Oscar to Choose 3 to 5 of Ten Animated Short Finalists

"Let's Pollute"

The Academy have revealed the finalist list for Oscar's Best Animated Short category. Depending on how voting goes we'll see anywhere from three to five nominees. But the lucky names will be drawn from this entertaining list.

• The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger (Bill Plympton Studio)
• Coyote Falls (Warner Bros)
• Day & Night (Pixar)
• The Gruffalo (Magic Light Pictures)
• Let's Pollute (Geefwee Boedoe)
• The Lost Thing (Passion Pictures Australia)
• Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Sacrebleu Productions)
• Sensology (GAGNE International LLC)
• The Silence Beneath the Bark (Lardux Films)
• Urs (Filmakademie Baeden Wuerttemberg)

6 excerpts/ trailers and 4 full length finalists after the jump... See them for yourselves. Which will you root for? [Thanks to Movielicious for rounding these shorts up.]

Trailer for THE SILENCE BENEATH THE BARK

Teaser : Le silence sous l'écorce / The silence beneath the bark (2009) from joanna lurie on Vimeo.

Trailer for URS

Just an excerpt from MADAGASCAR ...unrelated to the American feature film! ;) The full short is 11 minutes long.

Excerpt from Bill Plympton's THE COW WHO WANTED TO BE A HAMBURGER. This one looks quite a bit different aesthetically than his usual films, which tend to look pencil sketchy but his shorts are often gut-bustingly funny. This is 6 minutes long at full length.

Brief excerpt for THE GRUFFALO. This is 1/2 an hour long at full length.

Trailer for THE LOST THING. 15 minute short.

Full Short COYOTE FALLS

Full Short DAY & NIGHT

Full Short LET'S POLLUTE

Full Short SENSOLOGY. 6 minutes. 

(Gorgeous abstract musical visualizations)

Your verdict?

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