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Best Animated Short Film: Most of the animated short nominees aren't streaming, but you'll be able to catch them in theaters soon: as with the other short categories, ShortsHD will package all of the animated short nominees together into a single screening — I've gone to this about three years now, and it's always a fun time.
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Ultimately, Dämmrich would like to create an independent animated short.
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The animation won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
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Bryant was nominated for Best Animated Short Film for Dear Basketball.
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Check the Oscars' website for local theaters screening animated short nominees.
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His film, "Dear Basketball," won last weekend for best animated short.
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"Steamboat Willie" was the third animated short drawn, not the fourth.
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The animated short "Hair Love" is available on Sony's YouTube page.
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"Hair Love," an animated short film about a black father doing his daughter's hair won an Oscar for best animated short, and it's director and producer advocated for an anti-hair-discrimination bill in their acceptance speeches.
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So at first, we accumulated experience by doing some animated short films.
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Won: Best Animated Short Available: to buy on YouTube, iTunes, Google Play.
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Their 22012 animated short "Cloudy" featured lighthearted clouds making music and rain.
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My "cinematic" projects include my animated short film and fashion campaign films.
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In 2017, Bryant's animated short film "Dear Basketball" won an Academy Award.
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Animated Short Explores Escaping a Father's Cycle of Hatred When Artists Kill
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The animated short film, "In a Heartbeat," also earned a special recognition award.
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Later on Sunday night, "Hair Love" won an Oscar for best animated short.
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And it's a 2D animated short, which isn't the usual realm for Pixar.
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And Ru Kuwahata directed the animated short Negative Space, which was also nominated.
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Pearl Patrick Osborne's animated short isn't just a movie — it's an immersive experience.
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The announcement was accompanied by an Overwatch animated short featuring the new character.
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Today's new trailer condenses Prey's new backstory into a three-minute animated short.
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"Old Man" (2012) is an animated short film featuring audio interviews with Manson.
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Pixar will have to be content with its Animated Short nomination for Piper.
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"Hair Love" is nominated for Best Animated Short at the 92nd Academy Awards.
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For example, the Oscar for best animated short went to Kim Jong-un.
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The former basketball star won the award for Best Animated Short with Dear Basketball.
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No one is having a worse day than the robots in this animated short.
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This animated short, Wrapped by Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, shows a glimpse of that happening.
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Unlike past demos, "Book of the Dead" is more than just a beautiful animated short.
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The winner of the 1983 award for best animated short gave a pretty disastrous speech.
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The New Yorker first reported the details of CBS's decision to censor the animated short.
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Henry, a VR animated short about a hedgehog, received an Emmy for Outstanding Original Interactive Program.
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In 2018, she was also nominated in the Oscar's Best Animated Short Film category for Lou.
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Won: Best Animated Short Film How to watch: Dear Basketball is available to stream on go90.
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It's also produced Pearl, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film in 2017.
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A composite of the GoPro drone seen in the animated short and from a leaked image.
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It's a beautifully animated short film full of little technical doodads, gizmos, pulleys, cogs, and mechanisms.
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Together, they won Best Animated Short at AFI Fest 2010 for their Marcel viral YouTube videos.
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The last of the three shorts is an animated short from Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichiro Watanabe.
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The Oscar-nominated animated short, Hair Love, was also written and directed by a Black artist.
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The butterflies of a first encounter take flight Zachary Zezima's forthcoming animated short, It's a Date.
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However, some audiences were quite angered with the animated short ahead of Coco titled Olaf's Frozen Adventure.
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Still, Animated Short Film was one of the only Oscar categories that approached gender parity in directing.
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At 37 minutes long, the animated short has a meatier plot than its 16-page source material.
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Blizzard has premiered the latest Overwatch animated short at Gamescom, focusing on the ice-wielding hero, Mei.
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The winner of Best Animated Short, "Bao", was written and directed by Domee Shi, a Chinese-Canadian.
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Sarah is planning to make an animated short film, while Keith is designing his own video game.
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But don't forget about the often overlooked categories of Best Animated Short and Best Live-Action Short.
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These are a few of the motifs that crop up in the meticulously animated short film, Hardboiled.
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This quirky Japanese animated short film is like the movie version of playing with LEGO while high.
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The animated short film was directed and animated by Glen Keane and scored by composer John Williams.
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With the win, Cherry became the second former athlete to win an Oscar for best animated short.
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Soothing factory footage gets dark in an animated short by London-based motion graphics designer Michael Marczewski.
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He also won an Oscar in 2018 for an animated short, "Dear Basketball," that he wrote and narrated.
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Wood previously narrated the Emmy Award-winning Henry, an animated short from Oculus' now-shuttered VR film studio.
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In 2017, Keane directed Oscar-winning "Dear Basketball," an animated short film based on Kobe Bryant's retirement poem.
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"Congratulations to my good friend @kobebryant for winning the Oscar for best animated short film," Johnson, 58, tweeted.
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Domee Shi, director of Pixar's Bao, received the Oscar for Best Animated Short alongside producer Becky Neiman-Cobb.
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And there's "Time Stops," an animated short she co-wrote with her frequent collaborator, the musician Ryan Forever.
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This is what Dutch animator Pieter Vandenabeele explores in his animated short A Dog's Life (Hondenleven, in Dutch).
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Oculus Story Studio has won an Emmy for its second film, a Pixar-esque animated short called Henry.
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Though it didn't take home an Oscar, it did win the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject.
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A surreal world of possibility opens up in a new animated short inspired by a Federico García Lorca poem.
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Director Domee Shi explores parenthood, empty-nest syndrome and lots of food in the Pixar animated short film, "Bao."
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This is one of the many reasons the nomination of Pixar's Bao for Best Animated Short is so monumental.
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Earlier this week, Unity revealed a teaser for The Heretic, an animated short designed to showcase lifelike virtual humans.
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The former Los Angeles Lakers player, 39, took home the Best Animated Short award Sunday night for Dear Basketball.
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Kobe Bryant, who has been accused of rape, took home the statue for Best Animated Short for Dear Basketball.
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Even the smallest superhero of them all has enormous bad days, as shown in this animated short from CineFix.
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Indeed, the then 14-year-old Bird mailed his unsolicited finished animated short to the animators at Walt Disney.
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This is the noir, sci-fi world of None, a new animated short by Ash Thorp and Christopher Bjerre.
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" In a statement, CBS All Access said: "We had concerns with some subject matter in the episode's animated short.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the order of the creation of an animated short with Mickey Mouse.
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He is nominated for an Oscar for producing "Dear Basketball," an animated short based on a poem he wrote.
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Animated Short Film Nominees Animal BehaviourDirected by: Alison Snowden and David FineThe Gist: What would animals talk about in therapy?
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Filmmaker Tomek Baginski, best known for his Oscar-nominated animated short The Cathedral, is also involved, along with Jarek Sawko.
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LouDirector: Dave Mullins and Dana MurrayThe Gist: This Pixar animated short film takes place in a school playground during recess.
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Andy Kennedy played on that fear by showing sleep disturbances from outside and within in his animated short Slow Wave.
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Former Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant took home the Oscar for Best Animated Short for his film Dear Basketball.
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This fun animated short by Pieter Vandenabeele imagines a dog's life and how wacky he gets when he's left alone.
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" And then an hour later he was actually saying the words, "And now, to present Best Animated Short, the Minions.
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Alice, from a new animated short titled The Last Job on Earth, is not like the rest of the us.
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Still, he made a fragrant impression: "For Scent-imental Reasons" (1949) won the Academy Award for best animated short film.
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The full animated short is available for purchase on Amazon in a collection with the other 2018 Oscar nominated shorts.
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Six months later the department published an animated short that showed Trump and Vladimir Putin as lovers, stirring accusations of homophobia.
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Within a few years, Puertolas had gotten the attention of DreamWorks by sending the company an animated short film he'd made.
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Chilean filmmakers Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala won for Best Animated Short category with Bear Story, marking the country's first win.
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November 18th marks the 90-year anniversary of the iconic Disney character's first appearance in the animated short film Steamboat Willie.
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Eats pizza You've got to do something to pass the time between Best Film Editing and Best Animated Short Film. 5.
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The Guardian, in collaboration with studio The Moth Collective, created the animated short as part of the publication's sustainable business section.
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In order to showcase this new feature, the company has worked with Artella on a WebVR animated short called Lily & Snout.
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The company also creates interactive animated apps to go with the children's books, as well as music and animated short films.
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In 20, he won an Academy Award for best animated short film for 'Dear Basketball,' his love letter to the sport.
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It's a trippy story that with overtones of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and it would make for a particularly great animated short.
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During Sundance, Oculus offered an early look at the unfinished Dear Angelica, an upcoming animated short for its Rift virtual reality headset.
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Mary CG animation is designed by Patrick Osborne (creator of Academy Award- winning animated short, The Feast), who is also executive producer.
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This animated short co-produced by BBC Research & Development and VRTOV is beautiful to look at, and is another all-ages experience.
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Gabrielle Union, who attended with Dwyane Wade, her husband, high-fived Ava DuVernay when "Hair Love" won for best animated short film.
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It was actually her graduate thesis – an animated short about a girl traveling through a magical yet treacherous landscape called "Move Mountain".
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This expansion is another micro-erosion of the shorts dominance of Walt Disney, which has historically cleaned up the animated short film category.
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In 2006, we made the animated short film Swallowtail, which had won three of the most significant awards in the Chinese animation industry.
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This new animated short from Pixar animators Lou Hamou-Lhadj and Andrew Coats is not for the faint of heart — or for children.
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Kobe Bryant now has an Oscar thanks to everyone who voted for Dear Basketball to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
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We checked out a little of Allumette at Sundance, but the full 20-minute animated short didn't premiere until this month at Tribeca.
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That same year, he took home the award for Best Animated Concept at the Ottawa International Animation Festival for his animated short Wormholes.
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In this mostly animated short from Great Big Story, Melvin talks about what it's like to come home after time spent in space.
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" On display at the show was a still from an animated short film that he made as an undergraduate, "The Man Who Yelled.
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The animated short centers on an African-American father who is learning how to style his daughter's natural hair for the first time.
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He won an Oscar in 2018 for the animated short film Dear Basketball: The Legend of Kobe Bryant, which he produced and wrote.
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Matthew A. Cherry's animated short "Hair Love," about a young girl struggling with her unruly hair, was just nominated for an Academy Award.
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This animated short from Harold Rensoli, which played at Muestra Joven in 2013, looks at what might lead a person to consider suicide.
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The scroll of Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala, winners of the best animated short film, included thanks to the Chilean government and Brooks Brothers.
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"This is a three-minute animated short inspired by a happy toddler, an unhappy car ride, and a pink muppet," reads the video's description.
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A similar technique was used in Alexander Petrov's 103 "The Old Man and the Sea," which won the Academy Award for best animated short.
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Talk Your animated short, "Bao," which is currently screening before "Incredibles 2," is about a woman who raises a pork dumpling as her son.
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Our CineFix series, Bad Days, explores that very question with this animated short depicting a very bad day (and future) for the heroic X-Men.
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Previous "screenings" have included John Huston's The Misfits (1961), The Hustler (1961), Saturday Night Fever (1977), and the Chuck Jones animated short, What's Opera Doc?
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In 2004, we made the Flash animated short film version of Big Fish, which got a significant view count and received lots of attention online.
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Sarah Silverman backstage at the Oscars Director Gabriel Osorio Vargas (L) and producer Pato Escala Pierart, winners of Best Animated Short Film for 'Bear Story.
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In total, 15 short films are nominated, five in the categories of Best Animated Short, Best Documentary Short Subject, and Best Live Action Short Film.
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The animated short film LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape has been unfolding over five installments this past week on the Jurassic World YouTube channel.
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The best animated short Oscar went to Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala, two Chileans; and the best documentary short winner, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, is Pakistani.
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Blizzard's latest animated short for its team shooter Overwatch is out today, and it features the origin story of the convertible robot-turret hero Bastion.
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Mickey made his public debut in "Steamboat Willie", an animated short film in 1928 and the first of its kind to synchronize animation and audio.
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Narrated by Ethan Hawke, Baobab Studios' animated short film is about a bunny (or two… look down!) that saves the world from an alien invasion.
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In their new animated short film, illustrator June Tate and director Zach Johnston perfectly sum up the ridiculous tall tales that kids tell each other.
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Last year the studio won an Emmy for its animated short Henry, a Pixar-esque story about a prickly hedgehog that loves to give hugs.
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But arguably Bryant's most impressive off-court accomplishment was writing and narrating "Dear Basketball," the Academy Award-winning animated short about his love of basketball.
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" The funny animal jukebox musical cartoon has a long and honorable history, dating back to, for example, the 1936 animated short "I Love to Singa.
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Consumed by existential discontent, a impatient King slowly consumes his entire universe in this allegorical animated short about greed, desire, and the agony of existence.
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There are also two spinoff movies for Puss n Boots and several animated short films, and who can forget the television series AND television specials?
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The Mamba's been nominated for Best Animated Short for "Dear Basketball" -- and he's clearly enjoying everything that goes along with being a nominee ... including free lunch!
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There's also an animated short film called An Imagined Conversation: Kanye West and Stephen Hawking that portrays an imagined conversation between... Kanye West and Stephen Hawking.
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At last night's Oscars, the Academy awarded former NBA star Kobe Bryant for his work as the writer and star of the animated short Dear Basketball.
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She's the main influence for a new animated short from the Mixtape Club, the audiovisual creative studio that previously created this delectable short film about happiness.
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Trash Truck is an animated series in production from Max Keane, Gennie Rim, and Glen Keane (who won the Oscar for best animated short last year).
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Spies in Disguise is inspired by an animated short film called Pigeon: Impossible (!!) and frankly, that seems like reason enough to just go with its goofiness.
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There's also Domee Shi, the first woman to direct a Pixar short, winning Best Animated Short for Bao, a film rooted in the Asian American experience.
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He has also teamed up with Tilda Cobham-Hervey, his "Hotel Mumbai" co-star and girlfriend, on "Roborovski," an animated short about a murderous mini-hamster.
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The British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster even created a 2011 work, "Hair," starring the band: an animated short featuring moving silhouettes of the group.
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At the Oscars, it's the big-ticket categories that tend to draw the most attention, but this year the winner for animated short rose to prominence.
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Matthew A. Cherry, director of the animated short "Hair Love," dedicated its victory to the late Kobe Bryant, while speaking of the need for greater representation.
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Kobe Bryant was just nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his movie, "Dear Basketball" ... but it begs the question, Time's Up?
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Osborne won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for "Feast," and is now directing "Nimona" for Fox and Blue Sky, based on the popular graphic novel.
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"Little Women" scored the award for best costume design and "Hair Love," a project that was funded through Kickstarter, took home the prize for best animated short.
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Sure, the animated short Blade Runner: Blackout, which helped set up last year's Blade Runner 2049, was pretty good, but a full-fledged series just seems gratuitous.
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The beloved robot rolled out on stage to join costars Mark Hamill, Oscar Isaac and Kelly Marie Tran to present the award for Best Animated Short Film.
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Directed by Rashida Jones, the animated short features Donald Glover as narrator, and illustrates power dynamics and what's OK when it comes to social interaction at work.
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Proving once again that whatever it touches turns to gold, acclaimed Japanese production house Studio Ghibli, adapted a 12th century picture scroll into a magnificent animated short.
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Duke said that "Plane Crazy" was the first Mickey drawing, though "Steamboat Willie," the third animated short, was the first one with Mickey to be theatrically released.
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Through this company, the basketball star wrote and narrated a short film called "Dear Basketball," which won the Academy Award for best animated short film in 2018.
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Bryant, who retired from playing professional basketball in 2016, won an Oscar for best animated short for "Dear Basketball," which was based on a poem he wrote.
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He paid tribute to the first, Kobe Bryant, who in 2018 won for best animated short for "Dear Basketball," which was based on a poem he wrote.
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Bryant developed his own "Sesame Street"-inspired show called "Musecage," and then made an animated short documentary called "Dear Basketball," that took home the Oscar in 2018.
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Several filmmaker winners were, too: Alfonso Cuarón (best director and cinematography, for "Roma") led a list that included winners for documentary feature, animated feature and animated short.
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John Mulaney & Awkwafina Did Not Amuse Spike Lee The pair introduced the star-studded category, Best Animated Short Film, and reminded us why we love them so much.
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Kobe won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short for "Dear Basketball" -- which was based off a retirement letter he published on The Players' Tribune back in 2015.
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They say school is where kids' love of learning goes to die, a process we begin to watch firsthand in an award-winning 3D-animated short called Alike.
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Over the course of the film, the ideas that will become his CGI animated short Boro the Caterpillar and How Do You Live begin to bud and blossom.
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Click here to view original GIFIf the internet is where you go for a quick pick-me-up, this animated short film by Parallel Studio isn't for you.
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Blizzard Entertainment revealed a new Overwatch animated short at Gamescom today, digging into the backstory of the hero Mei, who found herself stranded in an Antarctic science facility.
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Disney hauled in four Oscar wins on Sunday, taking home trophies for costume design and production design as well as the prize for animated short and original score.
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The show, which has won 32 Emmy awards and was nominated for an Oscar in the animated short category in 2012, often playfully and poignantly satirizes American culture.
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The movie, an animated short called Alex in Wonderland, showed a delightful little character, Alex, traipsing through a flower-filled forest and catching some sun on the beach.
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Related: Watch CGI Fish Swim Around a Virtual Aquarium Indiana Jones Meets 'Akira' in a Wordless Animated Short This Short Film Portrays Long Distance Relationships of the Future
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The 2018 Academy Award–nominated animated short films are currently playing at IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue, West Village, Manhattan), as well as in select theaters around the country.
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The nominees in Best Documentary Short, Best Animated Short, and Best Live Action Short will be shown as three separate events, and will take place in 500 theaters worldwide.
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If you need a refresher, the animated short, created by Jason Steele and originally uploaded to Newgrounds, features the adventures of two bubbly unicorns and their grumpier friend, Charlie.
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Related: Animation Guru PES Returns With "Swan Song" Stop-Motion Adorably Spooky Stop-Motion Animation Explores Life After Debt This Animated Short Is Like Living in a Skate Zine
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Bryant, who retired from the N.B.A. in 2016, was involved in turning a poem he wrote into a film, "Dear Basketball," that won the prize for best animated short.
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Their first animated short was "The Ornament of the Heart in Love" (282), about two lovers, both ballet dancers, and a morphing ornament between them that represents their emotions.
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Arnold and his mother were invited to attend as the guests of director Matthew A. Cherry, who won the award for Best Animated Short Film for Hair Love tonight.
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Pacific Islander Taika Waititi, who wrote the script for "Jojo Rabbit," and "Hair Love" animated short creator Matthew A. Cherry, an African American, received Oscar nods along with Erivo.
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But there is one small-but-mighty victory that stands as a beacon of light amid so much controversy: the nomination of Hair Love for Best Animated Short Film.
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"I'm so excited to start writing more adventures in my diaries, and animated, short installments represent the perfect format to bring these to life," Cohen said in a statement.
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It does, however, stand to compete for one in the animated short film category, thanks to its recent win of the jury prize for animation at the Vienna Shorts Festival.
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So maybe it's time for a new analogy, which is precisely what filmmaker Ben Sharony and PokeGravy Studios have done in A.N.N., an animated short, which they created for us.
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Related: Here's a Powerful Tribute to Studio Ghibli's Badass Heroines A Peek Inside the Essential 'Cartoonists Of Color' Database A Stark Animated Short Sheds Light on Trans Discrimination in Argentina
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A 214-second trailer for the animated short film In A Heartbeat has social media users buzzing, particularly for its brief but beautiful portrayal of young love between two boys.
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According to Business Wire, Chipotle Mexican Grill just came out with a brand-new, online memory game based on "A Love Story," the animated short film the company released this summer.
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What it won: Animated Short Film How to watch it: Bao is available to digitally rent on Google Play and YouTube, or on iTunes as part of the nominated shorts package.
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Nabisco has partnered with Disney to announce a brand-new, limited-edition Oreo to celebrate nine decades since the character first debuted as Steamboat Willie in an animated short in 1928.
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A solemn white-collar worker looking to add a little excitement to his monotonous middle-aged existence stumbles upon a sadistic parallel universe in illustrator Cornelius Joksch's animated short film, Adultland.
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In May, the Kickstarter-funded romantic animated short about two boys falling in love was just a 25-second trailer, but now we're lucky enough to finally have the whole thing.
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In the animated short, called "Alive," we learn Widowmaker's backstory — without giving too much away, it seems she has a thing for spiders and she's all about living for the kill.
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But a really sweet animated short published to Vimeo last month makes the argument that there's something very special about going second when your older sibling is the one up first.
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It is currently shortlisted as an Oscar contender for best animated short and has a shot at making the final five nominees when the Academy announces their picks on January 23.
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Related: Ari Marcopoulos on Death, Zines, and Decades Documenting New York City Skateboarding This Animated Short Is Like Living in a Skate Zine You Can Thrash This Pop Art Skate Park
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A snake, a boar, and a hare get into a hairy situation in a new animated short by a group of students graduating from the Supinfocom animation school in Arles, France.
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Their film won the Annie Award, the animation industry's most prestigious prize, for best short film of 2017, and is considered a likely favorite for the Academy Award for animated short.
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When Bryant penned "Dear Basketball," the poem that became the basis for his Oscar-winning animated short, he told us he was ready to move on and we believed him. Why?
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In 2015, he announced his impending retirement in a poem titled "Dear Basketball," and later won an Academy Award for an animated short film created around his reading of the poem.
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Handpainted with watercolors, an emotive seven-minute animated short titled El Empleo ("The Employment") bizarrely captures contemporary notions of productivity through the life of one man on his way to work.
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To bring attention to the discrimination and stress plus-size people face when flying, London-based activist and artist Stacy Bias has created a new animated short film called Flying While Fat.
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Related: A Teenager Kicks His "Coke Habit" in a Striking Animated Short Pour One Out for Our Favorite Enamel Pin of the Week Unpublished Andy Warhol Polaroids Released for David Hockney's Birthday
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The five films nominated for this year's Academy Award for the best animated short film use a range of animation and storytelling styles to shuttle characters and viewers across time and space.
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In this computer-animated short — Pixar's contribution to a category in which it is a perennial nominee — a sandpiper is born on a beach and must confront its fear of the ocean.
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He was seen growing up there along with other human and gorilla test subjects to study the effect of long-term life in space in flashbacks from the previous "Recall" animated short.
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Predicted Winner: Heroine(e) Animated Short Film Nominees Dear BasketballDirectors: Glen Keane and Kobe BryantThe Gist: After 20 years of playing basketball professionally, Kobe Bryant wrote a letter to his beloved sport.
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Next we pick a video (any video) that isn't a toy unboxing (a genre of kids content that is also wildly popular) we find an animated short of trucks flying into space.
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Related: If 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' Were Made by Werner Herzog... This Animated Short Perfectly Captures What It's Like to Fall Asleep in Class HP Lovecraft Comes to the World of Anime!
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Related: Talking to the Musical Masterminds Behind 'Adventure Time' Tender Animated Short Tells the Tale of a Girl, a Whale, and Courage Action Movies Trip on Acid in This Animated Music Video
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He won an Oscar in 2018 for an animated short film on his life, and was a largely beloved figure, though sexual assault charges in 2003 cast a shadow over his image.
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But his latest, which won best animated short at the Muestra Joven festival in 2016, is an Orwellian tale about a screaming dictator lording over identically dressed workers from drab, identical apartments.
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Apgar says he's always "been alert to the ways Disney and his signature creation have affected or intersected with our lives" since the famous mouse first appeared in the animated short Steamboat Willie.
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"We have a firm belief that representation matters deeply, especially in cartoons," Karen Rupert Toliver, producer of animated short winner "Hair Love" — about the beauty of black hair — said during her acceptance speech.
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A love story starring a family and their ever-present car, the film is up against Pixar's Piper and the Annecy Jury Award-winning short Blind Vaysha for the Best Animated Short award.
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In typical Pixar fashion, Incredibles 2 comes packaged with an animated short film: Bao, about a mom with empty nest syndrome who finds renewed purpose when one of her dumplings comes to life.
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Earlier this year, the short film won an Annie Award, one of the animation industry's highest honors, making it a front-runner for the Best Animated Short at the Academy Awards this Sunday.
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Or, it will be, with your help: H5, the commercial graphics studio behind subversive, Cannes-and-Oscar-winning (and all-around amazing) animated short film, Logorama, are trying to finish their new film.
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Since then he has designed his own line of toys, written and illustrated children's books, animated short films, illustrated covers for The New Yorker and majorly influenced the comic-book titan Chris Ware.
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Some "Nate" books have been adapted for television; one, "Nate the Great Goes Undercover" (1974), was made into an animated short that won an award at the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival.
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Most of the films nominated in the Oscars' Best Live Action Short, Animated Short, and Documentary Short categories are playing in select theaters and available for digital download through the Oscar Shorts program.
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Related: Meet the Artist Slicing Up Nude Pictures of Herself to Make Abstract Paintings An Interactive Flipbook Presents the Diversity of Trans Bodies A Stark Animated Short Sheds Light on Trans Discrimination in Argentina
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The touching animated short In a Heartbeat, which tells a charming story of teen love, has taken the internet by storm, garnering nearly 7 million views since it was uploaded to YouTube on Monday.
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Bias tells Mashable she created the animated short to amplify the often silenced voices of fat airline passengers, giving them the chance to unpack the challenges of fitting into spaces that physically exclude them.
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The animated short will release in five parts and comprise a short film with the same story as Jurassic World, and as a result combines it with another Chris Pratt classic: The Lego Movie.
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The animated short film LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape debuts this week in five installments on the Jurassic World YouTube channel, and today Mashable brings you an exclusive clip from the fourth episode.
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Last week Belew achieved one of his most profound career milestones when Piper, Pixar's short film that preceded last year's box-office hit Finding Dory, won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
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The animated short film LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape debuts this week in five installments on the Jurassic World YouTube channel, and today Mashable brings you an exclusive clip from the third episode.
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"World Of Tomorrow" has been grabbing the animation awards at a lengthy series of festivals, and if any animated short this year can nab the Oscar out of Pixar's waiting hands, this is it.
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Related: Ophelia's Tragic Sinking Act, Reimagined in Contemporary Animation A Teenager Kicks His "Coke Habit" in a Striking Animated Short 30 Whimsical GIFs Let You Explore Tokyo from the Comfort of Your Own Home
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Related: Meet the Artist Slicing Up Nude Pictures of Herself to Make Abstract Paintings An Interactive Flipbook Presents the Diversity of Trans Bodies A Stark Animated Short Sheds Light on Trans Discrimination in Argentina
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In the meantime, fans will have to be content with this recent fan adaptation, a striking, bloody animated short that adapts a monologue in the book, and draws on some of the story's ending.
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Faith and love are found and lost again in Wednesday with Goddard, a film from Tourist music video director and illustrator Nicolas Ménard and animated short film, music video, and interactive experience hub, Nexus.
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Related: Animator Who Apparently Takes His Job Really Seriously Gets Zoetrope Tattoo 'Cream' Is the Grotesque, Lactose-Filled Thriller You Didn't Know You Wanted This Animated Short Is Like Living in a Skate Zine
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Despite those many successes, he has never been nominated for an Oscar either, until this morning, when he was nominated for producing the animated short Dear Basketball, which he also wrote and starred in.
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The animated short film LEGO Jurassic World: The Indominus Escape debuts this week in five installments on the Jurassic World YouTube channel, and today Mashable brings you an exclusive clip from the second episode.
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A gritty VR sci-fi game might not have the light artistry of an animated short from Penrose or the similarly focused Oculus Story Studio, but it can be narratively complex in its own way.
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It was really in the last century, however — a period bookended by the first animated short film in 1908 and Pixar's success with computer animation with Toy Story from 1995 onward — that animation leapt forward.
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Had we not read the words "animated short" in the video description of Mister and Missus' Little Things, we'd have spent a whole lot more time shouting, "IS THIS REAL OR CGI???" than we did.
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The comic-relief snowman voiced by Josh Gad in the "Frozen" movies got his own wintry tale in this animated short, which also includes appearances from the rest of the full-length movies' main characters.
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Mendelson teamed with "Garfield" creator Jim Davis in the '80s to produce the first animated short featuring the grumpy cat ... and went on to help launch the "Garfield and Friends" series in the early '90s.
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Winner: Best Animated Short Film What it's about: Basketball star Kobe Bryant narrates the film, which is based on a letter he wrote to the Players' Tribune in 2015 announcing his retirement from the sport.
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If it had been, though, it might have looked a little like Au Lapin Agile, a new animated short by the renowned animation department of Paris's Gobelins L'École de L'Image (or Gobelins School of the Image).
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Brandon Oldenburg, who won his Best Animated Short Film Oscar in 2012 for The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, told BuzzFeed News he could easily see his category being pushed to the commercial break.
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Baobab Studios garnered major headlines last month when it was announced that their 6-minute VR animated short, "Invasion!" was going to be turned into a feature-length animated film by Hollywood production studio Roth Kirschenbaum.
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Little Things, a lovely animated short from creative agency Hugo and Marie's artistry division, Mister and Missus, reminded me of that time as a kid, where the real and dream worlds don't feel quite so disconnected.
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But Bryant was flourishing in retirement, entering the world of storytelling and winning an Academy Award by transforming a poem to announce his retirement into an animated short film ("Dear Basketball") that he wrote and narrated.
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YouTube Falls Hard for 'In a Heartbeat,' a Boy-Meets-Boy Story The animated short about a middle-school crush, created by two college students, has attracted millions of views just days after it was posted.
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Video: European Space Agency/YouTube Beginning with the spacecraft's launch from French Guiana in 2004 and ending with its death dive in September, the animated short brings the mission's complex maneuvers and breathtaking voyage to life.
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That's part of the reason NFL wide receiver-turned-movie director Matthew A. Cherry decided to create Hair Love, a Pixar-style animated short film about a Black father, Stephen, trying to do his daughter Zuri's hair.
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Shortly after he released the animated short for the controversial track, The Story Of O.J. In the song, Hov poignantly tells the story of O.J. Simpson, which ultimately unfolds into a broader discussion on race in America.
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Now, as Deadline reported today, the studio is getting its second feature from a woman director — from Domee Shi, director of the sensational Pixar animated short Bao, which debuted this year and ran ahead of Incredibles 2.
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The 40 year old — who won an Academy Award earlier this year for his work on the animated short film Dear Basketball — was set to participate in the Animation Is Film Festival this weekend in Los Angeles.
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Availability: In some theaters Nominated for: Animated Short This 143-minute, Kickstarter-backed autobiographical short film from Canadian graphic artist Robert Valley portrays his 25-year friendship with a self-destructive but charismatic figure known as Techno.
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Mr. Welchman, whose "Peter & the Wolf" won the Oscar for best animated short in 2008, fell in love not only with Ms. Kobiela but also with her project and persuaded her to make a full-length feature.
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Mr. Kwan's final school project was an animated short about an insomniac who undresses people while they sleep and does their laundry for them; Mr. Scheinert's starred a dead boy whose body is piloted by small tigers.
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Bryant, who was killed Sunday in a helicopter crash with eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, won in 2018 for Best Animated Short for "Dear Basketball," which was based on a poem he wrote.
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Digital artist Philat Matveev reflects on the world's origins through an animated short film that acts as a visual interpretation of the first 50 chapters of the Bible to recount the story of how the earth was created.
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At the end of the 11-minute video, the date was revealed... As if that wasn't enough hype, the team dropped an animated short film of all the different house sigils, overlaid with quotes from major Season 7 players.
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" – Tiffany Haddish 😭😭😭😭😭 — Ira Madison III (@ira) January 23, 73 After announcing the nominees for Best Animated Short Film and Best Live Action Short Film, Haddish quipped, "The last category proves that length doesn't matter!
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The dialogue and voice acting are as dry as a Mike Judge cartoon, and the animation, drawn by nine different artists, is varied and eclectic, like its own little animated short film collection built around one man's grand adventure.
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Other notable stars attending included Academy board member Laura Dern; ABC president Bob Iger; Kobe Bryant, who's nominated for Best Animated Short for Dear Basketball; Patton Oswalt and significant others, like Robbie's husband Tom Ackerley and Oswalt's wife Meredith.
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As detailed in a paper published today in ACS Nano, Don Ingber and Charles Reilly, the founding director and a staff microbiologist at the Wyss Institute, respectively, teamed up to create a scientific animated short film called The Beginning.
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In a animated short posted Thursday, the channel laid out the reasons why white dwarfs—which are the corpses of dead stars—are likely to be "humanity's last refuge" when the lights start to go out in the universe.
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Awards: Animated Short Hair Love was a record-breaking Kickstarter before it was a movie; after launching in 2017, the crowdfunded film drew contributions totaling than $300,000, the most raised to date on the platform for a short film.
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It's just 25 minutes long and debuted as a TV special in 1971, before going on to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short Subject (still the only TV special and the only Christmas Carol adaptation to manage such a feat).
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The emo drama kids were more than willing to come to the back of the room to watch Don Hertzfeldt's "Rejected" with me, which was released in 2000 and nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the Academy Awards in 2001.
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Related: This Animated Short Is Like Living in a Skate Zine This Snapchat Short Film Is Like a 'Black Mirror' Episode Directed by David Lynch A Curator Spent 9 Days Filming the Syrian Civil War From His Aleppo Apartment Window
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And because of their commitment to the animated short structure, all of the Hotel Transylvania movies can get away with very, very old jokes — like hiding a giant dog by putting him in a trench coat and a tiny hat.
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While the Sun has a lifetime of about ten billion years, scientists estimate that white dwarfs will shine for trillions of years, making them potentially "the last sources of light and energy in a dying universe," according to the animated short.
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While these works demonstrate obvious skill and wit, it's his 1971 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short, that first truly showcased how he approached the art on a level unlike any other animator.
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Some of the studio's best-known adaptations were Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," Ezra Jack Keats's "The Snowy Day" and William Steig's "Doctor De Soto," which was nominated for an Academy Award for best animated short in 1985.
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Donya Fiorentino -- who was Gary's 3rd wife and married to him for 4 years -- expressed frustration with the Academy Monday on the heels of her ex and Kobe walking away with golden statues ... Best Actor and Best Animated Short, respectively.
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After Lee gave an emotional interview to Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet, the tributes continued with former football player Matthew A. Cherry accepting the same award Bryant did in 2018 for Best Animated Short for his film, Hair Love.
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The Oscars for animated short film, documentary short and live-action short comprise one-eighth of the awards given on a traditional telecast, and it's here that most Oscar pools run into choppy waters and the show itself often founders.
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Amid the controversy over the all-white slate of acting nominees for this year's Oscars, "Sanjay's Super Team," a candidate for best animated short, embodies the kind of inclusive filmmaking that many critics say the motion picture academy should recognize more often.
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The app also hosts some of the best VR films available on a smartphone: Sundance and Tribeca favorite Notes on Blindness, Ethan Hawke's animated short Invasion, One Republic's heartwarming video for "Kids," and serene underwater documentaries The Click Effect and Valen's Reef.
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The pints, dubbed the Mickey Mouse Collection, represent the transformation of the character—originally named Steamboat Willie in an animated short that debuted in 1928—over the years, and each is studded with Mickey-shaped chunks that have their own distinct flavor.
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Oldman was awarded Best Actor for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Darkest Hour, while NBA star Bryant won an award for Best Animated Short for Dear Basketball, the film that was based on his 2015 poem of the same name.
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Notably, he became the first NBA player to win an Academy Award for his animated short, Dear Basketball, based off of the poem he wrote revealing his plans to retire (his Oscar sits next to the Emmy he also won, he says).
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The four-minute animated short only mentions the company's name once — in the opening title — and its only other tie to the chain comes in the appearance of some tacos and a heaping pile of guacamole near the end of the video.
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Kobe Bryant is now an Oscar winner: "Dear Basketball," which Mr. Bryant made with the former Disney animator Glen Keane, overcame questions about Mr. Bryant's past to win the trophy for best animated short — as some members of the audience exchanged incredulous looks.
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His song "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" became newly emblematic of his relationship to his home country; the Soviets had put his recording of the song over an animated short film about racism and labor exploitation in the American sugar industry.
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In the less prominent categories, nominees of color included "If Beale Street Could Talk" writer Barry Jenkins; "Black Panther" production designer Hannah Beachler — the first African-American ever nominated in her field; and Domee Shi, who directed the animated short "Bao" for Pixar.
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To see more of Fenna Rooijakkers' work, visit her website Related: We Talked To The Photographer Who Mashed Siblings Into Single Genetic Portraits Virtual Reality Film Installation Puts a Dissociative Twist on Awkward Family Dinner Animated SHort Explores Escaping a Father's Cycle of Hatred
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While audience voting determines a majority of the awards, a jury of professionals — this year it includes the directors Sofia Coppola and Gus Van Sant — decides on the best animated short and best live-action short, which then become eligible for Academy Award consideration.
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