Oscars Best Live Action Short Film Winners & Nominees
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- DirectorLarry LansburghStarsRex AllenMarvin GlennWarner GlennPaco, a hound of exceptional heritage, is easily distracted by other animals while on the hunt.
- DirectorClaude JutraNorman McLarenStarsClaude JutraAn ordinary-looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
- DirectorWolf KoenigColin LowStarsPierre BertonAuthor Pierre Berton tells the history of his hometown of Dawson City at its heyday during the Klondike Gold Rush.
- DirectorDerek WilliamsStarsDerek WilliamsAn absorbing record of the advance preparations for the historic first crossing of the Antarctic Continent by Dr. Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary.
- This program looks at the people, history, culture and geography of: Portugal.
- DirectorJames AlgarScenes from the Grand Canyon set to Ferde Grofé's "Grand Canyon Suite."
- DirectorRalph KeeneStarsStephen MurrayThe cycle of the seasons in the land around Selborne in Hampshire, home town of Gilbert White, country parson and naturalist.
- DirectorBrian BrakeThis Oscar-nominated New Zealand short looks at a number of mountains in New Zealand with a fair amount of emphasis on skiing. While a number of mountains are shown, most of the movie covers Mt. Cook (known as Aorangi to the Maori)
- DirectorLouis Clyde StoumenStarsAnne LockhartDocumentary short subject featuring some tumbleweed that moves through a small town in the desert and interacts with people and animals.
- DirectorEverett ChambersStarsDavid BrennerJulie ReillyTeddi LandessA young man looking for love in NYC tries answering a couple of Personal ads. He takes his first date around Central Park but shies from kissing her. He buys the book "Art In Kissing," studies it and takes his second date to Coney Island.
- DirectorEdmond SéchanStarsLouis PaulGilbert HuguesJean-Marie MaillolsSimilar in design and technique to "The Red Baloon", and winner of the 1959 International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this is the story of a boy who has a goldfish as a pet, and the family cat has other plans for the goldfish, and a canary protects it by distracting the cat.
- DirectorRalph KeeneStarsStephen MurrayA look at the wildlife living on the seashore in the UK.
- StarsWinston HiblerIn this Oscar®-nominated short, a submerged reef is the home of many strange creatures. We see mating, birth, and development of the young into adults, with the laws of nature being fulfilled as the battle for survival goes continually on.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeWheaton GalentineIrving JacobyA documentary short subject about the construction of a new skyscraper in late 1950s Manhattan, the Tishman building on prestigious Fifth Avenue.
- DirectorRichard LesterPeter SellersStarsRichard LesterPeter SellersDick BentleyThere is no plot as such. This is a slapstick comedy. It shows a lots of gags.
- DirectorRobert P. DavisStarsEzra R. BakerAn extremely funny film of abstract-expressionist painting.
- DirectorRichard WinikStarsChris SchenkelLewis SanbornA thrilling featurette on daredevil skydivers and parachute jumpers.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsWinston HiblerThe viewer witnesses a panorama of animals inhabiting the islands among the least known of the world: Galapagos, Guadalupe, Falkland and Midway.
- DirectorHilary HarrisStarsBryden MurdochKenneth KendallDocumentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde. In 1960, Glasgow and other towns and ports on the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, were still one of the world's great centres of shipbuilding. The film gives an idea of the business of building a ship - the largest moving thing made by man - from the naval architects who design her to the workmen, the shipbuilders in the yard, through to a ship's launching.
- DirectorJean Dasque
- DirectorRobert McCartyA world of its own exists on the rooftops of NY ranging from affluent to working people; kids to would be painters; and from readers to sunbathers...one thing unites them all -- the world of rooftops in New York.
- DirectorMerrell GageStarsMerrell Gage
- DirectorArthur LipsettThrough an unconventional use of concise narrative, a conceptual collage of sounds and images, and a rapid-fire montage, Arthur Lipsett's first film vividly portrays the urban estrangement in the times of social erosion and materialism.
- DirectorJean-Claude CarrièrePierre ÉtaixStarsGeorges LoriotNono ZammitLucien FrégisA woman is preparing a romantic dinner for two for her and her husband to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Her husband is out running a series of errands, most of his stops to pick up anniversary gifts for his wife. But the anti-anniversary Gods seem to be working against him as Paris traffic and other problems at each stop seem to be holding him up from getting in and out and to home on time for dinner. Meanwhile, his wife has no idea what has happened to her husband. Will it still be a happy anniversary by the time he makes it home?