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Once Upon a Line

  • 20162016
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Once Upon a Line (2016)
AnimationShortComedy
A man leads a monotone, humdrum existence until he meets somebody.A man leads a monotone, humdrum existence until he meets somebody.A man leads a monotone, humdrum existence until he meets somebody.
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      • Alicja Jasina
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      One of the ten animated short films to be shortlisted for consideration in the 2017 Academy Awards nominations.
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      Featured in The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2017: Animation (2017)

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    Robbed of Not Just an Oscar Nom, But the Win
    This was on the 10-film Oscar shortlist and is one of three "Highly Commended" films that round out this year's theatrical program. In terms of innovative use of the medium, it's in a league of its own, and I thought it edged Disney's delightful PIPER, which doesn't push the envelope of animation an iota, as the best of the eight. I look for animated films to show us *something we've never seen before*, and ONCE UPON A LINE does that in a way that is transfixing and beautifully artful from start to end -- and yet is fundamentally simple. I suspect it didn't get the nomination because voters knew it was a student film. But that just makes it all the more remarkable.
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      • July 2016 (Cyprus)
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