Nominated for best song Oscar, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s top priority is finding his mum an outfit for the red carpet
Having the chance to win an Academy Award, for How Far I’ll Go from Disney’s Moana, is a ‘dream come true’ for American actor, playwright, composer, and writer, who could add statuette to his Grammys, Tonys and Emmy
When Lin-Manuel Miranda was a 10-year-old kid with wild daydreams of Academy Awards success, he used to boast to his mother that he was going to bring her as his Oscar date.
So Tuesday was a big day for mum Luz Towns-Miranda, as her son was nominated for his first Oscar as composer of the best original song How Far I’ll Go from Disney’s Moana.
Good as his word, Miranda is already focusing on making sure his mother looks great on the red carpet.
“We gotta get my mum a dress. I’ve promised her she was coming with me to the Oscars since I was 10,” Miranda says. “Obviously the first priority is getting my mum looking nice. I can wear any old penguin suit.”
The Hamilton creator found out about the big Oscar news while wearing a “period 1930s costume” on the top-secret set of the live-action Mary Poppins he’s filming in London – “that’s about all I can say about the set without the non-disclosure police coming after me”, Miranda says.
But he adds that he was chilling out after a tough morning of rehearsals in his dressing room, watching the Roger Federer Australian Open tennis match he had recorded.