James Bulger's mother says she is "disgusted and upset" by the appointment to "Detainment". Oscars

The short film about the badbadins of Bulger was distinguished in the category "Best short live action"

Denise Fergus, the mother of the murdered young child James Bulger, said she was "disgusted and upset" after a movie about her son's killers was nominated for an Oscar.

Detention, which was directed by Vincent Lambe, recreates the moments before and after Bulger's departure from a Bootle mall in Merseyside, by Robert Thompson and 10-year-old Jon Venables in 1993.

The 30-minute film also describes the police interviews that took place after the couple's arrest and describes itself as "a true story based on transcripts and recordings of interviews."

Detention was nominated yesterday for an Oscar for Best Short Action, and Fergus responded to the news with a statement on his Twitter account (which you can read in detail below).

"I can not express how disgusted and upset I am with this so-called film that has been shot and is now nominated for an Oscar," she wrote. "It's one thing to make a film like this without contacting or getting permission from James's family, but another to revive the last hours of James' life before his brutal murder and to force my family and me to relive all over again!

As Fergus mentions in his statement, more than 90,000 people signed a petition before announcing yesterday's nominations, with the goal of asking the Academy not to name the film. Fergus now says that, like the petition, his feelings were "ignored" by the Academy.

"I am so angry and upset by the present time," she added, before then expressing her hope that Detention do not win an Oscar next month.

Lambe has already apologized to Fergus and his family "for any annoyance that the film would have caused them", and expresses regret at not having consulted Fergus before shooting the film.

"The film was not made for financial gain and no one is involved in making the film," he added in a separate statement released last month.