TORONTO — Canadians dominated the best animated short category during Tuesday’s Oscar nominations, with three of the five films done by homegrown talent, who all know of each other and joke that they’ll venture to the Los Angeles celebrations in Canuck attire. Toronto-raised Domee Shi is also nominated for best animated short, along with Becky Neiman-Cobb, for the Pixar production “Bao.” Shi is the first female director to helm a Pixar short film. It’s the fourth animated-short Oscar nomination for Fine and Snowden, who both write, direct and animate. I said, ‘Hi, Bob,’ and he went, ‘How ya doin’?”‘Snowden had a more nerve-racking experience at their first Oscars. “I broke out in a rash.”Snowden and Fine met as students at Britain’s National Film & Television School, where they both graduated in 1984.

Source: National Post January 22, 2019 18:11 UTC