The 2023 Oscar winner for Best Animated Short Film is the Apple Original Film The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Based on the beloved bestseller by Charlie Mackesy, the film is produced by Matthew Freud, Academy Award nominee Cara Speller (Pear Cider and Cigarettes) of NoneMore Productions, and J.J. Abrams and Hannah Minghella of Bad Robot Productions. Directed by Peter Baynton (The Tiger Who Came to Tea) and Mackesy, the film is executive produced by Jony Ive and Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri).

Remarkably, this is the first-ever production of NoneMore, a company set up expressly to bring this story to the screen. The animation was developed remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 120 people from over 20 countries in production, for over 16 months.

The story follows the unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox, and a horse traveling together in the boy’s search for a home. It features Mackesy’s distinctive illustrations brought to life in full color with beautiful hand-drawn animation and stars Tom Hollander as The Mole, Idris Elba as The Fox, Gabriel Byrne as The Horse, and newcomer Jude Coward Nicoll as The Boy.