Thanks to AD reader Bryan for the heads up that Peter Debrudge posted over at Thompson on Hollywood an ad for the animated contender, $9.99:
As for its Oscar chances, the Academy just loves stop motion. Maybe it’s the fact that you can see the work (fingerprints and everything), as opposed to all those new-fangled CG films where the computer does the heavy lifting (I jest, of course, since $9.99 might also have been the budget for this modest indie). Still, every stop motion toon submitted since the category was introduced has gone on to be nominated (that would be The Corpse Bride and Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit), and the Academy awarded last year’s animated short award to Suzie Templeton’s Peter & the Wolf last year (which bodes well for Coraline and The Fantastic Mr. Fox going forward).