Oscar 2007: “Shorts!” in New York City
Maestro by Geza M. Toth (top); West Bank Story by Ari Sandel (middle); Too Few of Us by Borja Cobeaga (bottom)
The New York City version of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ annual “Shorts!” program, featuring the year’s Oscar-nominated narrative short films, will be presented on Saturday, February 17, at 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Academy Theater.
The screenings will be hosted by none other than Robert Osborne, Hollywood Reporter columnist, Turner Classic Movies host, and official biographer of the Academy Awards.
The screening films are:
Short Film (Animated)
The Danish Poet, Torill Kove, director (a Danish poet travels to Norway to meet a celebrated writer)
Lifted, Gary Rydstrom, director (alien abductor-in-training tries to get a sleeping farmer onto [...]
by Andre Soares | February 2, 2007
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Oscar 2007: Nominated Shorts Screening
The Little Match Girl (top, © Disney Enterprises); West Bank Story (bottom)
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 producer-director Taylor Hackford, who won an Oscar for the 1978 live action short Teenage Father, "Shorts!" will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability).
The screening films are:
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 [...]
by Andre Soares | January 30, 2007
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Tags: 2007 Oscar, Academy Awards, Animation, Ari Sandel, Film Awards, Los Angeles Screenings, Shorts, The Danish Poet, The Little Matchgirl, West Bank Story
Oscar 2007: Best Documentary Short, Animated Short
Oscar 2007: Best Cinematography, Music
Achievement in makeup
Apocalypto (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Click (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
* Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) David Marti and Montse Ribe
Best documentary short subject
* The Blood of Yingzhou District
A Thomas Lennon Films Production
Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon
Recycled Life
An Iwerks/Glad Production
Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad
Rehearsing a Dream
A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Two Hands
A Crazy Boat Pictures Production
Nathaniel Kahn and Susan Rose Behr
Best animated short film
* The Danish Poet (National Film Board of Canada)
A Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production
Torill Kove
Lifted (Buena Vista)
A Pixar Animation Studios Production
Gary Rydstrom
The Little Matchgirl (Buena Vista)
A Walt Disney Pictures Production
Roger Allers and Don Hahn
Maestro (Szimplafilm)
A Kedd Production
Geza M. Toth
No [...]
by Andre Soares | January 23, 2007
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Tags: 2007 Oscar, Academy Awards, Ari Sandel, Ennio Morricone, Film Awards, Ruby Yang, Sherry Lansing, The Blood of Yingzhou District, The Danish Poet, West Bank Story
