I chose "The Longest Daycare" as a winner for Best Animated Short. In it, Maggie Simpson is dropped off for daycare by her mother. She is probed and picked at and is decided to have an "average intelligence". Instead of being put with the children in the "gifted area" where they get to play fun games, paint pictures, and play instruments, she's placed in the "nothing special" area. There are discouraging signs all over the walls saying, "you have no future", and one very unfriendly child that kill butterflies for fun. Maggie then sees a caterpillar that she realizes she must protect from this mean boy. She places it on a plant so that it can undergo metamorphosis, and runs from the boy. It finally turns into a butterfly and just as she's throwing it out the window to be free, the boy closes the blinds on it. Maggie's mother picks her up from daycare and takes her to the car where she realizes the bow tie in her hair is actually the butterfly.
I believe it should win the award for Best Animated Short for several reasons. First of all, it had a good plot line that kept me interested. I got so into the film that when the butterfly was supposedly killed, I even gasped. I also believe that it should win because it had deeper meanings than just the story of the butterfly. It showed how children were placed into specific groups just by the judgement of a computer. The "more talented" children were placed in a "gifted area" where they were treated to toys and instruments and different things, whereas the "nothing special" children were told they had no hope for the future. This was proven unfair because even though Maggie was placed in the "nothing special" area, she managed to save the life of a butterfly. I also thought the animations themselves were good and the music throughout the whole thing was entertaining.
I believe it should win the award for Best Animated Short for several reasons. First of all, it had a good plot line that kept me interested. I got so into the film that when the butterfly was supposedly killed, I even gasped. I also believe that it should win because it had deeper meanings than just the story of the butterfly. It showed how children were placed into specific groups just by the judgement of a computer. The "more talented" children were placed in a "gifted area" where they were treated to toys and instruments and different things, whereas the "nothing special" children were told they had no hope for the future. This was proven unfair because even though Maggie was placed in the "nothing special" area, she managed to save the life of a butterfly. I also thought the animations themselves were good and the music throughout the whole thing was entertaining.