“ Congratulations to the film Tanna for such a great effort and achievement on behalf of all of us in the Great Moana Nui. You might have missed out (like Disney's film Moana), which I would like to think to be that close, on winning an Academy Award but your being merely nominated for the Oscar speaks loudly for itself in terms of both the recognition and appreciation of the collective efforts of all the parties involved in the artistic productive process.
In saying that, one still wonders as to how the panel of judges, as were the film critics, encountered the levels of mediation of such multiple artforms as film-scripting/film-writing, film-making, film-acting and story-telling, where they are unified into one whole, on the one hand, and the respective intersecting or connecting and separating human meanings (in both film-scripting/film-writing and story-telling), images by means of light and colours and bodily gestures within and across these genres, on the other.
We may not know the whole truth but we can however find consolation by curiously albeit critically observing the films on their terms, where symmetry, harmony and beauty can be independently established (what art/film is) as opposed to seeing them in terms of human preference or human use, that is, in terms of whether we like it or not (what art/film does). One can only best guess and perhaps only God knows! ”