What is an Oscar or Academy Award really? It’s the highest possible award in the movie world. For most people it’s a crown on their work, once you’ve won and Oscar you’re pretty much at the peak of your career. What if you win the Oscar at a young age or even get nominated at a very young age?

We’ve seen quite a few young actresses be nominated in recent years, if we just look at the last two years we have Abigail Breslin for her supporting role in Little Miss Sunshine, Saoirse Ronan for her supporting role in Atonement and Ellen Page for her starring role in Juno. We will however not really look at them seeing they didn’t actually win and because they were nominated not that long ago. So what it will do to their career in the long run isn’t really known yet.

So lets take a look at a young actress who won an Oscar not that long ago. Anna Paquin won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her part in The Piano in 1994, she was only eleven years old making her the second youngest winner ever behind Tatum O’Neal. So what happened for Anna Paquin after the Piano?
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Saoirse Ronan will star in the family adventure movie The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. The movie is based on the novel by the same name by Edward Irving Wortis, it’s about a young girl (which will be played by Saoirse of course) that has an adventure aboard a ship with a mean captain and a mutinous crew. The script was written by Danny DeVito and will also be directed by him but he won’t appear on screen. The two producers however will be in the movie; Pierce Brosnan and Morgan Freeman.

There’s no way around it; that is one impressive line up. Saoirse herself already had an Oscar nomination but working with Danny, Pierce and Morgan will just teach her a lot. The genre is right up Danny DeVito’s alley I would say, he’s the one responsible for turning Matilda into a movie with great success. So this can only be good for her.