{"id":5772,"date":"2017-12-13T15:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2017-12-13T15:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:18:32","slug":"10-live-action-shorts-advance-in-2017-oscar-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/10-live-action-shorts-advance-in-2017-oscar-race\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Live Action Shorts Advance In 2017 Oscar\u00ae Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/oscar_90.jpg?resize=400%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/oscar_90.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/oscar_90.jpg?resize=300%2C74&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 90th Academy Awards\u00ae.\u00a0 A record 165\u00a0pictures had originally qualified in the category.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cDeKalb Elementary,\u201d Reed Van Dyk, director (UCLA)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Eleven O\u2019Clock,\u201d Derin Seale, director (FINCH)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFacing Mecca,\u201d Jan-Eric Mack, director, and Jo\u00ebl Jent, producer (Dschoint Ventschr\u00a0Filmproduktion)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIcebox,\u201d Daniel Sawka, director, and Camille Cornuel, producer (Iceboxthefilmco)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLost Face,\u201d Sean Meehan, director, and Sam McGarry, producer (Soma Films)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMy Nephew Emmett,\u201d Kevin Wilson, Jr., director (New York University)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRise of a Star,\u201d James Bort, director, and Boris Mendza, producer (Fulldawa Films)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Silent Child,\u201d Chris Overton, director, and Rachel Shenton, writer (Slick Films)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWatu Wote\/All of Us,\u201d Katja Benrath, director (Hamburg Media School)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWitnesses,\u201d David Koch, director (Lux for Film, Diez Films and Paradoxal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting.<\/p>\n<p>Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. \u00a0Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in January.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The 90th Oscars\u00ae will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre\u00ae at Hollywood &amp; Highland Center\u00ae in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 6:30 p.m. ET\/3:30 p.m. PT.<br \/>\nThe Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 90th Academy Awards\u00ae.\u00a0 A record 165\u00a0pictures had originally qualified in the category. The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies: \u201cDeKalb Elementary,\u201d Reed Van&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/10-live-action-shorts-advance-in-2017-oscar-race\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 Live Action Shorts Advance In 2017 Oscar\u00ae Race<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-5772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","tag-oscars","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}