Kobe Bryant's Dear Basketball is up for “Best Animated Short” at the 2018 Academy Awards
Kobe Bryant nominated for Oscar for animated short film ‘Dear Basketball’
“Dear Basketball,” the film adaptation of the Lakers legend’s 2015 retirement letter published in The Players’ Tribune, was announced Tuesday as among this year’s Oscar nominees for “Best Animated Short Film.”
Bryant released the film at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in April, which was based around will the poem he wrote to announce his retirement titled, Dear Basketball. Bryant also narrates the short.
This is how Kobe reacted on Twitter when he was informed about the news.
Bryant released the film at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in April, which was based around will the poem he wrote to announce his retirement titled, Dear Basketball. Bryant also narrates the short.
This is how Kobe reacted on Twitter when he was informed about the news.
What?? This is beyond the realm of imagination. It means so much that the @TheAcademy deemed #DearBasketball worthy of contention. Thanks to the genius of @GlenKeanePrd & John Williams for taking my poem to this level. It's an honor to be on this team. #OscarNoms pic.twitter.com/M2joyk9D1V
— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) 23 gennaio 2018
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