The New York Times Rounds Up Some of the Best 2015 Short Animation Oscar Nominees

A. O. Scott, the film critic for the New York Times, rounds up and discusses the distinct styles and storytelling methods of some of the best 2015 short animation Oscar nominees, which includes such films as Me and My Moulton by Torill Kove, Feast by Disney Animation Studios, A Single Life by Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins and Marieke Blaauw, The Bigger Picture by Daisy Jacobs and The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi.

The animated shorts, as always, show what a vital and diverse form of filmmaking that animation is, in a way that we don’t always see with the big Hollywood family blockbusters. If you want to see where the state of the art is right now, you can look at these five movies and get a very strong sense of that.

Me and My Moulton by Torill Kove

Feast by Disney Animation Studios

A Single Life by Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins and Marieke Blaauw

The Bigger Picture by Daisy Jacobs

The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi.