For over 10 years, ShortsHD has been bringing the Oscar nominated short films in the Animation, Live Action and Documentary categories to audiences across the globe with exclusive theatrical runs. This year’s nominees will be arriving in cinemas January 29, giving you the chance to check out the competition before the Awards Ceremony on February 28.
A full list of participating theaters is available here: shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/dates-locations
In addition to the theatrical run, ShortsHD is making the Animation and Live-Action shorts available to buy online and through VOD/Pay Per View platforms including AT&T, DirecTV, Vubiquity, InDemand, Comcast, Cable Vision, XBox, Sony, Century Link, Vimeo, Frontier and Google Fiber. More information on watching On Demand is available here: www.shorts.tv/theoscarshorts/online-and-vod/#online-1
Best Animated Short Oscar Nominees
BEAR STORY
Country of origin: Chile
Directed by: Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala
TRT: 11
Every day, a melancholy old bear takes a mechanical diorama that he has created out to his street corner. For a coin, passersby can look into the peephole of his invention, which tells the story of a circus bear who longs to escape and return to the family from which he was taken.
PROLOGUE
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Directed by: Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton
TRT: 6
2,400 years ago, four warriors — two Spartan and two Athenian — battle to the death in an intense struggle witnessed by a little girl, who then runs to her grandmother for comfort.
SANJAY’S SUPER TEAM
Country of origin: United States
Language: English
Directed by: Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle
TRT: 7
Young Sanjay, a first-generation Indian-American, is obsessed with television, cartoons and his superhero action figures. He is reluctant to spend time in daily prayers with his devout Hindu father, but a flight of imagination helps him develop a new perspective that he and his father can both embrace.
WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT COSMOS
Country of origin: Russia
Directed by: Konstantin Bronzit
TRT: 16
Two best friends have dreamed since childhood of becoming cosmonauts, and together they endure the rigors of training and public scrutiny, and make the sacrifices necessary to achieve their shared goal.
WORLD OF TOMORROW
Country of origin: United States
Language: English
Directed by: Don Hertzfeldt
TRT: 17
A little girl named Emily is taken on a fantastical tour of her distant future by a surprising visitor who reveals unnerving secrets about humanity’s fate.
