The Los Angeles Lakers legend won an Oscar for his short "Dear Basketball" after launching ... "I want a diverse animation team. That is the opportunity. I want young African American children ...

Academy Award winner Kobe Bryant was dropped as a jury member from the Animation Is Film festival ... this year for his animated short-film Dear Basketball, but under pressure from a group calling ...

In 2007, he won the Winsor McCay Award, which is given for lifetime contributions to the field of animation. He also recruited Williams for the score of "Dear Basketball." Williams is perhaps ...

Despite being recommended for entry by the executive committee of the Academy's Short Film and Feature Animation branch ... to merit membership because Dear Basketball was his first filmmaking ...

"Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling ... Narrated by Bryant with animation by Glen Keane and music by John Williams, it scored the NBA legend an Academy Award for Best Animated ...

But not before he unleashes his inner Wordsworth. His farewell poem, addressed to "Dear Basketball," may be the sweetest Dear John letter any sport has ever received.

I swear I do.” On Monday, James said he watched Bryant’s film, “Dear Basketball,” which was based on a poem the five-time champion wrote in 2015 in advance of his retirement from playing ...