28-02-2025
Oscars: Animated film featuring Brighton youth choir up for award
An East Sussex choir recorded the soundtrack to an animated short film which is up for an Oscar, having already won a Festival Youth Choir was approached in 2023 to record the soundtrack for the film Wander to Wonder, directed and composed respectively by Brighton-based pair Nina Grantz and Terence winning the best British short animation category at the Bafta Film Awards earlier this month, the film-makers could be taking home an Oscar this Dunn said it was "magical" to hear the soundtrack "come to life in the recording".
"[Choir co-founder] Juliette [Pochin] was incredible working with the choir to get the best from them," he to Wonder is a stop-motion short which focuses on three miniature children's TV characters who find themselves left alone in the studio after the show's originator passes features the voices of actors Toby Jones, Neil Salvage and Amanda Grantz said the choir, which has singers aged from 11-18, "elevated the film" in a way that she couldn't have ever to Wonder is up against four other contenders for best animated short at the Oscars, which take place in Los Angeles on Sunday.
