10 shorts to compete for Oscar nominations

AMPAS has announced the 10 animated short films that will compete for Oscar nominations. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category. The shorts shortlist follows:

Štai ir dešimt laimingųjų trumpo metražo animacinių filmų, kurie varžysis dėl prestižinės Oskarų statulėlės.

• 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)