The Washington Post lists the animated shorts favored to receive a little gold man.
... The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said this week that 33 qualified candidates had been culled to 10 shorts; members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch will whittle this list to three to five films prior to Jan. 25 ...
I'll be surprised if Day and Night doesn't end up the ultimate winner. But this category is often hard to predict.
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All pretty good films. Least favorite would have to be that thing called sensology. Although I can appreciate the past as much as anyone, this has been done too many times before to matter. It's repetative in all the worst ways.
Loved the Wile Coyote short, but frankly it's just no Oscar material. Loved the Pixar short Night and Day. Bill Plympton's short is funny, but not as great as his best. I enjoyed The Gruffalo a lot, too! The Silence Beneath the Bark is very beautiful, but not terribly engaging. Urs may be my favorite. Beautiful, loaded with character, and a great little story. The Lost Thing is too obtuse for it's own good. Cute, but no go. And the Madagascar film is nice--although it's nothing special.
How do you know if they're any good? How does anybody see any of these? Do you have to belong to the Shorts and Feature Animation Branch of the Academy? Are these shorts made for members of the Shorts and Feature Animation Branch exclusively? Is the only place to see them at a special screening of the shorts at a Shorts and Feature Animation Branch screening for members of the Shorts and Feature Animation Branch?
They're called "Animation Festivals."
That's where.
Annecy, Ottawa, Toronto, Portland, Los Angeles, New York, Austin, New Orleans, Hiroshima, Rio, Tokyo, London. There's lots of them.
Why oh why was "Tick Tock Tale" not considered???
There's also Ron Diamond's "Animation Show of Shows." Tours all over and has shown several of these shorts. Best of all, admission is free.
Because Tick Tock Tale just wasn't very good. (although to be fair, it was far superior to Sensology.)
"Tick Tock Tale" was a beautiful and fantastic short. Very worthy of nomination. Far better the than the majority off this list.
Anyone notice that the Exec Producer/Head of Warner Animation submitted himself in the second slot on the Coyote short? The nominations are supposed to go to the people most responsible for the creative content of the shorts. Do you see John Lasseter glomming on to Teddy Newton's "Night and Day?" What a joke.
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