88th Academy Awards: The Shorts

The nominees are:

Best Animated Short Film
Bear Story
Director: Gabriel Osorio Vargas
Plot: An old bear relates the story of his life through a mechanical diorama.


Prologue
Director: Richard Williams
Plot: The depiction of a battle between Spartans and Athenians in ancient Greece.

Director's Oscar History: 1 previous win for Best Short Subject, Animated Film for A Christmas Carol (1972); 1 previous win for Best Effects, Visual Effects for Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988); and 1 Special Achievement Award for Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)


Sanjay's Super Team
Director: Sanjay Patel
Plot: A young boy daydreams while his father makes him participate in religious meditation.


We Can't Live Without Cosmos
Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Plot: Two lifelong friends train for the opportunity to go on a space mission.

Director's Oscar History: 1 previous nomination for Best Short Film, Animated for Lavatory Lovestory (2008)


World of Tomorrow
Director: Don Hertzfeld
Plot: A little girl takes a tour of her distant future.

Director's Oscar History: 1 previous nominated for Best Short Film, Animated for Rejected (2001)


Best Live Action Short Film
Ave Maria
Director: Basil Khalil
Plot: The routine of 5 nuns living in a convent on the West Bank is interrupted by the arrival of religious Israeli settlers when their car breaks down.


Day One
Director: Henry Hughes
Plot: A US Army interpreter in Afghanistan must deliver the baby of an enemy bomb-maker.


Everything Will Be Okay
Director: Patrick Vollrath
Plot: A young girl spends what is supposed to be a routine weekend with her father and gradually comes to suspect that something is wrong.


Shok
Director: Jamie Donoughue
Plot: Two friends struggle to survive during the Kosovo war.


Stutterer
Director: Benjamin Cleary
Plot: A typographer with a speech impediment must face his greatest fear.


Best Documentary, Short Subject
Body Team 12
Director: David Darg
Subject: Red Cross workers tasked with collecting the dead in Liberia during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.


Chau, Beyond the Lines
Director: Courtney Marsh
Subject: Chau, a teenager disabled by the effects of Agent Orange, who dreams of becoming an artist.


Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Director: Adam Benzine
Subject: The 12 year effort of director Claude Lanzmann to make his documentary Shoah.


A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Director: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Subject: A Pakistani woman who is the survivor of an attempted honor killing.


Last Day of Freedom
Director: Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman
Subject: A man realizes that his brother has committed a crime and struggles over his decision to call the police.