75th Annual Academy Awards Short Films [DVD]

This is an amazing collection of the award winning and nominated films from the 75th Academy Awards presentation. All of the independant shorts, animation shorts and documentaires all on one disc.It gives you a perspective on how good all the film were and their corresponding competition. In the aniamtion catagory alone - it was amazing what they have to offer - how good the stories are despite their short length. These were all the winners and nominees for the year 2003.You can check the Amazon listing for the specific titles of each and lengths and where they are from - but know that you are getting a really good value and seeing what lead up to the winning film in each of their repsective catagories.Extremely entertaining for everyone in the whole family and educational for everyone who watches these. Emotional, funny, powerful, strange, unique and amazing! 3-26-09

I finally found time to view this collection of delightful films after having bought it nearly a year ago. I enjoyed the entire group, although I found the live-action shorts to be the most entertaining AND thought-provoking.I don't agree with the choice of the eventual winner of Best Animated Short Film, The ChubbChubbs. It was cute and clever with a twist, but I think several others are better. My favorite is the Polish release, The Cathedral, with its spooky, gothic, Lovecraftian imagery. Second best was the Japanese Atama Yama, about a man described as a miser who has a compulsion to save everything which might later prove useful. His favorite food is the cherry, because they are free. Watch what happens when he eats the cherry pit so as not to waste it! Das Rad, the German entry, provides an imaginative view of humanity as seen from a rock's perspective and Mike's New Car is just merely cute.It is much harder to choose the best of the Live Action Short Films. After mulling them over, I'll have to stick with the Academy's choice, although all four of them have some claim to the title "best". The winner is a very contemporary story set in Denmark that takes on a LOT of issues in a short time and deals with them in a way that has the viewer nodding in recognition. Though a bureaucratic/Eurocratic mix-up, the unemployed Lars Hansen becomes Pakistani immigrant El Hassan and is commanded by letter that he must take Danish lessons. When he tries to have the mistake corrected, he is given the runaround in a way that nearly everyone who has dealt with bureaucracy can identify with.The story becomes a comedy of errors in which issues germane to life in Denmark today (as well as in most other First World countries) are dealt with: immigration, political correctness, widespread resentment of the PC culture, the inanities of an obtuse bureaucracy, and to sweeten it up, love. You'll have to see it for the surprise comic ending.Right on This Charming Man's tail nips Inja, ostensibly the story of a dog, but really a story of relations between the races in South Africa and how a white farmer's method of training his dog to recognize him as its boss comes back to bite him in the arse at a crucial time. Great scenery and the human factor make this one a must-see.The French entry, I'll Wait For the Next One is brief, clever, and emotionally brutal. The acting is first-rate. The other film, Gridlock, is a Flemish-Belgian entry about a harried businessman caught in traffic who decides to call his wife to let her know he will be home late. What happens next is the stuff of nightmares.If you enjoy cinema, and particularly if you enjoy the intelligent and the unusual, then consider this DVD to have been compiled just for you. I highly recommend it!

I truly enjoyed watching all the Short films. The Dvd has two main sections. Best live Action Short films & Best Animated Short Films. The winner film 'This Charming Man' is clearly a winner from Denmark! The films is quite Charming & very well Acted. There are three other films which are equally good. I enjoyed the Australian film 'Dog' very much. The Screenplay is Awesome. The next film which holds you is "I'll wait for the next one" from Belgium. The dialogues are very well written.The Animation Films are also very engaging. the winner 'The ChubbChubbs' is fantastic! Other film I liked was a Polish Film 'The Cathedral'. It was very absorbing. The background Score was very haunting.The only thing I felt was a let down was the Quantity of films. There would have been few more nominated films in the DVD, it would have been a much more exciting experience alltogether!Also there is a good Information in the extra feature regarding Submission of Short Films to Oscar Academy.Overall a Good Compilation of beautiful World-class Short Films!

Good short films, but worth it for ChubbChubbs alone. Love to have friends watch for the surprise ending.

Some really fine shorts here.Animated -- I liked the Chubb Chubbs (which won). And I thought it was clearly NOT the best of the nominees. I think that The Rocks, a German short, well, rocks. Excellent. Mike's New Car - amusing. Crystal does excellent voiceover work. The Cathedral -- visually interesting. Atama Yama -- I didn't like it too much the first time I watched it, but I have acquired a taste for it.Live Action -- Again, I didn't agree with the pick for the Award. I thought Ingar (the Dog), an Aussie film about South Africa, was excellent. But I liked all of the nominated shorts. Selections from France, Germany, the Netherlands.Very entertaining.

The Chubb Chubbs is one of the best cartoons ever.This Charming Man, a Danish short movie is also very good.