Ranking the Oscar nominated shorts: 2002-2011

Well, lets pause and take a break here. I've reviewed ten years worth of Oscar-nominated animated shorts, and since the history of this category can be broken down into eight ten-year blocks, we should pause and take a look back every ten years. And how would I look back? Well, I like making ranked lists, so I figure why not rank the films by how much I liked them? There have been a total of fifty nominated shorts, meaning that there was five nominees every year. It's the second time in a ten year stretch that has happened, and the first one was 2001-2010. I've seen 49 of the 50 nominees, so it's a good time to reflect on the shorts that I just saw.

And remember, this is solely by how much I liked the short. There are excellent films that rank low because it didn't click with me, and mediocre shorts that rank highly because I have terrible tastes.

NULL: Lorenzo (2004)
It's the film Disney refuses to release, a fact that still drives me absolutely nuts.

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Best Animated Short - 2007

2007! This was the year after I began watching all of the nominees (before that I had only focused on the winners), and so it was the first year where I had watched all of the nominees before the actual ceremony. I did this by attending the showing of the Oscar nominated animated shorts sponsored by Shorts HQ/Shorts International. I was actually able to find four of the five nominees before the event, but one of the nominees was nowhere to be found online, which led to my sister and me going into Washington DC. It was well worth it, as even the shorts that I had seen looked a lot more dazzling on the big screen.


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