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...
You can see more details on the Animation, Documentary and Shorts Oscar Charts. The trailers for six of the shorts are after the jump
AYA (TRAILER)
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)