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The Bigger Picture
The Bigger Picture
	Film poster
Directed by	Daisy Jacobs
Written by	Jennifer Majka; Daisy Jacobs;
Produced by	Chris Hees
Starring	Anne Cunningham
Cinematography	Max Williams
Edited by	Vera Simmonds
Music by	Huw Bunford
Release date	21 May 2014 (Cannes);
Running time	8 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Bigger Picture is a 2014 British animated short film directed by Daisy Jacobs.^[1] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards.^[2]^[3] It won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation at the 68th British Academy Film Awards.^[4]

The film is about two sons who are ambivalent about taking care of their aging mother and was made by combining 2D painted art and life-size puppetry, animated in life-size sets.^[5]

Cast

Anne Cunningham as Mother
Christopher Nightingale as Nick
Alisdair Simpson as Richard

Awards and nominations

Award	Category	Recipients/Nominees	Result	Ref.
87th Academy Awards	Best Animated Short Film	Daisy Jacobs and Chris Hees	Nominated	^[3]
68th British Academy Film Awards	Best British Short Animation	Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs and Jennifer Majka	Won	^[6]
Annecy International Animated Film Festival	Best Graduation Film	Daisy Jacobs	Won	^[7]
Cannes Film Festival	Cinefondation Award	Daisy Jacobs	Nominated	^[8]
Edinburgh International Film Festival	Creative Innovation in a Short Film	Daisy Jacobs	Won	^[9]
Edinburgh International Film Festival	Best New British Animation	Daisy Jacobs	Nominated
Friss Hús Budapest International Short Film Festival	Best International Short Film	Daisy Jacobs	Won	^[10]
Hamptons International Film Festival	Golden Starfish Award	Daisy Jacobs	Nominated
Hiroshima International Animation Festival	Grand Prize	Daisy Jacobs	Won	^[11]

References

^ "The Bigger Picture on Omeleto". Omeleto. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
^ "The Bigger Picture: Short Film - Animated - Nominees". Oscars 2015 Official website. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Oscars 2015: Nominations list". BBC News. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
^ "Bafta Film Awards 2015: Winners". BBC News. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
^ "Stop Motion Blog". Dragonframe. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
^ "2015 BAFTA". Bafta.org. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
^ "Annecy 2014". Annecy.org. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
^ "THE BIGGER PICTURE". Festival de Cannes 2015 (International Film Festival). Retrieved 15 June 2015.
^ "2014 Award". Edinburgh International Film Festival. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
^ "Friss Hús short film festival winners awarded in Budapest!".
^ "International Animation Festival". Hiroanim.org. Retrieved 11 February 2015.