The story of a high-spirited Scottish princess in Brave charmed the Academy voters to win the coveted golden statuette in the best animated feature film category while the love story of a young office worker won the best animated short film Oscar.
Directed by Mark Andrews, Brave defeated veteran Hollywood filmmaker Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie , Sam Fell and Chris Butler’s ParaNorman , Peter Lord’s The Pirates! Band of Misfits and Rich Moore’s Wreck-It Ralph.
The movie follows the story of Merida, a high-spirited Scottish princess who resists her mother’s efforts to transform her into a more ladylike young woman.
Faced with an arranged marriage she doesn’t want, Merida runs away into the forest, where she encounters a witch who teaches her a dangerous spell.
This is the second Academy Award nomination for Andrews as he was previously nominated for One Man Band in 2005.
On the other hand Paperman , is about a young man working in an office who desperately tries to attract the attention of a girl in the building across the street.
This is the first Academy Award nomination for director John Kahrs.