Film Review: ‘2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation’

Peter Debruge, Variety
Fri, 02/24/2017 - 7:22pm

This year, there’s a switcheroo afoot in Oscar’s two animation categories: Michaël Dudok de Wit’s gorgeous desert-island fable “The Red Turtle” is a rare, snowflake-singular work of art, made possible after producers at Japan’s celebrated Studio Ghibli fell in love with the director’s 2001 Oscar-winning short “Fathers and Daughter” and approached the helmer about collaborating...

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