If "Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'" stuck out among the titles in the Oscar Best Animated Short category, it may be because we think of Maggie and her family as belonging to television. After all, "The Simpsons" is TV's longest-running series ever, with 27 Emmys under its belt over the last 24 seasons.
But director David Silverman can testify to the fact that Homer's brood also has a place on the big screen: He was admitted to the Academy on the heels of the 2007 feature "The Simpsons Movie," even though that film was overlooked by voters.
"We'd been experimenting with 3D on one of our Halloweeen episodes, and we just thought that since we weren't doing a feature right now, it'd be nice to do a short," Silverman told TheWrap.