56 animated short films qualify for the 2012 Oscar race.
Following a special two-day screening event in New York organized by Patrick Harrison and John Fahr, animator Michael Sporn on his Splog blog details a list of 57 (Update: 56! Sporn's blog inadvertently skips #44) animated shorts that have qualified for the 2012 Oscar race. The number is quite a jump from 2011, when 45 shorts qualified. In 2010, only 33 shorts qualified for the award.
Commenting that the event was “like attending an animation festival compressed into two days,” Sporn notes that the screenings were only for the hard of heart. Here, in alphabetical order, is the complete list. Head over to Sporn’s blog to see which films stood out for him, and let us know your favorites in the comments:
7596 Frames
Adam and Dog
Amazonia
Being BradfordDillman
Belly
Body Memory (KehaMa’I LI)
Bydlo
Cadaver
Chase
Combustible
Daffy’s Rhapsody
Dell’ Ammazzare IlMaiale
Dripped
Edmond Was a Donkey
Fear of Flying
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Here and the GreatElsewhere
House of Monsters
I Hate You, RedLight
I Saw Mice Burying aCat
It’s Such aBeautiful Day
Junkyard
Kali the LittleVampire
Kara
Kubla Khan
La Detente
Lost and Found
Maggie Simpson in ‘TheLongest Daycare’
Oh Willy…
Overcast
Paperman
Pasteurized
Pepe & Lucas
Reflexion
Sammy
Shift
Slow Derek
The Eagleman Stag
The Fall of theHouse of Usher
The Game
The Gruffalo’s Child
The Hybrid Union
The Last Bus(Posledny Autobus)
The Maker
The Making ofLongbird
The Missing Key
The Pub
The Story of Pines
The Tale of a String
The Wind Girl (LaNina de Viento)
Traces
Tram
Wiggle Room
Wolf Dog Tales
Zeinek Gehiago Iraun
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
