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A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon. Actress Reese Witherspoon introduced the animated feature category with an odd script: She told audiences that animation’s great power is to show children that “anything is possible.” The Academy has made something of a concerted effort this year to reposition the feature animation category as an exclusively-kid’s art form, even asking children to interview the nominated feature animation directors and producers. Netflix took home its first Oscar in the animated short category for the film If Anything Happens I Love You directed by Michael Govier...

Oscars 2021: Iceland's Gísli Darri Halldórsson on celebrating monotony through his nominated animated short Yes People Firstpost 3 hours ago Kusumita Das © Provided by Firstpost Oscars 2021: Iceland's Gísli Darri Halldórsson on celebrating monotony through his nominated animated short Yes People A building full of people, locked indoors, going on about their day, stuck in a loop of routine – sounds familiar? Scenes from the Oscar-nominated animated short, Yes People, have certainly hit close to home in a pandemic world. However, director Gísli Darri Halldórsson c...

'Mank,' 'Nomadland,' 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' Awards contenders including 'Mank,' 'Nomadland' and 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' are available to watch before the 93rd annual Academy Awards on Sunday. While the nominees for the 93rd annual Academy Awards were unveiled a month ago and the event is coming up on Sunday, there is still time to see some major titles you may have missed. Leading the nominees this year is  Mank, which received 10 nods including best picture, best director for David Fincher, best actor for Gary Oldman and best actress for Amanda Seyfried. Chloé Zhao's sweeping d...

Sound of Metal +10000   After winning the Golden Globe for Best Picture Drama as a -180 favorite, Nomadland has vaulted up the oddsboard to become a -600 favorite in Oscar odds to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.  The film stars Frances McDormand as a widow who travels across the United States after losing her job and meets people in similar struggling circumstances.  The movie has been universally acclaimed by film critics and seems like a runaway train to take the golden statue.   The competition in the Best Picture category for 2020 doesn’t seem as overwhelming as in years pas...

Yes-People. The Oscars’ glitter-gold light has shone favorably on indie animated shorts this year: several nominees in the category have an experimental bent and no affiliation to big studios. Take Yes-People, a passion project by Icelandic animator Halldórsson, which sketches the mundane lives of an apartment block’s inhabitants using just one word of dialogue: “já,” which can be (imperfectly) translated as “yes.” Across a succession of vignettes, a half-dozen characters go through the motions at home, school, and work; the infinite modulations of how they say “já” hint a...