Film awards like the Oscars and the Golden Globes tend to segregate animated films from live-action films, but this ghettoizing of animation doesn’t always happen at film festivals. At the Sundance Film Festival, for example, all the shorts (animation, live-action and documentaries) are allowed to compete for a single grand jury prize. And what happens when animation is allowed to sit at the big-boy table?
It wins, of course.