Academy narrows field for animated short from 60 to 10 contenders.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Nov. 19 that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 88th Academy Awards. Sixty pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
Bear Story (Historia De Un Oso)
Gabriel Osorio, director, and Pato Escala, producer (Punkrobot Animation Studio)
Carface (Autos Portraits)
Claude Cloutier, director (National Film Board of Canada)
If I Was God …
Cordell Barker, director (National Film Board of Canada)
Love in the Time of March Madness
Melissa Johnson and Robertino Zambrano, directors (High Hip Productions and KAPWA Studioworks)
My Home
Phuong Mai Nguyen, director (Papy3D Productions)
An Object at Rest
Seth Boyden, director (California Institute of the Arts)
Prologue
Richard Williams, director, and Imogen Sutton, producer (Animation Masterclass)
Sanjay’s Super Team
Sanjay Patel, director, and Nicole Grindle, producer (Pixar Animation Studios)
We Can’t Live without Cosmos
Konstantin Bronzit, director (Melnitsa Animation Studio)
World of Tomorrow
Don Hertzfeldt, director (Bitter Films)
