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Mar 12, 2023 · LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA This evening, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors Apple Original Film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse with the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, at the 95th Annual Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
- “The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse”
- “The Flying Sailor”
- “Ice Merchants”
- “An Ostrich Told Me The World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It”
- “My Year of Dicks”
At least one traditional animation offering must be recognized, and this year it’s a gracious morality tale about a young boy who finds his way home with the help of a motley group of animals. British illustrator and cartoonist Charlie Mackesy adapts his bestseller with the help of animator Peter Baynton, who enlisted the voice talents of Tom Holla...
Based on the true story of a sailor who survived the largest accidental explosion in history, this spirited short takes an abstracted view of a man’s life flashing before his eyes. The inciting incident took place in 1917, when two ships collided in the Halifax Harbor, sending one rough and tumble sailor flying in the air before landing safely, but...
The most visually striking film of the nominees, the hauntingly beautiful “Ice Merchants” is an elegiac family tale set on the side of a cliff. Incidentally, it also hails from the youngest filmmaker of the bunch, 27-year-old Portuguese filmmaker João Gonzalez, making “Ice Merchants” the first Portuguese film to earn an Oscar nomination. An illust...
Tapping into a surrealist office ennui that is both timeless and depressingly au courant, this mouthful of a title is well worth the extra word count. Australian animator Lachlan Pendragon takes a cheeky look at the whole stop-motion animation apparatus, endowing his main character with self-awareness that leads to an existential crisis. Imagine an...
The film with the catchiest and most provocative title don’t always win out, but in this case, the product delivers as advertised. This autobiographical comedy combines elements of documentary (and even some fuzzy VHS footage) for a nominally hybrid affair, though it’s primarily told through a few different styles of computer animation. Set in 1991...
- Jude Dry
Mar 10, 2023 · Here's where to stream the short films nominated in the live-action, animation, and documentary categories at the 95th Academy Awards.
Mar 9, 2023 · 2023 Oscars best animated short predictions include " "The Flying Sailor," "My Year of Dicks" and “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.”
The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1931–32, to the present.
Mar 7, 2023 · We ranked the 15 Oscar-nominated shorts at the 2023 Academy Awards in Live-Action, Documentary, and Animation. Some of the year's best nominees are in the shorts categories, so let's break...
Feb 3, 2023 · At the 2023 Academy Awards, 15 short films will be competing in three award categories: animated, live-action, and documentary. There is a wide range of short films that have been nominated, and there is a lot we can learn from each project.
