Jan 5, 2016

Don Hertzfeldt's “World of Tomorrow” Named Best Animated Short of 2015

In a survey of 20 international animation experts from 12 countries, Don Hertzfeldt's “World of Tomorrow” was named the best animated film of 2015. The results were announced by the Montreal-based film magazine 24 Images.

Hertzfeldt's “World of Tomorrow” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last January, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, and has since won awards at prestigious film and animation festivals including AFI Fest, Annecy, Fantoche, Ottawa, SWSW, Zagreb

The film has won awards at prestigious film and animation festivals such as AFI Fest, Annecy, Fantoche, Ottawa, SWSW and Zagreb.

In addition, of the ten films nominated for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Academy Award, animation experts chose only three: Don Hertzfeldt's “World of Tomorrow,” Claude Cloutier's “Car Face,” Constantin Bronzit's “Can't Live Without the Cosmos”.

A tally of films receiving three or more mentions in the survey is as follows:

World of Tomorrow, Don Hertzfeldt (USA)

Resome, Boris Labbé (France)

The Master (Isand), Riho Unt (Estonia) Teeth, Thom Browne, Daniel Gray, Hungary (Hungary=USA=UK)

Le Roi des aulnes (Erlking / Erlkönig), Georges Schwisgebel (Switzerland) Uncanny Valley, Paul Weninger (Austria-France)

Sonámbulo, Theodore Ushev (Canada)

Le Repas dominical / Sunday Lunch, Celine Devaux (France) Peripheria“ David Coquard-Dassault (France)

Autos portraits / Carface” Claude Cloutier (Canada) Mynarski Shoot Mortar / Mynarski Death Plummet, Matthew Rankin (Canada) The Pride of Strathmoor, Einar Baldovin (USA) Little People in Hats, Sarina Nihei (UK) Splinter Time, Lost (France, Netherlands, Belgium) I Can't Live Without the Cosmos, Konstantin Bronzit (Russia) Yul and the Snake, Gabrielle Harrel (France)

Edmond, Nina Ganz (UK) Ernie Biscuit, Adam Elliott (Australia) Guida, Rosana Urbes (Brazil) The House of the Unconscious, Pritt Tender (Estonia) My Dad, Marcus Armitage (UK) [23].