Win Your Oscar Pool! – Part Three: The “Other” Awards

Win Your Oscar Pool! – Part Three: The “Other” Awards

For those of you who go to the best Oscar parties or enter the toughest prediction contests, you may have to pick from some of the categories filled with more obscure titles like “Best International Feature” or “Best Live Action Short Film.” I’ve got you. These are the categories where the films are almost always (but, as you will see, not always always) excluded from the feature film categories. They don’t necessarily go together except that they are the “other” categories. But either you need to know them to make your picks or you need to know that I really do know what I’m talking about. Either way, here we go. I’ll do these in order from the most likely for you to have seen them to, “Why do they have a category for these?”

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The Top 10 Films of 2022 – #4 – “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”

The Top 10 Films of 2022 – #4 – “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”

Back in 2010, real life couple (at the time) Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate put together a stop-motion animated video for a friend’s comedy show in around 48 hours with pieces found at a nearby bodega. Seeing the heartwarming reaction of the cynical hipster crowd, they released it only, and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On became a viral hit. A whopping 12 years later, a movie version they always wanted to make but couldn’t find the right project wound up at indie distributor A24, who let them make the quiet, sincere movie they wanted. Thankfully. Because Marcel the Shell with Shoes On goes way beyond a cute, funny animated gag reel to become one of 2022’s most emotionally beautiful films. Really.

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