2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

All ten Oscar-nominated live action and animated short films in one place! Even better, the animated shorts are appropriate for children.

The live action shorts: AT NIGHT (Denmark), in which three young women share their problems while spending the holidays in a hospital cancer ward. IL SUPPLENTE (THE SUBSTITUTE) (Italy) in which the arrival of an unusual newcomer galvanizes the students in a high school classroom. LE MOZART DES PICKPOCKETS (THE MOZART OF PICKPOCKETS) (France), a comedy in which a pair of unlucky thieves find their fortunes have changed when they take in a deaf homeless boy. TANGHI ARGENTINI (Belgium), a comedy in which a man who must learn to dance the tango in two weeks asks an office colleague for help. THE TONTO WOMAN (U.K.), a drama in which cattle rustler meets a woman who is living in isolation after being held prisoner for eleven years by the Mojave Indians.

The nominated Animated Shorts: I MET THE WALRUS (Canada), a documentary: in 1969, fourteen-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room with his tape recorder and persuaded him to do an interview. MADAME TUTLI-PUTLI (Canada), a silent, claymation/CGI drama in which a timid woman boards a mysterious night train and has a series of frightening experiences. MEME LES PIGEONS VONT AU PARADIS (EVEN PIGEONS GO TO HEAVEN) (France), in which a priest tries to sell an old man a machine that he promises will transport him to heaven. MY LOVE (MOYA LYUBOV) (Russia), a drama set in nineteenth-century Russia: a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women. PETER & THE WOLF (U.K. & Poland), a silent drama in which a young boy and his animal friends face a hungry wolf in Prokofiev's classic musical piece.