12th Oscar for an NFB film—and 1st for the Montreal animation duo. Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski take home Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for their National Film Board of Canada short The Girl Who Cried Pearls.

Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski’s haunting stop-motion fable The Girl Who Cried Pearls is an Oscar winner—the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) production has been named Best Animated Short Film at the 98th Academy Awards, presented March 15 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.