The Oscar-Nominated Animated Short, 'Oktapodi'

Back in September, for no other reason than we found it to be very cool, we showed you the short film Oktapodi. It's from the French arts college, Gobelins, as the graduate project for Julien Bocabeille. He's already been working in Hollywood, most recently on the second Madagascar movie. We bring Oktapodi back up again because it has been nominated for the Best Animated Short Film Academy Award. The animated short is what I call a tiebreaker category, because usually if you have an Oscar pool or ballot, they only have the main awards plus one that most people wouldn't have a clue about. Sometimes, that's the animated short. Now this year, if you've seen Wall-E, you've already checked out Presto, the short film that preceded it in theaters, which is another nominee, and if you click play, you will have seen two-fifths of this category, which might give you more ammunition for your office Oscar predictions than that bitch Susan in accounting. Here's Oktapodi. Again. If we can round them all up between now and the Academy Awards on February 22nd, we'll let you see all the nominated shorts, live action and animated. And if we can't get them all, we'll show you whatever we do find.

Comments

[Lost Wilson]

Effing Susan beats me every damn year...

Grumble, Grumble, Grumble...

(plus, I'm tired of listening to her talk about how amazing Brad Pitt was in Benjamin Button. Enough already!).

This year, if I win, she has to throw her autographed copy of "Legends of the Fall" in the bulk shredder.

I can't wait.

[Lengthy Johnson]

In fact "Presto" is one of the best films running this year.

Says a lot about 2008.

[Dana P]

A correction to the posting above. The animated short 'Oktapodi' is the work of a six-person team of students from Gobelins. They are (in alphabetical order): Julien Bocabeille, Francois-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, and Emud Mokhberi.

[Andy Gahan]

Awesome work, I loved it :)