'' Bear Story '' ( Spanish : '' Historia de un oso '' ) is a 2014 Chilean animated short film directed by Gabriel Osorio Vargas . The screenplay was co-written with Daniel Castro and the film was produced by Pato Escala Pierart . The story is inspired by the director 's grandfather , Leopoldo Osorio , who , after the Chilean coup d'état , was imprisoned for two years and then forced to live in exile for the duration of the dictatorship . The film was a critical success , winning the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film at the 88th Academy Awards . It is the first Chilean winner of an Academy Award and the first Latin American animation to win and/or get nominated for an Oscar . The film opens with a bear working on the parts of a mechanical diorama featuring a bear similar to himself , a female bear , and a child bear . Carrying the figures of the mother and child , he looks into an empty child 's room before having tea in his kitchen . Upon noticing the time , the bear puts the two figures into the diorama and cycles out to the village square where he sets up his diorama and announces his business by ringing a bell . A bear child notices him and , after receiving a coin from his father , runs to see the diorama
88th Academy Awards
88th Academy Awards
Bear Story