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'Brought me to tears': Fans hail cartoonist Liza Donnelly for her Oscars 2023 live drawings

Liza Donnelly's drawings feature Malala Yousafzai, Lenny Kravitz, Sandra Oh, Mindy Kaling, Angela Bassett, and Ke Huy Quan among others

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Liza Donnelly, who started contributing to The New Yorker in 1979, has made her sixth visit to live-draw from the Oscars 2023. Donnelly made history in 2016 by being the first person to ever “live-draw” on the red carpet. She has now taken to her Twitter account to share her Oscars drawings. The Twitter account 'Shouts & Murmurs' has shared a series of her drawings. Hollywood's biggest night is back as the Oscars 2023 kicked off on Sunday, March 12, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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"The New Yorker cartoonist @lizadonnelly is at the #Oscars, live drawing all the action. Follow along to see what she overhears on the red carpet and behind the scenes at the ceremony," Shouts & Murmurs tweeted, along with a series of Donnelly's drawings. Donnelly subsequently retweeted these. The drawings feature Malala Yousafzai taking the red carpet, glimpses of Lenny Kravitz, Sandra Oh, and Mindy Kaling, Best Supporting Actress nominee Angela Bassett, and Ke Huy Quan accepting his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, among others. 

'Brought me to tears'

Fans hailed Donnelly's drawings, with one saying, "Still tearing up!" "Am I the only one who loved that performance? I loved it," said another. One said, "Brought me to tears."

"Today is the day! You’ll do your Aikido dance with your pencil," one user said, while another wrote, "Seeing Oscar through your artwork Is a experience like no other". "Liza, if you could ever do a #solar-related cartoon one day, that would be amazing. It's pretty invisible in Hollywood #film and #tv today, so we're doing our part with a #solar fiction podcast. Hope you can contribute some day with a cartoon or book! Have fun at the #Oscars," requested one user.

Who is Liza Donnelly?

Liza Donnelly is a writer as well as an award-winning cartoonist with The New Yorker Magazine. She has been drawing cartoons and writing about culture and politics for as many as 40 years here. "Donnelly delivered a very popular TED talk, which was translated into 40 languages and viewed over 1.4 million times. She is a return speaker at SXSW, has delivered talks at the United Nations in New York and Geneva, The New Yorker Festival, five TEDxes (most recently in Charlottesville, Virginia), universities, NGOs and corporate venues in the US and abroad. Donnelly has been a Cultural Envoy for the US State Department, traveling around the world to speak about freedom of speech, cartoons and women’s rights," Donnelly's website says. 

"In 2016, Donnelly was the first cartoonist to be granted access on location to live draw the Academy Awards and red carpet; she returns every year as the Oscar cartoonist.  Both on location and remotely, she covered presidential debates, State of The Union, The Impeachment Trial, election returns, the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the Grammys, the BET Awards, the Tonys, the Olympics, World Cup, Superbowl, literary events, and more," it adds.

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