Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts: You Be the Judge
Today has been an extremely eventful day and only now do I have some time to reflect on what happened. Don’t worry people, I will let you know on Monday what happened when everything is for sure. I certainly do not want to jinx it until then. On that note, I was able to catch the Oscar nominated shorts today at a program at the Nuart in West LA and I wanted to share my thoughts on what was statue-worthy and what was truly bad….
Why Up Deserves an Oscar
I think Up deserves an Oscar. Not only is it the best animated picture of the year, it is one that convinced me that digital animation is a formidable medium that I would be well-served to accept. What I really liked about Up is that although a children’s film, its message of life after death is actually quite grown up, and not in the grown up, slyly winking style of a Wes Anderson Fantastic Mr. Fox but grown up in the fact that the movie’s…
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