NINE years of painstaking work was rewarded when Melbourne illustrator and director Shaun Tan scored his first Oscar nomination.
Tan's film, The Lost Thing, has been nominated for best animated short film, bringing the first-time movie-maker a sense of relief and elation.
Brunswick-based Tan, who wrote the book the film was based on, said there were times when he felt he would never get the movie finished.
"Sometimes it feels totally ridiculous when you are spending entire days focused on the shape of a nose or the colour of a cloud in the background," he said.
"You start wondering why you are doing this. But we all love the film, and always believed in it. It was just a really long project."
Work on the film, which was made by a core team of just four people, started in Melbourne in 2001 with several rough versions of the film discarded.
"It is weird because over that amount of time the technology changes and by the time I finished on the film I went from being a real novice director to now feeling like I have done a 10-year film course."
Tan said he was looking forward to going to the Oscars on February 27.
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