When Paperman won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short early in the Oscar telecast, the film's director John Kahrs (pictured above) gave a lovely, brief speech, giving a special thanks to his wife, who was shown crying in the audience. A great Oscar moment. The film's producer, Christina Reed, reacted in a similarly enthusiastic, if slightly more mischievous manner; she threw three or four paper airplanes covered in kisses – much like those featured in the film — from the Dolby Theater's mezzanine.