AMPAS announced that 10 live-action short films remain in the race for the 88th Academy Awards. The films were selected by the academy’s short films and feature animation branch out of 144 submissions.
The 10 films are:
Ave Maria, Basil Khalil, director, and Eric Dupont, producer (Incognito Films)
Bad Hunter, Sahim Omar Kalifa, director, and Dries Phlypo, producer (A Private View)
Bis Gleich (Till Then), Philippe Brenninkmeyer, producer, and Tara Lynn Orr, writer (avenueROAD Films)
Contrapelo (Against the Grain), Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer, director, and Pin-Chun Liu, producer (Ochenta y Cinco Films)
Day One, Henry Hughes, director (American Film Institute)
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut), Patrick Vollrath, director (Filmakademie Wien)
The Free Man (Zi You Ren), Quah Boon-Lip, director (Taipei National University of the Arts)
Shok, Jamie Donoughue, director (Eagle Eye Films)
Stutterer, Benjamin Cleary, director (Bare Golly Films)
Winter Light, Julian Higgins, director, and Josh Pence, producer (Innerlight Films and Prelude Pictures)
