Disney's The Little MatchgirlThe Envelope today offers a slideshow look at the 10 nominees in two of the lesser-known categories: live-action and animated short films. Come on, admit it: When you're filling in your picks for the Oscar pool, you do what I do in these obscure categories. You wait until Entertainment Weekly's Oscar predictions come out, a week before the show, and you go with their picks.
Well, good news: Magnolia Pictures is giving all 10 short films a limited release nationwide this weekend. They'll be at the Lagoon Cinema in Minneapolis and the Times Cinema in Milwaukee.
A few of the animated shorts will look familiar: No Time for Nuts stars Scrat, the acorn-hunting squirrel from the popular Ice Age films; there's the obligatory Pixar nominee, Lifted; and Disney's The Little Matchgirl marks the end of an animation era: It's the last Disney project to use the studio's animation system where hand drawings were digitally scanned for compositing and rendering.
If you're interested, there's a more in-depth look at the short-film nominees over at InContention.com.
Fox's No Time for Nuts (apparently the unrated version)
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