Mother of Murdered Child Is Angry Over Oscar Nom for Short About Son's Killers
James Bulger’s mother, Denise Fergus, is “disgusted” that the Academy chose to nominateDetainmentfor a Short FilmOscar. The 30-minute true-crime movie is based on police interrogations of Bulger’s killers, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who were ten years-old at the time when they murdered the two-year old. The Academy chose to nominate the movie for Best Live-Action Short Film, and Fergus is not happy about the situation. Bulger was kidnapped in 1993 from a grocery store by Thompson and Venables, who threw paint in the toddler’s eyes, threw stones at him, and then beat him to death with a pipe....