Academy Award for Best Animated Short – Top Ten list announced
The whopping list of contenders for best animated short has been chopped down to a mere Ten. These will be subject to another round of voting before being whittled down for a third and final time, before the remaining three or five finalists go through to the lavish award ceremony presented by Family Guy;s Seth McFarlane on the 24th February 2013.
Out of the remaining films, you voted ‘Head over Heels’ by Timothy Reckart number one. Now that it has made it through to the next stage of the selection process, will it make it through to the final nominees? Out of the ten listed, two Brits remain; the aforementioned Head over Heels from the National Film and Television School, and ‘The Eagleman Stag’ by The Royal College of Arts Mikey Please – winner of the 2011 BAFTA.
You can check some of the links below to see external trailers or websites from the film.
The remaining ten:
- Adam and Dog by Minkyu Lee
- Combustible by Katsuhiro Otomo,
- Dripped by Léo Verrier
- The Eagleman Stag by Mikey Please
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Raul Garcia
- Fresh Guacamole by PES
- Head over Heels by Timothy Reckart
- Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare by David Silverman
- Paperman by John Kahrs
- Tram by Michaela Pavlátová