The best six and a half minutes you'll spend today
Pixar's Paperman really is quite lovely.
A six-minute slice of love in the big city, it picked up the Academy Award for Best Animated Short at last night's Oscars ceremony.
You may have seen it already if you've managed to catch Wreck-It Ralph but if you haven't - grab yourself a coffee, take some time out of your day, and watch it here:
Described by one critic as 'perfection itself', it'ss the first animated short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios to win the Academy Award since It's Tough to Be a Bird in 1969.
A nice little treat from director John Kahrs - watch out for the nod to one of the all-time classics of children's cinema at 5:42.
The bad news, of course, is that Paperman's win denied Oscar glory to young Kerry filmmaker Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, from the village of Cromane near Killorglin.
The 26-year-old producer was nominated along with director Tim Reckart for the animated short Head Over Heels, made while both were studying at the National School of Film and Television in England.
So disappointment for Fodhla, but we're sure she had a great time at the 85th Academy Awards:
