The winning Oscar went to my first choice short known as Paperman by John Kahrs.
This was who I wanted to win, and I'm so glad it did!The black and white, with a hint of red, short about love at first sight became an instant favorite right after I watched it. The story follows a man who meets a woman on a windy train platform and is shell shocked by her beauty. He later finds out that the key element to grasp her attention is through paper airplanes. This serendipitous tale through New York City leaves you with a large smile on your face!
Rating: 5/5
In 2nd goes to Fresh Guacamole by PES.
Claymation, claymation, claymation!!! What a wonderful short film filled to the brim of creativity.
Fresh Guacamole is about items from our lives turning into a batch of Guacamole. These items are not everyday items though. They include grenades, pool balls, and Monopoly pieces...just to name a few. Besides the creativity aspect, the vibrant colors stood out like nothing else to me. This isn't the only short that PES has done like in this way. This short is a follow up to the previous short titled Western Spaghetti.
Rating: 4/5
Fresh Guacamole is about items from our lives turning into a batch of Guacamole. These items are not everyday items though. They include grenades, pool balls, and Monopoly pieces...just to name a few. Besides the creativity aspect, the vibrant colors stood out like nothing else to me. This isn't the only short that PES has done like in this way. This short is a follow up to the previous short titled Western Spaghetti.
Rating: 4/5
Coming up in 3rd goes to Adam and Dog by Minkyu Lee.
I loved this short from beginning to end.
This is a tale about the first dog on Earth and Adam in the Garden of Eden. The timid pooch livens up once he and Adam meet, but then is left alone once Adam wants to get more acquainted to Eve. Following the banishment of the two humans from the Garden of Eden, the only animal that follows them is the dog. Reconciliation and trust then show us that a dog really is a man's best friend.
This is a tale about the first dog on Earth and Adam in the Garden of Eden. The timid pooch livens up once he and Adam meet, but then is left alone once Adam wants to get more acquainted to Eve. Following the banishment of the two humans from the Garden of Eden, the only animal that follows them is the dog. Reconciliation and trust then show us that a dog really is a man's best friend.
Rating: 4/5
4th goes to Head Over Heels by Timothy Reckart.
It was tough to follow at first and the claymation is somewhat on the creepy side, but it wasn't all that bad.
A story of stubborn love between an elderly couple, Head Over Heels is one bizarre story. The wife lives on the ceiling and the husband lives on the floor, yet their house is floating. Their love is distant and when the husband tries to reignite their relationship by fixing her ballet slippers, their world (or house for that matter) comes crashing down. Things are flipped when we find that the husband now lives on the ceiling and the wife lives on the floor. They have to figure out a way to put their marriage back together. The wife finds the refurbished slippers and is filled with warmth. She decides to hammer all of her other shoes on the ceiling to rekindle the love with her husband.
Rating 3.5/5
A story of stubborn love between an elderly couple, Head Over Heels is one bizarre story. The wife lives on the ceiling and the husband lives on the floor, yet their house is floating. Their love is distant and when the husband tries to reignite their relationship by fixing her ballet slippers, their world (or house for that matter) comes crashing down. Things are flipped when we find that the husband now lives on the ceiling and the wife lives on the floor. They have to figure out a way to put their marriage back together. The wife finds the refurbished slippers and is filled with warmth. She decides to hammer all of her other shoes on the ceiling to rekindle the love with her husband.
Rating 3.5/5
Rounding up the animated shorts in 5th goes to Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" by David Silverman.
Clearly this wasn't my favorite, but I don't think it was horrible. The major thing that differed from the other nominees is that everyone knows about The Simpsons, so they didn't need to develop who the character was unlike the other nominees. You are thrown into the short already knowing what should have been before Maggie going to daycare.
Maggie goes to daycare and goes through a test to see which part of the daycare she should be in. Being places in the "Nothing Special" room, she must deal with a brash child who like to kill butterflies. A caterpillar befriends Maggie, and remembering what the other child does to bugs, she runs away to keep the caterpillar safe. She finds herself in a chase with the other child to save the insect while it morphs into a butterfly in her hands. Trying to set the butterfly free, the other child kills it. Putting on an over dramatized painful scene, Maggie is then taken home by Marge. As you see Maggie in the car with her bow in her hair, it turns into the butterfly. Success! The butterfly is saved!
Rating: 3/5
With being a fan of minimal dialogue, these shorts were nothing but pure entertainment. Congratulations goes out to all of the nominees! An even bigger congratulations goes out to Paperman for taking the top seed in the category! Until next year...
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