Charade (1984 film)

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| name = Charade

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| director = Jon Minnis

| producer = Jon Minnis
Michael Mills

| writer = Jon Minnis

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| starring = Jon Minnis

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| studio = Sheridan College

| distributor = Michael Mills Productions

| released = {{Film date|1984|04|10}}

| runtime = 5 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

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Charade is a 1984 Canadian animated film directed by Jon Minnis.[https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film488894.html FilmAffinity] The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 57th Academy Awards,"Montrealer strikes Oscar gold". Montreal Gazette, March 26, 1985. and the Genie Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 6th Genie Awards.Bruce Bailey, "Daniel Petrie's 'Bay Boy' harbors six Genie Awards". Montreal Gazette, March 22, 1985.

The film was animated by Minnis with Pantone markers on paper, during a single three-month summer term at Sheridan College.{{cite web|last=Nethery|first=David|title="Charade" by Jon Minnis |url=http://animationgradfilms.blogspot.com/2010/02/charade-by-jon-minnis.html|work=Animation Graduate Films|access-date=9 January 2011}}

Plot

In front of a witless audience, a talented but unlucky gentleman competes in a game of charades against a savant who puts no effort to it and yet the audience still gets his right.[https://archive.org/details/1985Charade 1985 Charade: Free Download, Borrow and Streaming: Internet Archive][https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/every-oscar-winner-for-animated-short-subject-ranked.html Every Oscar Winner for Animated Short Subject, Ranked - Vulture]

Cast

Jon Minnis as Father, Beatrice, etc. (voice)[https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/charade-lessons-in-creative-vision-from-a-college-student/249014/ Charade: Lessons in Creative Vision from a 1984 College Student - The Atlantic]