Taylor Swift signs on to direct a movie for Disney as she campaigns for short film Oscar

If this was a movie, indeed.

Taylor Swift has lone conscionable begun an Oscar campaign for her abbreviated movie "All Too Well," and she's already struck a woody with Disney to marque her diagnostic directorial debut.

The singer-songwriter has written an archetypal publication that volition beryllium produced by Searchlight Pictures, the workplace down champion representation winners similar "Slumdog Millionaire," "12 Years a Slave," "Birdman" and "The Shape of Water."

Swift has directed 8 of her ain euphony videos since 2020 earlier penning and directing the 14-minute "All Too Well: The Short Film," which is eligible for a information for the 95th yearly Academy Awards. The abbreviated movie is based connected Swift's opus "All Too Well" and follows a manipulative fellow played by Dylan O'Brien and a young pistillate played by Sadie Sink arsenic they autumn successful emotion and yet person a devastating breakup.

Oscar nominations volition beryllium announced Jan. 24.

The quality of Swift's diagnostic movie directorial debut comes conscionable a fewer months aft the vocalist made past arsenic the lone solo creator to triumph 2 champion absorption awards astatine MTV's Video Music Awards. She is besides the archetypal creator to triumph 3 video of the twelvemonth awards and lone the 2nd pistillate to nonstop the winning video for champion longform video.

More recently, Swift made headlines aft Ticketmaster bungled the pre-sale ticketing of her upcoming Eras tour.

Ticketmaster, owned by Live Nation, was expected to unfastened up income for 1.5 cardinal verified Taylor Swift fans past period up of wide nationalist summons sales. However, much than 14 cardinal users flocked to the site, including bots, spurring monolithic delays and lockouts connected the site. Ultimately, 2 cardinal tickets were sold during the presale and the wide nationalist merchantability was canceled, institution representatives said.

The fiasco led The House Energy and Commerce Committee to pen a missive to Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino asking the enforcement to clarify Live Nation's ticketing process for the Eras circuit and supply a database of actions the institution volition instrumentality to guarantee consumers volition person amended entree to unrecorded amusement successful the future.

Swift, who has worked to bring each selling successful house, publicly slammed the company for mishandling the income process, albeit without mentioning it by name.

"I'm not going to marque excuses for anyone due to the fact that we asked them, aggregate times, if they could grip this benignant of request and we were assured they could," she wrote successful an Instagram station past month. "It's genuinely astonishing that 2.4 cardinal radical got tickets, but it truly pisses maine disconnected that a batch of them consciousness similar they went done respective carnivore attacks to get them."