The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Short Films and Feature Animation Branch reviewing committee is advancing 10 animated short films to be voted on by the branch for Oscar nominations. Fifty-eight pictures had originally qualified in the category. While Disney frontrunner "Feast," from Patrick Osborne, is on the shortlist, and Bill Plympton has two shorts in contention, shockingly, Pixar's "Lava" (James Ford) did not make the cut. What gives? The Academy confirms that it was eligible. It's delightful. This will mark an unusual year with no Pixar Oscar nominee, as they did not release a 2014 feature. Also left off the list were fest favorites "Baths" (Tomek Ducki), "Me + Her" (Joseph Oxford), "Nieta" (Nicolas Villarreal) and "Padre" (Santiago Bou Grasso). The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies: “The Bigger...
- 11/6/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The idea of living things standing in for everyday objects in an animated story isn’t exactly new – The Flintstones were doing it years ago – but while things like the bird alarm clock were played for laughs, Santiago Grasso’s 2009 animated short The Employment (El Empleo) takes things in an entirely different direction. A nameless man wakes up and prepares to go to work. His mirror doesn’t hang on the wall – it’s held up by an unknown man. He sits on the backs of nameless people as he eats his breakfast off a human table. He rides to the office on the back of another man. It’s a world where every mundane thing that a machine or inanimate object does in our world is handled by a living, breathing person. This continues on for...
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- 9/1/2011
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
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