Last month Shaun Tan’s 15 minute animation, The Lost Thing, based on the children’s book of the same name, was Oscar nominated in the Animated Short Film category! Tim plays the part of the narrator and you can view some videos about the making of it here, including footage of Tim during a voice record session.
Maybe you’d like a chance to see it before the winners are announced at the awards ceremony, on the 27th February in Los Angeles. If so you have a couple of options:
If you live in or near London, the Curzon Cinema in Soho is screening the 2011 Oscar Nominated Shorts this weekend. The Animation Nominees are scheduled for midday on Saturday 26th February. Visit the Curzon website for details for online booking.
or
You can purchase the film to play on your Laptop or iPad or iPod or iPhone on iTunes, iDeal if you feel so iNclined…hmm (Priced at just at £1.49)
Talking of iTunes, ‘Ready For This? Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall’ is now available from iTunes in Australia here.
Aussies! You can still request ‘The Fence’ on Triple J” in the following ways:
online: www.abc.net.au/triplej/requests/makearequest/
twitter: @triplejsr
call: 1300 0555 36
txt: 1975 7 555 (25¢)
3 Comments
Kathryn on 28th of February 2011
Tim! iTunes Australia doesn’t let us buy it…
Ken Fries on 28th of February 2011
Congrats to Tim and all involved on winning the Oscar for The Lost Thing! Just purchased off iTunes, looking forward to watching soon on a plane to Seattle…not to go see Tim, unfortunately…
Emma W on 26th of February 2011
I went to the screening of the Oscar-nominated animated shorts today – they were all great but The Lost Thing was just fantastic. Wonderfully narrated by Tim, visually stunning, made me smile and brought a tear to my eye. Really hope it wins. You should all download it from iTunes!