How One of History’s Biggest Explosions Inspired Oscar-Nominated Animated Short ‘The Flying Sailor’
thewrap.comalive. We’re attracted to these contrasts in all of our work — the humor, the sadness, life and death, profound and insignificant.”Forbis and Tilby — whose two previous animated shorts, “When the Day Breaks” and “Wild Life,” were also animated for Oscars — recently spoke to TheWrap via Zoom about returning to the Oscar race, making “The Flying Sailor” and the meaning of a lit cigarette. Congratulations on your third Oscar nomination.
You’ve got a pretty enviable track record going. You make a film, you get nominated.Amanda Forbis: Just like that! [Laughs]Wendy Tilby: It’s easy, really. [Laughs]How does it feel to be back in the Oscar fold?Forbis: Well, it feels good.
It’s hard to do a fine grained description of how it feels because it just feels good.Tilby: We make a film and we really don’t have expectations while we’re making it.
And this one, we thought it originally was going to be even shorter than it was. It just didn’t seem to us like it would be an Oscar kind of film at all.
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