Calgary filmmakers among Oscar nominees

Two Calgarians are up for an Oscar award after this year's nominations were given out early Tuesday morning in Los Angeles.  

Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby have been nominated in the category of animated short film.  

Their 14-minute film Wild Life is about a 'remittance man' (young upper class men sent from England to live abroad on an allowance) who came to Alberta in 1909 to become a rancher.

This is not the first Oscar nomination for Forbis and Tilby. They also got the nod for their 1999 animated short film, When the Day Breaks. Tilby was also nominated in 1991 for the short film Strings.

Another National Film Board of Canada production — Dimanche/Sunday, directed by Patrick Doyon — was nominated in the same category.

Other Canadian nominees included Christopher Plummer, who got a nod for best supporting actor for his role in Beginners.

And the Canadian drama Monsieur Lazhar is one of five foreign film finalists.

The 84th Academy Awards will be presented in Los Angeles on Feb. 26.

Wild Life won best Canadian animation from the Canadian Film Institute last year.