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Kickstarter-Funded ‘Hair Love’ Wins Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Hair Love is the third Kickstarted film to take home an Oscar, and 2020 marks the tenth consecutive year that a Kickstarter-funded project has been nominated for an Academy Award.

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'Hair Love' and 10 Years of Kickstarter-Funded Oscar Nominees

This year, all of us at Kickstarter are rooting for Hair Love, an animated short film by Matthew Cherry about an African-American father trying to do his daughter’s hair for the first time.

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