Well today's the big day! It's the day of the Oscar announcement, and the day we find out what five films will join in the annals of Oscar history of Best Animated Short nominees. Well, it's been three hours since the nominations were announced, so that isn't that much of a surprise anymore. However, this was an unprecedented year and all ten of the shortlisted films were made available for public consumption. Some of the films have been taken down by now, but as a result for the third time since I've been following this category, I have seen all five nominees on the day of the nomination announcement, and I can go ahead and post my review. I may try to make a showing, just because I do really like this particular crop of nominees.
As far as the rest of the nominations go, I'm afraid I haven't kept up with life action films as much. I do know that the Academy dropped their plans for a Best Popular Film category and just went ahead and nominated Black Panther for the award. The only other Best Picture nominee I saw was Bohemian Rhapsody and was somewhat underwhelmed. Yes, I still haven't seen BlackkKlansman, The Favourite, Green Book, Roma, A Star is Born, or Vice. I am 5/5 on the Best Animated Feature nominees: Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs, Mirai, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. I will note that Mirai is the first animated film from Japan not made by Studio Ghibli to get a nomination in this category. Unfortunately, I still think Wolf Children is Mamoru Hosoda's stronger film.
And in case you're wondering, the Studio Ghibli films that got a nomination were Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, and When Marnie was There.
Anyways, I don't have much else to say about the other films, so let's just go to the reviews.
