85th Academy Awards – 'Best Animated Short’

Unlike my success with guessing Live Action Shorts… I am 0 for 3 in the animated category… so… let’s try again.

For a complete look at eligibility and voting procedures, please take a look at last year’s post:  84^th Academy Awards – Best Animated Short.

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Nominations:

·         Adam and Dog

o   Minkyu Lee – 1^st nomination.

Synopsis: Adam, and a dog, in the Garden of Eden.

Lee won the Annie Award for Best Animated Short and was also nominated for an Annie Award this year for her work on Wreck-It-Ralph.

Film Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dr66BBEZAg

·         Fresh Guacamole

o    PES – 1^st nomination.

Synopsis: Transforming familiar objects into fresh guacamole.

Trailer: http://oscar.go.com/video/PL55164603/_m_VD55266367

·         Head Over Heels

o    Timothy Reckart – 1^st nomination.

o    Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly – 1^st nomination.

Synopsis: After many years of marriage, Walter and Madge have grown apart: he lives on the floor and she lives on the ceiling. When Walter tries to reignite their old romance, their equilibrium comes crashing down, and the couple that can't agree which way is up must find a way put their marriage back together.

Head Over Heels won 3 awards at the Anima Mundi Animation Festival and won the Austin Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Student Film at the Annie Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, and Warsaw International Film Festival.

Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3735529241/

·         The Simpsons: The Longest Daycare

o   David Silverman – 1^st nomination.

Synopsis: Maggie Simpson spends the day in the Ayn Rand School for Tots.

Silverman is by far the veteran in the field. He has been with The Simpsons since the beginning, having been credited with over 230 episodes. He has also directed three feature length animated films: Road to El Dorado, Monsters, Inc. (co-director), and The Simpsons Movie.

The Longest Daycare was also nominated for an Annie Award.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV-NRwLV2qU

·         Paperman

o   John Kahrs – 1^st nomination.

Synopsis: An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.

Kahrs is a Paxar vet. He has previously worked on A Bug’s Life, Toy story 2, Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Bolt, and Tangled.

Paperman was also nominated for the Annie Award.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YJh-vj6u1c

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Snubs:

Like Live Action Shorts, calculating snubs for this category is just not plausible or productive.

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Oscar Trends:

Being 0 for 3… I obviously can’t see any trends in this category.  But if I were a betting man, I would go with the film that won the Annie Award.

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Prediction: 

1.      Adam and Dog

2.     Head Over Heels

3.     Paperman

4.     The Longest Daycare

5.     Fresh Guacamole