Borge Ring and Hans Perk's wonderful short film, Anna & Bella:
This was the film that won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film when the Muppets were presenting the award:
Unfortunately, as you can see, the award went to the producer. Here's Hans Perk (from Mark Mayerson's blog) on the making of the film, and why giving the Oscar to the producer was such an injustice:
"Now everyone seems to think that Børge won the Oscar with this film, as well he should have. But it is on the mantlepiece of our pretty much useless producer. Børge never got it, as she apparently did not ask for a 'duplicate oscar' but for 'one more', which the Academy thought was a strange request.
The actual daily staff on this film were Børge and his assistant (me) for three years inbetween other jobs. As I had invited Frank and Ollie to lecture in the Dutch town of Haarlem in August 1984, and the film was finished just days before this, we premiered the film in the intermission.
To give you a clue as to why I am still a bit irritated with our dear producer: she ordered cels without the protective tissue. She got a painter who wanted to be an artist, so he painted the cels too thinly, making it look like a thunderstorm. Then she got the same guy to be cameraman, and he didn't want to use my field guides: 'How can you be so arrogant giving me those stupid squares ('lullige vierkantjes') - I'm an artist, and I decide where the camera looks!'--well, we used half the budget to get a brilliant painter/cameraman (Rem Laan) - so I worked for free (inbetweened, animated a bit, cleaned up on cel, edited, assistant-directed, painted heaps of cels, made mixing lists, etc)--and the producer has the Oscar.
I seem to recall that this incident changed the Oscar from a being a producer's to a director's award. Too late for Børge, though."