Product Details

• Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Rúaidhrí Conroy, David Wilmot, Aisling O'Sullivan, Gary Lydon
• Directors: Anthony Lucas, Bill Plympton, John Canemaker, Martin McDonagh, Rob Pearlstein
• Writers: Anthony Lucas
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Magnolia
• DVD Release Date: July 25, 2006
• Run Time: 162 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FSMEDS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,704 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "A Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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2005 ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATED SHORTS - DVD Movie

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I highly recommend this DVD!, December 27, 2006

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Robert Reynolds "A veritable font of useless ... (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (DVD)

In what I truly hope will become an annual series, Magnolia Pictures has released a compilation DVD including three of the five Academy Award nominees for Short Animation (including the winner, The Son and the Moon) and all five of the nominees for Live-Action Short (obviously, this includes the winner, Six Shooter). The two animated shorts not included here are One Man Band, which Pixar has included on the DVD release of Cars, and 9, which, as I understand it, has been optioned for expansion as a feature and which I hope will be included at some future date on DVD, either as an extra to the feature or in some other context. It would probably serve very well as bait to draw audiences to the feature when it is released if the short is available for home viewing on DVD at the time.

There are two extra animated shorts, which were not nominated and were presumably included to flesh out and balance the comilation. They are The Fan and the Flower and Imago and they are two of the highlights of an exceptionally strong lineup. There were only two relatively weak shorts on here, one animated and one live-action and even those two are well worth watching.

The standouts, however, are clearly the two winning shorts, which both clearly stand out in fairly strong fields, though the second best animated short is a bit closer to The Son and the Moon. Since the full title is rather lengthy, I'll just refer to it as Jasper Morello, as the editorial review here gives the full title. Both animated shorts could have been the winner without a drop-off, as they're that good.

Six Shooter is exceptional and nothing else really comes all that close. All the shorts are enjoyable, but Six Shooter is incredible.

If you like good short films, then by all means, buy this DVD. I hope a similar DVD comes out next year.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Here are the titles, October 31, 2007

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J. Paulsonn (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (DVD)

Here are the titles:

Live Action
Ausreisser (The Runaway) - Ulrike Grote (German)
Cashback - Sean Ellis
The Last Farm - Runar Runarsson (Icelandic)
Our Time is Up - Rob Pearlstein
Six Shooter - Martin McDonagh - ACAD AWARD WINNER

Animated
Badgered - Sharon Colman
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation - John Canemaker - ACAD AWARD WINNER
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello - Anthony Lucas

Bonus Short Features
The Fan and the Flower - Bill Plympton
Imago - Cedric Babouche (French)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection!, October 29, 2010

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Jon - See all my reviews

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This review is from: A Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films (DVD)

I mainly bought this for the "Jasper Morello" animated short, but there's some nice surprises on here as well. Besides this compilation, I was only able to find "Jasper Morello" by itself for $25. & over. So, at $12. or so, this was a steal. There's other great material on here, but "Jasper" is worth the money alone! Grab it!!!