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Brad Booker 鈥95, Computer Animation, won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for War is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko, at the 96th Academy Awards. The project was a collaboration with Booker鈥檚 production partner Dave Mullin and their animation studio ElectroLeague, along with Yoko Ono and John Lenon鈥檚 son Sean Ono Lenon. The animation and visual effects were created by Peter Jackson鈥檚 New Zealand-based VFX company, W膿t膩 FX. 

Still from the award-winning animated short War is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko, by alum Brad Booker and Dave Mullins.聽

The short narrative animation takes place on the World War One battlefield with an underlying anti-war message鈥攏o one wins at war. In the film, a carry pigeon aids two soldiers from opposing sides in a game of chess, carrying messages of their next move back and forth, until one day there is no one to send the messages, as both soldiers are presumably dead. Booker and Mullins previously won an Annie Award for Best Short Subject for the film.