Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

I found it to be saccharine and uninspired. Every line felt like some platitude you would find written on a faux distressed wooden sign at HomeGoods.

I see the animated shorts every year and it’s consistently my least favorite one that wins. It’s also usually the one put up by the biggest studio that wins.

I loved Ice Merchants.

password4321 · 3 years ago

A Father and Son’s Daring Cliff Dive | Ice Merchants | The New Yorker Screening Room

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhj74ZjfaQ8

mattnewton · 3 years ago

Whew, I saw the animated shorts this year and I am rather surprised this won. The best I can say about it is that it clearly had the largest budget?

the_shivers · 3 years ago

Can't believe this won. Although I liked the art style, it was painfully mawkish. I was cringing at almost every line.

Maybe the other nominees were worse.

plantwallshoe · 3 years ago

I thought the group this year was actually one of the better ones I can remember, but this one was the worst of the lot.

mattnewton · 3 years ago

No, the nominees were great this year. I understand why my favorite, the coming of age teenager story “My Year of Dicks” didn’t win but I don’t understand how anyone watched Ice Merchants and then this one and concluded this was better animated or had a better story. The Ostrich one is also great.

Encrust6221 · 3 years ago

I am not sure I understand the significance of this, anyone care to explain?

recuter · 3 years ago

Amazon was the first streaming studio to win oscars about five years ago. Bezos incentivizes those employees with bonuses for emmys, oscars and other such awards.

Now Apple won one. Content production keeps users in the respective ecosystems and this is one of the KPIs.

prvc · 3 years ago

>Now Apple won one.

CODA won best picture last year.

markdown · 3 years ago

Is that one movie, or four?

INTPenis · 3 years ago

Click the link, it's one animated short film.

recuter · 3 years ago

Don't know about this year but last year the ratings were at about 10 million people (used to be 40+ million).

Thursday Night Football is 15+ million. Sunday Football 20+ million.