Toronto’s Domee Shi on her big Oscar win, Pixar’s changing culture and her ‘nerdy girls’ speech GlobeArts
Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb celebrate after winning an Academy Award for their animated short Bao.With all due respect to director Spike Lee, the acceptance speech most fancied at this year’s Academy Awards was delivered by Domee Shi. The Chinese-Canadian animator, whose eight-minuteearned the Oscar for best animated short, delivered a succinct, empowering message to the marginalized and the shy.
With her directorial debut about a Chinese mother and a dumpling baby that comes to life, Shi became the first woman to helm a Pixar short. Moreover, the Toronto-set, which is loosely based on Shi’s life, was the first Pixar film made by an all-female writer/director/producer team. “The animated film world is pretty male-dominated, especially in the world of shorts,” Shi told The Globe and Mail after her groundbreaking win.
Asked about the imbroglio, Shi acknowledged the issue, but said Pixar is addressing it. “When Jones and McCormack were working here, it was definitely a different landscape,” said Shi, a storyboard artist and director at Pixar for nearly eight years now. “But I’m seeing a huge change. Over the last couple of years, it’s felt like a shift in culture and the stories and the leadership here.
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