Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category:
- The Cat Piano, Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’s Republic of Animation)
- French Roast, Fabrice O. Joubert, director (Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films)
- Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, Nicky Phelan, director, and Darragh O’Connell, producer (Brown Bag Films)
- The Kinematograph, Tomek Baginski, director-producer (Platige Image)
- The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte), Javier Recio Gracia, director (Kandor Graphics and Green Moon)
- Logorama, Nicolas Schmerkin, producer (Autour de Minuit)
- A Matter of Loaf and Death, Nick Park, director (Aardman Animations Ltd.)
- Partly Cloudy, Peter Sohn, director (Pixar Animation Studios)
- Runaway, Cordell Barker, director (National Film Board of Canada)
- Variete, Roelof van den Bergh, director (il Luster Productions)
More clips from the shorts after the cut.
