A survey of 20 international animation experts from twelve countries has selected Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow as the best animated film of 2015. The results were published by the Montreal-based film publication 24 Images.
Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow premiered last January at Sundance, where it won the grand jury prize, and has since gone on to win prizes at top film and animation festivals including AFI Fest, Annecy, Fantoche, Ottawa, SWSW, and Zagreb.
It should be noted that just three films from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s 10-film Oscar shortlist also made the animation experts’ top choices: Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow, Claude Cloutier’s Carface, and Konstantin Bronzit’s We Can’t Live without Cosmos.
Here’s the tally of films that received three or more mentions in the survey:
World of Tomorrow, Don Hertzfeldt (USA)
Rhizome, Boris Labbé (France)
The Master (Isand), Riho Unt (Estonia)
Teeth, Tom Brown, Daniel Gray, Hungary (Hungary-USA-England)
Le Roi des aulnes (Erlking / Erlkönig), Georges Schwizgebel (Switzerland)
Uncanny Valley, Paul Wenninger (Austria-France)
Sonámbulo, Theodore Ushev (Canada)
Le Repas dominical / Sunday Lunch, Céline Devaux (France)
Peripheria, David Coquard-Dassault (France)
Autos Portraits / Carface, Claude Cloutier (Canada)
Mynarski chute mortelle / Mynarski Death Plummet, Matthew Rankin (Canada)
The Pride of Strathmoor, Einar Baldvin (USA)
Small People with Hats, Sarina Nihei (UK)
Splintertime, Rosto (France-Netherlands-Belgium)
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos, Konstantin Bronzit (Russia)
Yùl et le Serpent, Gabriel Harel (France)
Edmond, Nina Gantz (UK)
Ernie Biscuit, Adam Elliot (Australia)
Guida, Rosana Urbes (Brazil)
House of Unconsciousness (Alateadvuse maja), Pritt Tender (Estonia)
My Dad, Marcus Armitage (UK)
