Now, Piper not only could turn around the losing streak (there have been eight nominees since the last win), but it really deserves to take home the award this year. Pixar has a reputation for churning out Oscar-nominated short films, but the studio hasn’t won in this category since 2002 with For the Birds. Here’s hoping the Academy makes the right choice when deciding the winner of the Oscar – I actually think they will this time. There’s something from Pixar, of course, and new side projects from Pixar and Disney animators, as well as the obligatory foreign (this year actually just Canadian) works. This is the sort of showcase that we should see annually, highlighting some of if not the greatest animated shorts of the past year. Unlike in past rankings, I can’t say it’s “from best to worst” because none of them deserve to be called the latter. You can catch them all in theaters this week, and I recommend that you do.īelow I review the nominees and rank them in order of greatness. This year, the five titles up for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short will be joined by a few additional films from last year, including Once Upon a Line, The Head Vanishes, and Asteria). Every year, Shorts HD brings the 15 contenders in the three short film categories (with occasional exceptions where one or more nominees is not included). If you’re a fan of short films and like to see them on the big screen but can’t attend the major festivals, at least there are the Oscar nominees. Short-form Academy Award nominees hit theaters this week.
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