*Read my 2016 Oscar-nominated shorts coverage HERE and my 2017 coverage HERE. ANIMATED SHORT NOMINEES (from best to worst) Garden Party (Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Théophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon and Lucas Navarro; France) LOU (Dave Mullins; USA) While the animated short field looks relatively strong this year, these are the […]
*Read my 2016 Oscar-nominated shorts coverage HERE. ANIMATED SHORT NOMINEES (arranged from best to worst) 1. Piper (Alan Barillaro; USA) 2. Pear Cider and Cigarettes (Robert Valley; Canada) These are the only two films in either program that rise above the squishy middle, and they couldn’t be more […]
ANIMATED SHORT NOMINEES (from best to worst) World of Tomorrow (Don Herzfeldt; USA) We Can’t Live Without Cosmos (Konstantin Bronzit; Russia) I already raved about both of these films last October in my review of the 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows, so it’s no surprise that they’re […]
