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 [...]