For the First Time, a Video Game Trailer Is Eligible To Be Nominated For an Academy Award (eurogamer.net)

For the first time in 90-year Oscar history, a video game is eligible for an Academy Award, specifically the recently-released game Everything. From a report: The 11-minute trailer for philosophical pontificating simulator Everything is eligible for an Academy Award -- a first for a video game promotion, boasted game developer David OReilly. The marketing material in question is included under the Academy's category "[best] animated short film," which it became eligible for after winning the Jury Prize for animation at the VIS Vienna Shorts film festival. Everything's lengthy trailer focuses on the correlation between the universe's smallest, biggest, and most remote entities, all while being narrated by the late British philosopher Alan Watts.

Comments

I propose a different name

[freeze128]

How about: Tumble-bears

Doesn't deserve it

[kuzb]

If you want to see a trailer that does deserve nomination, you should look at the trailer for Crawl. Excellent voice acting and writing, and it describes the game really well.