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88th Oscars. Oscar Contenders of 2015 - For prediction, discussion, entertainment purposes only
THESE CHARTS WILL RETURN AFTER THE OSCAR NOMINATIONS
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Animated Feature The Nominees Are... |
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ANOMALISA |
BOY AND THE WORLD |
INSIDE OUT Awards |
SHAUN THE SHEEP THE MOVIE |
WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE |
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Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's odd adults-only dramedy is already a critical darling Awards |
Nothing but raves for this non-verbal toon from Brazil when it screens. |
Pixar returns to form with this inventive joyous and tearjerking film about the inner mind of an 11 year old girl.
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Aardman should never be underestimated and though box office was troubled, reviews were goodfor this silent comedy miaadventure |
Possibly the last feature from Studio Ghibli which gives it a kind of cache though it never got much attention in release |
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11 More Titles That Qualified |
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Will we see some of these foreign titles next year instead? |
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Animated Short |
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| Bear Story Gabriel Osorio (Punkrobot Animation Studio) |
Prologue Richard Williams (Animation Masterclass) |
Sanjay's Super Team Sanjay Patel (Pixar Animation Studios) |
We Can't Live Without Cosmos Konstantin Bronzit (Melnitsa Animation Studio) |
World of Tomorrow |
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11 minutes It would be the first film nominated in this category from Chile if it happens - this allegorical fable is of a bear ripped form his home for the circus is set during Pinochet's bloody regime |
? minutes This is a tease for a longer project by Williams (of Thief and the Cobbler fame) |
7 minutes Patel previously worked on Pixar movies and Björk's cartoon video "I Miss You"! This short will show before The Good Dinosaur |
16 minutes Russian astronauts. Bronzit was previously nom'ed in this category for Lavatory Lovestory |
16 minutes From the legendary Don Hertzfeldt. He's often too outre for them, though. |
| Five Finalists That Weren't Nominated | ||||
| An Object at Rest Seth Boyden (CalArts) My Home (Chez Moi) Phuong Mai Nguyen (Papy3D Productions) Love in the Time of March Madness Melissa Johnson & Robertino Zambrano (High Hip Productions and KAPWA Studioworks) Carface (Autos Portraits) Claude Cloutier (National Film Board of Canada) If I Was God... Cordell Barker (National Film Board of Canada) |
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Tier 3 - The Previous Long List (60 Titles) |
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The Apple Tree, Au Fil de l’Eau (On Flying Water), Between Times,German Shepherd, Juan y la Nube (Juan and the Cloud), Pineapple Calamari, Snowfall, Starlight, Storm Hits Jacket, Violet, Zoe, Castillo y el Armado, Grace Under Water, The Master, Still Born, Voodoo Love Story, The Looking Planet, Air-Mail (Messages dans l’Air), Amélia & Duarte ,The Ballad of the Homeless, Bucko the Bull, Dame Mit Hund, Driving,Edmond, The Loneliest Stoplight, Loop Ring Chop Drink, Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and the Rose, The Pride of Strathmoor, Soar, Stripy, Taking the Plunge, 9:30 am, The Sense of Touch, The Story of Percival Pilts, Zimbo, Load, Alex & Sylvia, The Beautiful Forest, Dissonance, Fink Forest Friends: The Invisible Honk, Waves ’98, The Final Passage The long-listers you can watch online in full: The long-listers from previous Oscar nominees or involving previous Oscar folk that didn't make the finals: Aria For a Cow, Taking Flight, Submarine Sandwich and (Otto), The long list was not published by the Academy but was provided by Cartoon Brew who sleuthed from qualifying festivals and followed screenings. |
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Documentary Feature The Nominees Are |
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| AMY Asif Kapadia & James Gay-Reese |
CARTEL LAND Matthew Heineman & Tom Yellin |
THE LOOK OF SILENCE Joshua Oppenheimr & Signe Byrge Sorensen |
WHAT HAPPENED MISS SIMONE? Liz garbus, Amy Hobby & Justin Wilkes |
WINTER ON FIRE: UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM Evgeny Afineevsky Den Tolmor |
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View on Netflix |
| The 10 Finalists That Were Not Nominated | ||||
| Best of Enemies Reviewed Meru, Listen to Me Marlon Reviewed (Gotham Nominee, IDA Nominee) The Hunting Ground, Where to Invade Next Reviewed, Best of Enemies, Going Clear, Listen to Me Marlon, He Named Me Malala, We Comes as Friends, 3 12/ Miutes Ten Bullets Heart of a Dog Gotham Nominee | ||||
| Tier 4 - Other Eligible Titles. 124 films were screened for the branch to choose finalists from Discuss here. | ||||
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Documentary Short Tier 1 - Predictions |
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| Body Team 12 (RYOT Films & Vulcan Productions) d. David Darg |
Chau - Beyond the Lines (Cynasty Films) d. Courtney Marsh |
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (Jet Black Iris America) d. Adam Benzine |
A Girl in the River - The Price of Forgiveness (SOC Films) d. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy |
Last Day of Freedom (Living Condition) d. Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman |
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13 minutes the team tasked with collecting the victims of Ebola in Liberia. This won the doc short prize at Tribeca |
34 minutes A disabled man dreams of becoming a fashion designer |
40 minutes Oscar wasn't able to honor the 566 minute classic Holocaust doc Shoah (1985). So will they want to honor this short about its director?
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40 minutes Pakistan's first Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (Saving Face, 2011) returns. This short is on a woman who survived an attempted "honor killing" |
32 minutes an animated memoir about a man who decides to stand by his brother who has committed a capital crime |
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| 50 Feet Frmo Syria, Minerita, My Enemy My Brother, Starting Point, The Testimony | ||||
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Live Action Short The Nominees Are...
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| Ave Maria Basil Khalil, director, and Eric Dupont, producer (Incognito Films) |
Day One Henry Hughes, director (American Film Institute) |
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut) Patrick Vollrath, director (Filmakademie Wien) |
Shok Jamie Donoughue, director (Eagle Eye Films) |
Stutterer Benjamin Cleary, director (Bare Golly Films) |
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15 minutes a comedy about nuns whose routine, including a vow of silence is interrupted by an Israeli family and a broken down car |
25 minutes an Afghan American serving as an interpreter to the military meets a bomb-maker's pregnant wife |
30 minutes A divorced father picks up his daughter for their biweekly visit. But something is wrong... |
21 minutes two young boys battles for survival with guns and soldiers in 1998 Kosovo (based on true events)
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12 minutes a speech impaired man |
| The Finalists who were not nominated are... | ||||
| Bad Hunter, Contrapelo (Against the Grain), Winter Light, Bis Gleich (Till Then), The Free Man (Zi You Ren) , |
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| Eligibility List | ||||
| The long list of 144 qualifying titles has eluded us | ||||