The Young Artist Award nominations have just been announced and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian has been nominated for three of them.
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actor
Nate Hartley – “Drillbit Taylor”
Freddie Highmore – “The Spiderwick Chronicles”
Josh Hutcherson – “Journey to the Center of the Earth”
Skandar Keynes – “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actress
Abigail Breslin – “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl”
Madeline Carroll – “Swing Vote”
Dakota Fanning – “The Secret Life of Bees”
Georgie Henley – “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”
Keke Palmer – “The Longshots”
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Young Ensemble Cast
“The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” – Walt Disney Pictures
Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell
“Drillbit Taylor” – Paramount Pictures
David Dorfman, Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley
“Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” – New Line Cinema
Abigail Breslin, Madison Davenport, Austin MacDonald, Zach Mills, Willow Smith, Max Thieriot
Skandar Keynes gets my vote. He has nailed the part of Edmund superbly, in the films as in the books he is the most complicated and interesting of the Pevensies.
I think CS Lewis intended that he is the most intelligent of the group. After all, as King Edmund he becomes a legal expert whereas Peter is more interested in fighting. In the Prince Caspian film, Edmund is loyal but faintly disapproving of his older brother’s bad decision making.
e.g. “I know. you had it sorted”
It’s a subtle trick to get it right and Skandar Keynes achieves it, whereas several of the scenes with Will Moseley fall rather flat by comparison.