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Sean Ono Lennon Wishes Mom Yoko Ono “Happy Mother’s Day!” In Speech For ‘War Is Over!’ Best Animated Short Film Oscar


Sean Ono Lennon wishes Yoko Ono happy Mother's Day in Best Animated Short Film Oscar win for 'War is Over!' Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko'

Set to the anti-war Christmas classic song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”, the animated short follows two soldiers at the frontline of World War I as they play a chess game through carrier pigeon, unaware they are on opposing sides of the battle. “John Lennon and Yoko Ono wrote a song that inspired us,” said writer-director Dave Mullins as he accepted the award. Ono reportedly has retired to the sprawling upstate Catskills farm she purchased with the late Beatle.

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