The Sand Castle (film)

The Sand Castle
Directed byCo Hoedeman
Produced byCo Hoedeman [1]
Gaston Sarault
Pierre Moretti (exec.)
CinematographyJean-Yves Escoffier
Edited byJacques Drouin
Music byNormand Roger
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • June 1, 1977 (1977-06-01)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageNone
Budget$82,783 (equivalent to $387,060 in 2023).[2]

The Sand Castle (Le château de sable) is a 1977 stop motion animated short created by Co Hoedeman for the National Film Board of Canada.[3] It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 50th Academy Awards.[4][5]

  1. ^ Short Film Winners: 1978 Oscars
  2. ^ Evans 1991, p. 232.
  3. ^ "The Sand Castle". nfb.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
  4. ^ 1978|Oscars.org
  5. ^ "The Sand Castle". National Film Board of Canada Web site. 1977. Retrieved 2009-08-30.