Oscar 2008 Predictions: Best Short Films
Best Makeup
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
Of the three nominees, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End boasts the showiest example of movie makeup. For the record, the other two nominees are La Vie en Rose, in which gorgeous Marion Cotillard was transformed into plain Edith Piaf, and Norbit.
Best Documentary Short
Sari’s Mother, James Longley
The short film winners are hard to predict because they belong to a "special category" — only the relatively few who prove they have watched all nominated films can vote for the winner. Compounding matters, the shorts, like most foreign-language feature film nominees, aren’t easily available for viewing in the United States.
Now, James Longley’s documentary feature Iraq in Fragments was [...]
by Andre Soares | January 30, 2008
| Subscribe / Syndicate
Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Film Awards, Hugh Welchman, James Longley, Oscar Predictions, Philippe Pollet-Villard, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Sari's Mother, Suzie Templeton, The Mozart of Pickpockets
Oscar 2008 Shorts Screening in Los Angeles
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the 2007 Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories, on Tuesday, February 19, at 7 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The program will feature onstage discussions with the nominated filmmakers (subject to availability).
They are:
Animated Short Film
I Met the Walrus (top photo), Josh Raskin, director
Madame Tutli-Putli, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, directors
Meme les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven), Samuel Tourneux, director; Simon Vanesse, executive producer
My Love (Moya Lyubov), Alexander Petrov, director
Peter & the Wolf, Suzie Templeton, director; Hugh Welchman, producer
Live Action Short Film
At Night, Christian E. Christiansen, director; Louise Vesth, producer
Il Supplente (The Substitute), Andrea [...]
