Get Shorty: Predicting Oscar's Live Action Short Shortlist

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• curious | December 9, 2011 3:02 AMReply

  How do you know the list of live action shorts? What info are your pulling your predictions from?

• Brad Horvath | December 11, 2011 4:25 PM

  I wish I could say that I screened all of the eligible short films, but I haven't! I screened most of them, however.
  
  That said, I don't expect to be correct about more than a few titles (although I do think all of the films listed above are deserving and should be shortlisted).
  
  If your question is about how short films become eligible for Oscars, you should check out the Oscar website (but, basically, a film must have won a qualifying award at a competitive film festival, a Gold Medal award in the Academy's Student Academy Awards competition or have been publicly exhibited for paid admission in a commercial theater in LA).
  
  Do you have any predictions?

• Saba | December 6, 2011 7:04 PMReply

  Brad those 3 movies down there, you don't hope for them to be shortlisted or you don't expect or what is wrong with them?!;)
  Just Kidding. I'm the director of the wind. Hope I make it to the shortlist.
  Thanks for posting this.
  Best,
  Saba

• Brad Horvath | December 11, 2011 4:32 PM

  I hope you make the shortlist too (I love your film)! That list is in no particular order - and entirely off the top of my head. I originally tried to limit the number of films to ten, but I couldn't do it! Good luck!

• Brad Horvath | December 6, 2011 6:11 PMReply

  I just noticed that I mistakenly included The Eagleman Stag on this list. The Eagleman Stag is actually an animated short film which was on my list of the ten animated short films that I expected to be shortlisted. The live action short film I forgot to include on this list is West of the Moon (directed by Brent Bonacorso). Peter will make the correction in the post later!

• Danny Lacey | December 6, 2011 1:15 PMReply

  Thank you for sharing this info.
  
  I'm a writer, producer and director from Leeds UK and in 2012 I'll be taking on the most challenging project of my career so far. The target is to win an Oscar in 2013 in the short film category with my film 'P.I.'
  
  The unique aspect of my filmmaking journey is the way in which I'm sharing everything I'm going through as a filmmaker. Been doing this since 2009 on the website http://www.dannylaceyfilm.co.uk
  
  So, hopefully, one day in the near future I could see my project on the list above.
  
  Thanks
  
  Danny

• Brad Horvath | December 6, 2011 2:37 PM

  Thank you for your note, Danny! I look forward to seeing your project on the list, as well!