It's that time of year. Earlier today the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the shortlist of 10 different Oscar categories, including Best Documentary Feature, Best International Film, and our favorite category Best Animated Short. This means it's the time of year where I drag myself out of hibernation and take a look at the films that could join classics like A Greek Tragedy and Magoo's Puddle Jumper in the annals of films to win Best Animated Short.
One big change for this year's race is the fact that 15 films are on the shortlist as opposed to ten in previous shortlists. I think this is a pretty good change, as it provides a larger list of films to explore (since nobody actually cares about all of the qualifying films, of which there were reportedly 84 this year). Plus, it seems like a tighter race with one of three films getting a nomination instead of just one of two.
Anyways, unfortunately I haven't really paid attention to any of the short films this year, so my knowledge on these 15 finalists are fairly limited, so let's explore them together!
