evidence: La Maison en Petits Cubes (House of Small Cubes) won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film this Year. Fresh off the heels of the best acceptance speech ever (sorry Geo, the Man on Wire disappearing coin was good, so was Sean Penn’s sentiments on Prop 8, and the Heath Ledger win was moving, but this dude thanked his pencil, and the domo arigato mr.roboto made more sense after I watched the short film, all acceptance speeches from now on should handled by Japanese men): [...] I haven’t seen the other Academy Award Nominated Animated Short Films (save for Presto), but I can see why La Maison en Petits Cubes took home the Oscar. I don’t see any live action film coming close to touching the emotions that are illicited from this 11 minute short. This was a story only animation and cartoons could tell. After I was done watching, I once again was refreshed and inspired to move forward on my dream.