Ah, the memories. This was the first time I reviewed the
Oscar-nominated animated shorts, in the second year that I had seen the
nominees before the ceremony. That year most people were interested in
seeing how many awards
Slumdog Millionaire would win. I wasn't
too concerned, as I had only seen four
(yes, only four) of all the nominated films at that time, so I can't say
I'm too
excited about the traditional awards. Therefore, my main focal points
were seeing if Heath Ledger can shake off the stigma of being dead and
win Best Supporting Actor posthumously...and the Best
Animated Short category. It's interesting to look back at my progression
at watching the nominees. Back then, two years after trying to watch
the winners and a year after starting to watch all the nominees I had
seen 73/76 (96%) of the winners and 275 / 317 (87%) of the nominees, or
87%. Three years later I had seen 100% of the winners, and 322/332 (97%)
of the nominees.
Evidently I've kind of hit the bottleneck.
