortage of faith in the film.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe crew and the people on the ground there in Spokane \u2013 it\u2019s such a great community, and if there was a place where something magical is gonna happen, it\u2019s gonna happen in Spokane.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local production supervisor was caught off guard when a friend from the East Coast called him to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-424694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}