Highlights:
- The film features in ‘Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’.
- Facebook’s Oculus, EA and Respawn Win Game Industry’s First Oscar for ‘Colette’ Documentary Short.
- Trophy for documentary short subject Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards
- Directed by Anthony Giacchino, Colette contains a French Resistance survivor, Colette Marin-Catherine, returning to Germany for the first time.
Colette, a short film featured in the Oculus VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond
Colette, a short film featured in the Oculus VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, has won this year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Presented by Oculus Studios and Electronic Arts’ Respawn Entertainment, and later acquired and distributed by The Guardian, it’s the first time a video game industry project has won an Oscar.
Directed by Anthony Giacchino, Colette features a French Resistance survivor, Colette Marin-Catherine, returning to Germany for the first time since the end of World War II to visit a slave labor camp where her brother was killed. The documentary has a presentation in a traditional 2D format whether you watch it in the Oculus TV app or elsewhere.
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond was not well-received as a video game, with many reviews highlighting its huge system requirements and 170GB installation size — much of which was down to the inclusion of extensive historical and documentary footage. Now that one of those films has won an Oscar, the project may get more positive attention than before.
The actual hero listed here is Colette herself.
The true hero right here is Colette herself, who has shared her story with integrity and energy,” Oculus Studios director of manufacturing Mike Doran says in an announcement. “As we see within the movie, resistance takes braveness, however going through one’s previous could take much more. Permitting us to protect this pilgrimage for future generations was a real act of bravery and belief. We hope this award and the movie’s attain means, as Colette says, that Jean-Pierre’s reminiscence. In addition to all of those that resisted. There is no misplacement within the ‘Evening and Fog’ of Dora.”
“It’s true what they are saying: It truly is an honor simply to have nomination. And it’s an unimaginable second to win. Its humbling to have this recognition from the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences. Weand wish to prolong our honest congratulations to all of our fellow nominees. It’s a privilege to face alongside you.
“Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond” blends gameplay together with several short films. This includes“Colette” that is from stories of war veterans. Players in the game assume the role of an Allied agent of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). They has tasks of infiltrating, outgunning and outsmarting the Nazi war machine.
