The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 87th Academy Awards. Fifty-eight pictures had originally qualified in the category.
Ten short films, including the new Disney short and work from past Oscar winners Torill Kove, William Joyce and Brandon Oldenberg, and two-time nominee Bill Plympton, have been shortlisted in the 2014 competition for the Oscars Best Animated Short category.
Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will select three to five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in December.
Disney’s Feast, which will screen with the company’s upcoming Big Hero 6, also made the shortlist. So did Footprints from Plympton, one of the most iconic independent animators of the last few decades, who was previously nominated for shorts in 1987 and 2004.
The Bigger Picture, Daisy Jacobs, director, and Christopher Hees, producer (National Film and Television School),Coda Alan Holly, director (And Maps And Plans),The Dam Keeper Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, directors (Tonko House),Duet Glen Keane, director (Glen Keane Productions & ATAP), Feast Patrick Osborne, director, and Kristina Reed, producer (Walt Disney Animation Studios) Footprints Bill Plympton, director (Bill Plympton Studio), Me and My Moulton Torill Kove, director (Mikrofilm in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada),The Numberlys William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, directors (Moonbot Studios), A Single Life Joris Oprins, director (Job, Joris & Marieke), Symphony No. 42 Réka Bucsi, director (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest) are the ten movies that have been short-listed for the Oscars Best Animated Short category.
The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, 15 January 2015, at 5:30 am PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre.