Watch: Oscar-winning short ‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore’ now online

very cool, i love how some of it is in english and some in french

definitely made me tear up. very deserving.

Well this made me teary!

I’d like to see a Kindle do that….

I, as an animation enthusiast, HATED this film.  Visually it did look
pretty sleek, there is no question there.  And I think it was
well-intended, the message is simply that reading is enriching and
essential to a decent life, and lord knows we all need that reminder
from time to time these days.  HOWEVER- this particular film was
virtually devoid of conflict, overly long, nauseatingly sappy and
shlocky, and overall, dull. 

It starts with a Wizard-of-Oz tornado opening, seemingly used simply to
showcase visual effects.  This deposits our droopy, characterless
protagonist into a gray landscape, and his precious book collection is
lost.  The metaphor here could well be that the world has become
illiterate, though it is difficult to see why.  He quickly (though not
quickly enough) plods along to a bright, colorful book depository loaded
with, yes, books with wings.  He assumes the role of caretaker to the
books, leading to a sort of slow-going montage of the rest of his life, a
lonely, uneventful, detached existence surrounded by the same books he
inherited.

The film has a disgustingly emotional conclusion in which he is whisked
away to the heavens by some of his books, and he passes the torch on to
another silent drone without character.  The music cascades as if we’ve
been treated to a second helping of Gone with the wind, but this is no
masterpiece, just a big sappy eye-roller.

I LOVE IT! I can have it shown in different languages in my classes! I would like to see soundtrack choices in different languages too!