2017 Oscar Nomination for Best Animated Short Film

This year Academy has been giving out the Best Animated Feature prize.

 Blind Vaysha – Theodore Ushev
Borrowed Time – Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
Pear Cider and Cigarettes – Robert Valley and Cara Speller
 Pearl – Patrick Osborne Piper – Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer

 Blind Vaysha (French:Vaysha l'aveugle) is a 2016 animated short by Theodore Ushev, produced by Marc Bertrand for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), with the participation of ARTE France. Based on a story by Georgi Gospodinov, the film tells story of a girl who sees past out of her left eye and the future from her right—and so is unable to live in the present. Montreal actress Caroline Dhavernas performed the narration for the film, in both its French and English-language versions. Blind Vaysha is rooted in nostalgia and fear. the National Film Board of Canada is represented here by Blind Vaysha, adapted by Bulgarian director Theodore Ushev from a short story by his friend Georgi Gospodinov.

 Borrowed Time is a 2016 American independent computer-animated western drama short film directed by Pixar artists Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj.A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come flooding back. Faced with his mistake once again, he must find the strength to carry on. Pear Cider and Cigarettes is a 2016 Canadian animated short documentary film directed by Robert Valley and produced by Cara Speller.

 Pear Cider and Cigarettes, the aforementioned naughty film, which at 35 minutes is also four times the length of any other nominee. Hard-living Techno Stypes has been Robert's best friend since childhood, and over the years, Robert has been amazed by Techno's ability to sabotage himself. When Techno is hospitalized in China and needs a liver transplant, Robert goes on a wild ride to get him home to Vancouver, where Techno dies after his body rejects the liver.

 Pearl is an American 2016 independent animated drama short film directed by Patrick Osborne. In 2017, it became the first VR film to be nominated for an Academy Award. Pearl is also the man behind Oscar-winning Disney short Feast. Characters constantly move so that you must follow them around the car (when someone runs out), through the sunroof (to catch a firefly), or out the back as the red and blue glow of a police car flickers. And as the vehicle ages, so too does Sara (Nicki Bluhm) and her Dad (Kelley Stoltz).

Pearl, the six-minute account of a father-daughter relationship through the years, all told within the confines of the car (named Pearl) that takes them on various cross-country adventures. Pearl is story of a girl and her dad as they cross the United States in an older model hatchback chasing their dreams. The music created by the father and daughter is the central narrator and the single perspective is viewed from the passenger seat of the car. Piper is a 2016 computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. Written and directed by Alan Barillaro, it was theatrically released alongside Pixar's Finding Dory on June 17, 2016. The short involves a hungry baby sandpiper learning to overcome her fear of water. The inspiration came from less than a mile away from Pixar Studios in Emeryville, California, where Barillaro, a veteran Pixar animator, would run alongside the shore and notice birds by the thousands fleeing from the water but returning between waves to eat.Pixar's Piper, directed by Alan Barillaro, which pairs photorealistic settings and adorable character design to depict a newborn bird's attempts to fend for himself as the grownups find food on a waveswept beach. Piper unwittingly remains to be blasted by the water. The trauma is too much to endure, the tiny bird staying hidden away until a clan of hermit crabs shows it that there’s nothing to fear.
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