AND THE 2011 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILM FINALISTS ARE...

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The short films that have made it through to the next round of voting are listed below. The final nominations will be announced on January 25th.


ANIMATION
The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger Bill Plympton, director (Bill Plympton Studio)
Coyote Falls Matthew O’Callaghan, director and Sam Register, executive producer (Warner Bros. Animation Inc.)
Day & Night Teddy Newton, director (Pixar Animation Studios)
The Gruffalo Jakob Schuh and Max Lang, directors (Magic Light Pictures)
Let’s Pollute Geefwee Boedoe, story-design-animation (Geefwee Boedoe)
The Lost Thing Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann, directors (Passion Pictures Australia)
Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) Bastien Dubois, director (Sacrebleu Productions)
Sensology Michel Gagne, director-producer (GAGNE International LLC)
The Silence Beneath the Bark Joanna Lurie, director (Lardux Films)
Urs Moritz Mayerhofer, director (Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg)


LIVE ACTION
Ana’s Playground Eric D. Howell, director (StoryForge, LLC)
The Confession Tanel Toom, director (National Film and Television School)
The Crush Michael Creagh, director (Purdy Pictures)
God of Love Luke Matheny, director (Luke Matheny)
Na Wewe Ivan Goldschmidt, director-producer (CUT!)
Seeds of the Fall Patrik Eklund, director, and Mathias Fjellstrom, producer (Direktorn & Fabrikorn)
Shoe Nick Kelly, director, and Seamus Byrne, producer (Zanita Films)
The Six Dollar Fifty Man Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland, directors (Sticky Pictures Ltd.)
Sma Barn, Stora Ord (Little Children, Big Words) Lisa James Larsson, director and Andreas Emanuelsson, producer (Bob Film Sweden AB)
Wish 143 Ian Barnes, director, and Samantha Waite, producer (Swing and Shift Films/Union Pictures)


DOCUMENTARY
Born Sweet (Cynthia Wade Productions)
Killing in the Name (Moxie Firecracker Films)
Living for 32 (Cuomo Cole Productions)
One Thousand Pictures: RFK’s Last Journey (Lichen Films)
Poster Girl (Portrayal Films)
Strangers No More (Simon & Goodman Picture Company)
Sun Come Up (Sun Come Up, LLC)
The Warriors of Qiugang (Thomas Lennon Films, Inc.)