{"id":14404,"date":"2012-02-17T00:46:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14404"},"modified":"2012-02-17T00:46:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:46:03","slug":"84th-academy-awards-short-film-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/17\/84th-academy-awards-short-film-animated\/","title":{"rendered":"84th Academy Awards: Short Film (Animated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14389\" title=\"84th Academy Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of this year&#8217;s animated shorts (e.g. The Fantastic Flying Books&#8230;, Wild Life) have been made available in full online, but where they haven&#8217;t I&#8217;ve included a trailer. (Also, be sure to check out the links to interviews.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1895334\/\">DIMANCHE<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/shorts\/oscar-focus-sunday.html\">Patrick Doyon<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featuring traditional hand-drawn animation, this Canadian short from director <a title=\"Patrick Doyon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Doyon\">Patrick Doyon<\/a>\u00a0is about a boy who plays with coins\u00a0on a train track whilst visiting his grandparents.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21137303?color=ff00aa\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/dimanche_bande_annonce\">download it from the National Film Board of Canada<\/a>\u00a0and there is an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.animationmagazine.net\/features\/sunday-afternoon-with-patrick\/\">interview with Doyon in Animation Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1778342\/\">THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR MORRIS LESSMORE<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/cgi\/oscar-focus-morris-lessmore.html\">William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A story about the healing powers of storytelling, it follows a man who loses his books in a hurricane, only to find them somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/35404908?color=ff00aa\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Directed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamjoyce.com\/\">William Joyce<\/a>\u00a0(formerly of Pixar and Dreamworks) and co-directed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/brandonbot\">Brandon Oldenburg<\/a>, who are both of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonbotstudios.com\/\">Moonbot Studios<\/a>.\u00a0It is also available as a companion\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/the-fantastic-flying-books\/id438052647\">interactive iPad storybook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1957945\/\">LA LUNA<\/a><\/strong> <strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/enricocasarosa.com\/wordpress.1\/\">Enrico Casarosa<\/a>)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A coming of age fable about a young boy who is taken out to sea on a boat by his Father and Grandfather.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bD3F1mPjh5U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Enrico Casarosa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=olxTcA18lXo\">talks to David Poland for 30 minutes here<\/a> and you can get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1957945\/\">more details on the film at the IMDb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1964446\/\">A MORNING STROLL<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioaka.co.uk\/\">Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Based on an event recounted in Paul Auster&#8217;s book &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/True-Tales-American-Life-Auster\/dp\/0571210708\">True Tales of American Life<\/a>&#8216;, which tells the story of a New Yorker&#8217;s early morning encounter with a chicken.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xmNdoeU5lq0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Already a BAFTA winner for Short film Animation 2012, it also won at Sundance 2012. Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-16873627\">BBC News<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studioaka.co.uk\/#\/work-amorningstroll\">Studio AKA site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2097943\/\">WILD LIFE<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/shorts\/oscar-focus-amanda-forbis-and-wendy-tilby-talk-wild-life.html\">Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The story of a dapper young remittance man sent from England to Alberta in 1909.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WtbkNCc0tj4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/livingincinema.com\/2012\/01\/18\/forbis-and-tilby-talk-about-wild-life\/\">interview with Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby at Living in Cinema<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onf-nfb.gc.ca\/medias\/download\/documents\/pdf\/Wild_Life_NFB_Press_kit_EN.pdf\">the official PDF press kit<\/a> at the National Film Board of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/shorts\/oscar-focus-amanda-forbis-and-wendy-tilby-talk-wild-life.html\">this interview at Cartoon Brew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\">Official Oscar site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/events\/the-academy-short-list.html\">Cartoon Brew&#8217;s coverage of this years animated nominees<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Animated Shorts category at this year&#8217;s Oscars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,21],"tags":[2434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}