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 Bradford Dillman
- Belly
- Body Memory (Keha Ma’I LI)
- Bydlo
- Cadaver
- Chase
- Combustible
- Daffy’s Rhapsody
- Dell’ Ammazzare Il Maiale
- Dripped
- Edmond Was a Donkey
- Fear of Flying
- Fresh Guacamole
- Head Over Heels
- Here and the Great Elsewhere
- House of Monsters
- I Hate You, Red Light
- I Saw Mice Burying a Cat
- It’s Such a Beautiful Day
- Junkyard
- Kali the Little Vampire
- Kara
- Kubla Khan
- La Detente
- Lost and Found
- Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare’
- Oh Willy…
- Overcast
- Paperman
- Pasteurized
- Pepe & Lucas
- Reflexion
- Sammy
- Shift
- Slow Derek
- The Eagleman Stag
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Game
- The Gruffalo’s Child
- The Hybrid Union
- The Last Bus (Posledny Autobus)
- The Maker
- The Making of Longbird
- The Missing Key
- The Pub
- The Story of Pines
- The Tale of a String
- The Wind Girl (La Nina de Viento)
- Traces
- Tram
- Wiggle Room
- Wolf Dog Tales
- Zeinek Gehiago Iraun
