A couple of truly daring visions spice up the expected fare in this year's crop of Academy-honored animated shorts — one of which would be as at home in an art gallery as in the theaters, which, pandemic be damned, will still showcase nominees as a big-screen event.
Each candidate has something to offer, including those non-nominees that have been added (as "highly recommended") to stretch the program's running time to feature length.
But this is the rare occasion in which (for the first time in a very long time) the Oscar could go to a film that really pushes the limits of the form.
This year's program starts in the 'toon wheelhouse, with cute animals: Madeline Sharafian's pen & ink-looking Burrow follows a rabbit who dreams of digging a.
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