Oscars to feature Canadian content
LOS ANGELES — Several Canadians have landed Oscar nominations.
The category for best animated short includes the Pixar production Bao by Toronto-raised Domee Shi.
Also on that list is Animal Behaviour by Vancouver’s David Fine and Alison Snowden, and Weekends by Canadian-born director Trevor Jimenez.
Meanwhile, the live action short film category has two finalists from Montreal — Jeremy Comte for Fauve and Marianne Farley for Marguerite.
Other Canadians up for the golden statuette this year include sound mixer Paul
Massey for Bohemian Rhapsody and set decorator Gordon Sim for Mary Poppins Returns.
Shi is the first woman to direct a Pixar short film.
The eight-minute Bao is the story of an older Chinese woman who gets another chance at motherhood when one of her steamed dumplings comes to life.
Fine and Snowden are a husband-and-wife filmmaking team who won an Oscar in 1994 for best animated short for Bob’s Birthday.
Animal Behaviour was produced at the National Film Board of Canada and gives a comedic look at animals in a group-therapy session.
Jimenez has been a story artist for more than 10 years who now works at Pixar.
His film Weekends is set in 1980s Toronto and features hand-drawn animations.