All The Short Film Oscar Finalists. Plus Sally Hawkins!

With yesterday's announcement of the live action short film finalists we have our finalists in all three of those miniature categories. You can read more about all of them on their Oscar chart. It's exciting to see how many debut filmmakers or people who've never been recognized before are in the running. Some of them are about to have a life-changing experience. Take Shawn Christensen who won the 2012 Live Action Short Oscar for Curfew. He's just taken that all the way to his first feature which is an expansion of that. It's called Before I Disappear and it hits On Demand AND iTunes a week and some theatrical later I believe.

If the nominees don't have a life-changing moment -- it's hard to get a movie made period. Even if you've won awards -- they can at least have a glamorous one in the Dolby with all the movie stars.

As per usual in the live action short film category we have a handful of films about young children (always a favorite Oscar subject in foreign and short categories) but the one I'm most excited about is naturally the one that stars Mike Leigh regulars Sally Hawkins & Jim Broadbent. You can watch that in full right here. Hooray.

After this short trailers for five more of the shorts if you click to continue...

AYA (TRAILER)

BAGHDAD MESSI (TEASER)

BUTTERLAMP (EXCERPT)

MY FATHER'S TRUCK (TRAILER)

Xe tải của bố / My Father's Truck / O caminhão do meu pai_ TRAILER from Mauricio Osaki on Vimeo.

SLR (TRAILER)

SEE THE OSCAR CHART

Comments

[Pam]

Thanks for posting this. Wow, I watched The Phone Call (while half listening to a conference call, so I definitely want to see again). Both Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent are really two fine, outstanding actors. I will watch anything they're in!

[Paul Outlaw]

My favorite category! ;-)

[Mr. Goodbar]

Sally Hawkins never phones in.

[Paskalis Damar]

Will there be a new Curfew there? I will watch all of them for sure... just can't stand seeing Sally Hawkins there.
Cheers!
P