© 2016 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved(LOS ANGELES) — Sausage Party, the unapologetically raunchy animated movie from Seth Rogen and his producing partner Evan Goldberg, could someday be the first film featuring a food orgy to win an Oscar.
The Hollywood Reporter notes that Rogen and Goldberg, along with Sony Pictures, have started a full-court press to court the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to consider the film for nomination.
The R-rated movie, which grossed $135 million bucks domestically on a $19 budget, will be screened on November 1 for members of the Academy’s short films and feature animation branch, according to the trade, as well as journalists and critics, and members of the Golden Globes-packing Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Rogen noted to the trade, “We’ve never been this passionate about a film and we’re thrilled to enter uncharted territory. It’s rare you really get to break new ground, and we hope that people view it as a good thing for the medium.”
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