The Mushroom Club
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The Mushroom Club is a 2005 documentary short subject
, directed by Steven Okazaki
.
The short film is about the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and its effects on the residents of that city sixty years later.
On January 31, 2006 it was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
. It lost to A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
.
Short subject
A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...
, directed by Steven Okazaki
Steven Okazaki
Steven Okazaki is an American filmmaker. He is Sansei Japanese American and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area...
.
The short film is about the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and its effects on the residents of that city sixty years later.
On January 31, 2006 it was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
. It lost to A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin is a 2005 documentary short subject about writer Norman Corwin. In addition to Corwin, the cast includes Robert Altman, Norman Lear, Walter Cronkite, Studs Terkel, and radio historians Timothy Troy and Norman Gilliland.On March 5, 2006 it won the...
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