Oscar strips down to his animated shorts

Hands down my favorite Oscar winner this year was Kunio Kato’s sublime animated short La maison en petits cubes. So it is with interest I turn to yesterday’s announcement of the short-listed animated shorts for next year.

The only two names to jump out are Peter Sohn’s Partly Cloudy which played before Pixar’s Up and Nick (Wallace and Gromit) Park’s A Matter of Loaf and Death.

You can see trailers for a number of the following pics around the web and you can stream The Cat Piano above.

Here are the short-listed potential nominees:

• The Cat Piano - Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’s Republic of Animation)
• French Roast - Fabrice O. Joubert, director (Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films)
• Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty - Nicky Phelan, director, and Darragh O’Connell, producer (Brown Bag Films)
• The Kinematograph - Tomek Baginski, director-producer (Platige Image)
• The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) - Javier Recio Gracia, director (Kandor Graphics and Green Moon)
• Logorama - Nicolas Schmerkin, producer (Autour de Minuit)
• A Matter of Loaf and Death - Nick Park, director (Aardman Animations Ltd.)
• Partly Cloudy - Sohn, director (Pixar Animation Studios)
• Runaway - Cordell Barker, director (National Film Board of Canada)
• Variete - Roelof van den Bergh, director (il Luster Productions)

Source: THR

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