Nominated for Best Animated Feature
Marcel the Shell (Jenny Slate) and his grandmother (Isabella Rossellini) live in a house that gets rented out as an AirBnB. One of the guests is a documentarian named Dean (Dean Fleisher Camp) who decides to film some shorts of his tiny host. Marcel and Nana used to have a much larger family but they were lost when one of the house's owners moved out, accidentally relocating them. With Dean's help, Marcel hopes to find the family he lost.
This is very cute but almost off-putting for me. It's skirting a very fine line. The animation is stop-motion mixed with live action and it's pretty seamless. It helps that Dean doesn't physically interact with Marcel nearly at all. The humor is a mix of low-brow and meta which didn't always work for me, but I could see it being a family film. I don't think it has much of a chance in this category but I'm always happy to see stop-motion being recognized.
The movie is only available in theaters right now but the shorts are on YouTube if you want to see those.
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