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Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2011
Print this pageAll five nominees with four bonus shorts!
Short films are underscreened in theatres and underappreciated by audiences. But we’re working to solve both problems! For the third year, Shorts International has collected the Oscar nominees in two categories – Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film – and offered the compilations to cinemas. ByTowne audiences can see for themselves that big entertainment can come in short formats!
Winner of the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film
The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore
Using a variety of techniques, this short is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of books.
(William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg, U.S., 17 min.)
The other Oscar Nominees for Best Animated Short Film:
Dimanche (Sunday)
Every Sunday, it’s the same old thing in this quiet Québec village.
(Patrick Doyon, Canada, 9 min.)
La Luna
A timeless fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances.
(Enrico Casarosa, U.S., 7 min.)
A Morning Stroll
When a New Yorker ignores a chicken who’s out for a morning stroll, we are left to wonder who is the real city slicker.
(Grant Orchard, U.K., 7 min.)
Wild Life
An Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier in 1909, but is singularly unsuited to it.
(Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby, Canada, 14 min.)
Plus 4 Bonus Shorts!
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