Trivia / Whale Rider

• Award Category Fraud: Attempted. Keisha Castle-Hughes was campaigned in the supporting actress category for most of the awards season, which is where she was placed in the SAG Awards. Academy voters, however, disagreed and nominated her as a lead for the Oscars.
• Star-Making Role: Was this for Keisha Castle-Hughes. She actually became the youngest actress ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress at the age of thirteen (until Quvenzhané Wallis was nominated at age of nine, for Beasts of the Southern Wild).

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