Oscars 2023: Meet the Brisbane film student whose short film has been nominated for an Academy Award

Lachlan Pendragon is not your common film student.

The 27-year-old Brisbane animator has joined the likes of trade heavyweights Baz Luhrmann and Cate Blanchett as one in every of the Aussies nominated for an Oscar this 12 months.

His 11-minute cease movement film, An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It, which Pendragon wrote, directed, animated and voice acted in, is nominated for Best Animated Short.

Watch the video above.

Lachlan Pendragon and him mum Melinda attend the Oscars — Lachlan Pendragon is taking his mum Melinda with him to the Oscars, they usually spoke with Today from Los Angeles this morning. (Nine)

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“You definitely don’t set out for something like this when you start making a student film. So yeah, [I’m] incredibly excited, it’s beyond what I could dream,” Pendragon stated on Today this morning.

An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It is about an workplace employee who slowly begins to grasp that the world round him is pretend.

Pendragon is taking his mum, Melinda, together with him to the gala, the place the duo will rub shoulders with Hollywood’s largest and brightest. That’s not, nevertheless, what Melinda’s wanting ahead to.

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Still from Lachlan Pendragon's short film An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It, nominated for Best Animated Short Academy Award — An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It is nominated for Best Animated Short at this 12 months’s Oscars. (Nine/Lachlan Pendragon)

Melinda says she is blown away by how far her son has gotten.

“To be able to watch it was enough – to watch him making it in the lounge was cool, I got to see that every day. So that was awesome enough,” Melinda stated on Today this morning.

“And now this ride is totally unexpected and a little bit crazy and a little bit surreal and a little bit wonderful,” she stated.

Both mom and son will remember to characterize the Aussie spirit at the Oscars, with the pair selecting to put on Australian designers on the pink carpet.

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 20: Lachlan Pendragon attends the 49th annual student academy awards eremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Unique Nicole/Getty Images) — Pendragon can be carrying a Clay Rondo to the gala in Los Angeles on Monday. (Getty)

Pendragon excitedly advised the hosts that he has been fitted for a tuxedo by Clay Rondo, a Brisbane model, and Melinda can be carrying a design from Brisbane-based First Nations artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins.

While Pendragon says he is excited to presumably seize a selfie with Steven Spielberg, Guillermo del Toro and even Tom Cruise, Melinda simply needs an image together with her son on his massive day.

“Crazily for me, like I keep saying, make sure we get a shot together, Lachy, because we never get a photo together… just us, that would be cool,” she stated.

“[It’s] something we never do like, you know, that’s a bit crazy.”

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