{"id":28981,"date":"2024-03-11T03:04:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T03:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/oscars-2024-short-film-inspired-by-john-lennon-yoko-onos-classic-tune-wins-oscar\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T03:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T03:04:49","slug":"oscars-2024-short-film-inspired-by-john-lennon-yoko-onos-classic-tune-wins-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/oscars-2024-short-film-inspired-by-john-lennon-yoko-onos-classic-tune-wins-oscar\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2024: Short film inspired by John Lennon &amp; Yoko Ono\u2019s classic tune wins Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-03-10\/M_WarIsOverLennonMullinsBooker_031024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>L-R: Brad Booker, Dave Mullins, Sean Ono Lennon\/ photo credit: Disney\/Frank Micelotta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A short film inspired by <strong>John Lennon<\/strong> and <strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong>\u2019s classic tune \u201cHappy Christmas (War Is Over),\u201d took home an Oscar Sunday night.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John &amp; Yoko <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">won the award for Best Animated Short Film, with the couple\u2019s son <strong>Sean Ono Lennon<\/strong> on stage to help accept the award alongside filmmakers <strong>Dave Mullins<\/strong> and <strong>Brad Booker<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cJohn Lennon and Yoko Ono wrote a song that inspired us,\u201d filmmaker <strong>Dave Mullins<\/strong> said in his speech.\u00a0&#8220;It is an anti-war message that we tried to honor with this film.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Sean used his time to give a shout out to his famous mom. &#8220;My mother turned 91 this February, and today is Mother&#8217;s Day in the U.K.,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So could everyone please say, &#8216;Happy Mother&#8217;s Day, Yoko!'&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 11-minute film\u00a0follows a game of chess, with a heroic carrier pigeon helping the game continue across enemy lines. It ends with the classic tune playing over the closing credits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L-R: Brad Booker, Dave Mullins, Sean Ono Lennon\/ photo credit: Disney\/Frank Micelotta A short film inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono\u2019s classic tune \u201cHappy Christmas (War Is Over),\u201d took home an Oscar Sunday night.\u00a0 War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John &amp; Yoko won the award for<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/oscars-2024-short-film-inspired-by-john-lennon-yoko-onos-classic-tune-wins-oscar\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}