The Academy Celebrates: THE SHORTS Oscar Nominees – Video

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On Tuesday, The Academy hosted a reception featuring the 10 Oscar-nominated films in the Animated and Live-Action Short Film categories. The program showed all the nominated films in these categories.

Hosted by actor Jason Schwartzman, the evening featured the nominated filmmakers of the Animated Short and Live-Action Short categories. For the first time ever this year, all 6,000 voting members of the Academy were sent a DVD of the shorts on which to vote on. One hundred twenty-five pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The nominees for Animated Short Film are:

ADAM AND DOG
Minkyu Lee

FRESH GUACAMOLE
PES

HEAD OVER HEELS
Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly

MAGGIE SIMPSON IN “THE LONGEST DAYCARE”
David Silverman

PAPERMAN
John Kahrs

The nominees for Live Action Short Film are:

ASAD
Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura

BUZKASHI BOYS
Sam French and Ariel Nasr

CURFEW
Shawn Christensen

DEATH OF A SHADOW (DOOD VAN EEN SCHADUW)
Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele

HENRY
Yan England

An enthusiastic crowd listened in as Academy Governor Jon Bloom introduced the screening of this year’s Oscar nominated gems adding that “Shorts are in the midst of a genuine renaissance.” He turned the mic over to the evening’s special host Jason Schwartzman who delighted the audience with his love for all things short – “short stories, short songs, and short phone calls.”

Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24 at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide. For more information go to Oscar.com or download the official Oscars app.

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