Oscar-Nominated Shorts to Screen at AMPAS
by Andre Soares
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the program "Shorts!," featuring the ten Academy Award nominees in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories. The screening will be held on Tuesday, February 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Hosted by Academy Award-winning producer-director Taylor Hackford*, "Shorts!" will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability).
The screening films are:
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Short Film (Animated)
- The Danish Poet, Torill Kove, director (the tale of a Danish poet who travels to Norway to meet a celebrated writer)
- Lifted, Gary Rydstrom, director (alien abductor-in-training tries to get a sleeping farmer onto its spaceship)
- The Little Matchgirl (above), Roger Allers, director; Don Hahn, producer (Hans Christian Andersen’s sad tale of the little girl and her matches)
- Maestro, Geza M. Toth, director (a singing bird gets ready for its grand performance)
- No Time for Nuts, Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier, directors (while trying to bury a nut in the Ice Age, Scrat discovers a time machine)
Short Film (Live Action)
- Binta y la gran idea / Binta and the Great Idea, Javier Fesser, director; Luis Manso, producer (A seven-year-old African girl talks about her father, who has an idea he believes will change the world)
- Éramos Pocos / Too Few of Us (above), Borja Cobeaga, director (after his wife leaves him, Joaquín enlists his son to get the woman’s mother to help them keep house)
- Helmer & Son, Soren Pilmark, director; Kim Magnusson, executive producer (a man must go to a rest home to deal with his father, who has locked himself up inside an armoire)
- The Saviour, Peter Templeman, director; Stuart Parkyn, producer (a Mormon evangelist finds himself in love with a married woman)
- West Bank Story, Ari Sandel, director (I was expecting a tragic Palestinian-Israeli romance, but this is a musical comedy set in the falafel stands of the West Bank)
According to the Academy’s press release, free advance tickets to "Shorts!" are necessary to secure admission. Tickets will be available beginning February 1 at the Academy’s ticket office at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Free parking is provided at the garages located at 8920 and 9025 Wilshire Boulevard. There is a two ticket per person limit. For ticket order information, call (310) 247-3600, or visit www.oscars.org/events.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All seating is unreserved.
The Oscar ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 25 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.
* In 2004, Hackford received a best direction nod for best picture nominee Ray in 2004. He was also listed as one of the film’s producers. He won an Oscar for Teenage Father, voted the Best Short Film, Live Action of 1978.
Oscar Information at Oscar.com
Oscar Nominations 2007 - Article
Martin Scorsese: Top Oscar Directors for Actors - V
Fred Zinnemann: Top Oscar Directors for Actors - IV
George Cukor: Top Oscar Directors for Actors - III
Elia Kazan: Top Oscar Directors for Actors - II
William Wyler: Top Oscar Directors for Actors - I
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