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[Peter T Chattaway]

Cartoon Brew has the list of 45 qualifying films:

• A Morning Stroll by Grant Orchard (Studio AKA)
  
• A Shadow of Blue by Carlos Lascano
  
• Birdboy by Alberto Vasquez (Abrikim Studio)
  
• Chopin’s Drawings by Dorota Kobiela (BreakThru Films) Poland
  
• Correspondence by Zach Hyer (Pratt)
  
• Daisy Cutter by Enrique Garcia and Rubin Salazar (Silverspace)
  
• Dimanche / Sunday by Patrick Doyon (NFB)
  
• El Salon Mexico by Paul Glickman and Tamarind King
  
• Enrique Wrecks the World by David Chai
  
• Ente Tod Und Tulipe (Duck Death and the Tulip) by Matthias Bruhn (Richard Lutterbeck – Trickstudio)
  
• Fat Hamster by Adam Wyrwas (BreakThru Films) Poland
  
• Grandpa Looked Like William Powell by David B. Levy
  
• Hamster Heaven by Paul Bolger (BreakThru Films) Poland
  
• I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat by Matt O’Callaghan (Warner Bros.)
  
• I Was the Child of Holocaust Survivors by Anne Marie Fleming (NFB)
  
• Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest by Kevin Sean Michaels USA
  
• Kahanikar by Nandita Jain (National Film and Television School) England
  
• La Luna by Enrico Casarosa (Pixar)
  
• Little Postman by Dorota Kobiela (BreakThru Films) Poland
  
• Luminaris by Juan Pablo Zaramella (JPZaramella Studios)
  
• Luna by Donna Brockopp (Rainmaker) Canada
  
• Maska by Timothy and Stephen Quay (Sem-ma-for) Poland
  
• Muybridge’s Strings by Koji Yamamura
  
• My Hometown by Jerry Levitan, Written and Narrated by Yoko Ono (Eggplant)
  
• Night Island by Salvador Maldonado (BreakThru Films) Poland
  
• Nullarbor by Alister Lockhart
  
• Papa’s Boy by Leevi Lemmetty (BreakThru Films) Poland
  
• Paths of Hate by Damien Nenow (Platige Image) Poland
  
• Romance by George Schwizgebel (NFB & Studio GDS)
  
• Specky Four-Eyes by Jean Claude Rozec (Vivement Lundi)
  
• Spirits of the Piano by Magdalena Osinska (BreakThru Films) Poland
  
• Thank You by Pen Ward and Thomas Herpich (Cartoon Network/Frederator)
  
• The Ballad of Nessie by Stevie Wermers (Walt Disney Studios)
  
• The External World by David O’ Reilly
  
• The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg (Moonbot Studios)
  
• The Gloaming by Nobrain (Autour De Minuit) France
  
• The Lost Town of Switez by Kamil Polak (Human Ark) Poland
  
• The Magic Piano by Martin Clapp (BreakThru Films) Poland
  
• The Monster of Nix by Rosto
  
• The Renter by Jason Carpenter (CalArts)
  
• The Smurf’s A Christmas Carol by Troy Quane (Sony Pictures Animation)
  
• The Tannery by Iain Gardner
  
• The Vermeers by Tal S. Shamir
  
• Vincenta by Samuel Orti Marti
  
• Wild Life by Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby (NFB)

This list will eventually be narrowed down to ten, before it is narrowed down even further to the final five nominees.

Edited by Peter T Chattaway, 24 January 2012 - 09:59 AM.

[Peter T Chattaway]

And the ten that made the shortlist are:

• A Morning Stroll by Grant Orchard (Studio AKA)
  
• Dimanche / Sunday by Patrick Doyon (NFB)
  
• I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat by Matt O’Callaghan (Warner Bros.)
  
• La Luna by Enrico Casarosa (Pixar)
  
• Luminaris by Juan Pablo Zaramella (JPZaramella Studios)
  
• Paths of Hate by Damien Nenow (Platige Image) Poland
  
• Specky Four-Eyes by Jean Claude Rozec (Vivement Lundi)
  
• The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg (Moonbot Studios)
  
• The Magic Piano by Martin Clapp (BreakThru Films) Poland
  
• Wild Life by Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby (NFB)

Half of these films will be nominated. Half will not. And only one will win. Oooo, the suspense.

[Peter T Chattaway]

The Annie Awards have nominated the following nine films for Best Animated Short; five of them (marked in bold) are also on the Oscars' short list:

• Adam and Dog – Lodge Films
  
• I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat – Warner Bros. Animation
  
• La Luna – Pixar Animation Studios
  
• (Notes on) Biology – Ornana Films
  
• Paths of Hate – Platige Image
  
• Sunday – National Film Board of Canada
  
• The Ballad of Nessie – Walt Disney Animation Studios
  
• The Girl and the Fox – Base14
  
• Wild Life - National Film Board of Canada and Studio GDS

FWIW, I haven't looked into how often the Annies and the Oscars have lined up in this category.

[Peter T Chattaway]

Vote!

And note that the only Annie nominees to make the Academy's list are the Pixar nominee and the two National Film Board of Canada nominees.

[Peter T Chattaway]

I don't know if any of the nominees are online in their entirety right now, but you can at least see clips and/or trailers for the two National Film Board nominees at the following links:

• Sunday/Dimanche -- trailer
  
• Wild Life -- 2 clips, download entire 13.5-minute film for $1.95

Trailers for two more nominees are up at Vimeo.com:

Edited by Peter T Chattaway, 30 January 2012 - 04:25 AM.

[Peter T Chattaway]

And then there's the clip from Pixar's sole nominee this year, La Luna -- which will play before Brave when that film opens in a few months:

[Darrel Manson]

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is on vimeo:

[Peter T Chattaway]

Peter T Chattaway, on 05 December 2011 - 01:28 PM, said:

The Annie Awards have nominated the following nine films for Best Animated Short; five of them (marked in bold) are also on the Oscars' short list . . .

And the winner is... Adam and Dog, which didn't even make the Academy's list of 45 qualifying films, let alone any of the short lists.

Here's a trailer:

[Darrel Manson]

See where the Oscar Nominated Shorts are playing near you.

[Darrel Manson]

My brief write up of the films

[N.K. Carter]

Last-minute write-up on filmwell.

Incidentally, religion crops up in 4 out of the ten nominated short films, and not in an especially negative way. There's actual church scenes in Dimanche/Sunday and Pentecost (neither especially reverent, although there's a bit of affection in Dimanche), a brief interview with a vicar in Wild Life, and a sweet if tactless character who's a minister from a local "Jesus Club" in Tuba Atlantic. Pentecost is the only one with much to say about religion, though, humorously flipping around the old "sports as a religion" to "religion as a sport."