# All Heart Qualifies for Oscar with AI Animation

- Date: 2025-10
- Type: news
- Credit: Michael Govier, Will McCormack & Asteria
- Post: https://x.com/THR/status/1979288232371290430
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/all-heart

Oscar-winning filmmakers Michael Govier and Will McCormack (If Anything Happens I Love You) announce All Heart, a nine-minute animated short produced with Natasha Lyonne's AI studio Asteria. The film tells the story of a father visiting a young man with an extraordinary connection to his late daughter.

The production combines hand-drawn artistry by illustrator Jimmy Thompson with AI animation: Asteria trained a custom model on Thompson's original art to generate additional production assets in his style, then integrated it into a traditional keyframing and in-betweening pipeline. The approach sidesteps the copyright debate entirely — the AI learns only from the creators' own work. The short qualifies for 2026 Academy Award consideration in Animated Short Film, making it one of the first AI-assisted films to enter the Oscar race.

Links:
- Hollywood Reporter — Exclusive: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/natasha-lyonne-ai-company-asteria-1236403144/
- Animation Magazine: https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/10/oscar-winners-behind-if-anything-happens-i-love-you-announce-new-short-with-ai-animation-co-asteria/
- Deadline — Oscar AI Films: https://deadline.com/2025/12/oscars-ai-films-ahimsa-all-heart-1236643196/

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/all-heart
Era: 2025 · The Studio Era
Last updated: 2026-10-02