Yes, I know I haven't written a post in...three months. (It's been that long already?) That doesn't mean I've gone MIA. I've just been busy with other things. I had some other non-Oscar related animation posts in mind, but I just hadn't had much time to work on it. As a result, I'm afraid I've probably lost whatever readers I did have during this lengthy hiatus. But oh well. It's time to look ahead to the Best Animated Short race for this year.
We're getting to the time when the Academy screens all of the qualified shorts for its voting members to whittle down to the shortlist. Back in 2012 we had the entire list of qualified films as obtained by voter Michael Sporn. Unfortunately, Sporn's tragic passing means we won't have easy access to this list like we did in 2010-2012. Still, the cycle of Best Animated Short will continue, and there will be films in competition for the shortlist.
Luckily for us, we have other animation historians hard at work looking at animation news, including the fellows at Cartoon Brew, where we obtained the longlist from 2010-2012. We don't have the complete list, but editor in chief Amid Amidi has compiled a list of some of the stronger contenders for the award. It's not going to be the complete list, and some on this list may not actually qualify, and I don't necessarily agree with some of his statements in the intro, such as "the category remains among the most obscure of the Oscar categories" or "this is the first-ever attempt by any animation media outlet to highlight the contenders in this Oscar category" (unless he meant this year), but this is the best we have to take a look at the films that we may be focusing on in the next three months.
Get the complete list here, or look at the individual films after the break. (Most are trailers. Some are interviews with the directors. A handful are complete films. Then there's Konstantin Bronzit's We Can't Live Without Cosmos, where we can find nothing as far as videos go.
Absent-Minded (La Testa tra le Nuvole)
Baths
The Bigger Picture
Bus Story
Coda
The Dam Keeper
Duet
Feast
Footprints
Futon
Guilt (Kalte)
Hair (Polis)
Hasta Santiago
Hipopotamy
Kiki of Montparnasse (Mademoiselle Kiki et les Montparnos)
Lava
Love Games
Man on the Chair
Me and My Moulton
Me + Her
No Fish Where to Go
The Obvious Child
Padre
Patch
Rabbit and Deer
Sleeping with the Fishes
Symphony No. 42
Through the Hawthorn
We Can't Live Without Cosmos (Mi ne Mozhem Zhit bez Kosmosa)
Yearbook
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