The Oscar Animation Shortlist

Five nominees will be selected from the 33 list places now announced – that is the current state of the Oscars. Two participants have already won an animago AWARD. Does that make them favourites? Judge for yourself…

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The “Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences” has published the list of animated and short films admitted for nomination. They are now contenders for the Acadamy Award for “Best Animated Short for 2010 Academy Awards”.

Here is the list, insofar as we found websites belonging to the makers:

Animated History of Poland (animago winner!), by Tomasz Bagiński, Poland

Loom (animago winner!), by Jan Bitzer, Ilija Brunck and Csaba Letayat, Germany

A Family Portrait, by Joseph Pierce, England

Angry Man, Director: Anita Killi, Norway

Barking Island, by Serge Avédikian, France

Coyote Falls, by Matthew O’Callaghan, USA

Danny Boy, by Marek Skrobecki, Poland/ Switzerland

Day and Night, by Teddy Newton, USA

Divers in the Rain, by Priit Pärn, Olga Pärn, Estonia

Lets Pollute, by Geefwee Boedoe, USA

Lipsett Diaries, by Theodore Ushev,Canada

Madagascar, carnet de voyage by Bastien Dubois, France

The Origin of Creatures, by Floris Kaayk, Holland

Sensology, by Michel Gagné, USA

Skylight, by David Baas,Canada

Stanley Pickle,by Victoria Mather, England

The American Dream, by Tad Lumpkin, Harold Uhl, USA

The Cow who wanted to be a Hamburger, by Bill Plympton,USA

The Gruffalo, by Jakob Schuh, Max Lang, England

The Incident at Tower 37, by Chris Perry, USA

The Krill is gone, by Jeffery Bost, USA

The Lost Thing, Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan, Australia

The Mouse that Soared, by Kyle T. Bell, USA

Le Silence Sous L’ecorce, by Joanna Lurie, France

Tick Tock Tale, by Dean Wellins, USA

To Swallow a Toad, by Jurgis Krasons, Latvia

Urs, by Moritz Mayerhofer,Germany

Wisdom Teeth by Don Hertzfeldt, USA

The Wonder Hostpital by Beomsik Shimbe, South Korea

Zero, by Chris Kezelos,Australia