Pixar's 'Sanjay's Super team' makes the top 10 in Oscar race for animated shortAuthor : AZIndia News Desk
Los Angeles, Nov 20(AZINS) Sanjay's Super Team, an animated short film by Indian-American Sanjay Patel, has been shortlisted with 9 other titles to advance in the voting process for the 88th Academy Awards.
Sixty pictures had originally qualified in the category before the list was pruned to 10.
Short Films and Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from the shortlist.
In Sanjay's Super Team, by Pixar Animation Studios, accomplished artist Sanjay Patel uses his own experience to tell the story of a young, first-generation Indian-American boy whose love for western pop culture comes into conflict with his father's traditions.
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Directed by Sanjay Patel and produced by Nicole Paradis Grindle, Sanjay's Super Team opens in theaters on 4th December 2015, in front of Disney Pixar's The Good Dinosaur.
Patel, an Indian-American of Gujarati origin, has used his own experiences to create the film.
Bear Story, Carface, If I Was God..., Love in the time of March Madness, My Home, An Object at Rest, Prologue, We Can't Live Without Cosmos, and World of Tomorrow are the other nine shortlisted titles.
The 88th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland.