Pretty Clever Films Posted by Bennett O'Brian on February 8, 2014

The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film of the year was introduced in 1932, but the category was originally titled “Short Subject, Cartoon” and remained that way until 1972. The first cartoon to be so honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was Flowers and Trees;...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on March 2, 2013

For this Sunday I had two niches to fill. It’s still within 31 Days of Oscar, but also March marks the beginning of a focus on Disney films. So here’s a short that’s by Disney and won and Oscar. Not only that it’s in the National Film Registry, and was...   read more