This year’s Oscar nominated animated short films are:
“Bear Story” – a unique tale of bears
“Prologue” – an adult, hand-drawn tale of warriors
“Sanjay’s Super Team” – the Pixar nominee about a boy, his favorite TV show and his culture
“We Can’t Live Without Cosmos” – two lifelong friends become Cosmonauts
“World of Tomorrow” – a stirring look at the future of society
The Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films are presented every year in select theaters around the country thanks to The Academy and Shorts International. The nominated Live-Action and Documentary short films are also shown in their own presentations in select theaters. To find out if the Shorts are playing near you, visit Shorts.TV. This is a great way to check-out more Oscar nominees and to help fill-out your ballots to win your Oscar Pools!
Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic in 2006 at the age of 7. To date, Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases and, in total, has seen more than 1,500 films. In 2010, Jackson became the youngest person to win a NY Emmy Award, for his on-air movie reviews on Time Warner TV station, Capital News 9. And in 2011, Jackson was inducted into the Broadcast Film Critics Association as their youngest member. The BFCA’s annual Critics Choice Awards is one of the industry’s most recognized and prestigious awards shows. Jackson is also a member of SAG-AFTRA and votes annually for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Currently, Jackson can be heard every Friday morning on WGNA-FM and his reviews are also posted on his website, YouTube channel and Cultjer.com. He is also a contributor to AnimationScoop.com, run by animation historian Jerry Beck. And Jackson hosts the weekly internet pop culture news show “LCJ LIVE”, along with “The LCJ Q&A Podcast”, on which he interviews celebrities and filmmakers.