Sean Ono Lennon Breaks Down His Oscar-Winning Short Film: ‘I Want to Make People Cry’
Rolling Stone | 02.12.2025 01:19
When Sean Ono Lennon teamed up with filmmaker Dave Mullins to create the short film War Is Over!, winning an Academy Award was the last thing on his mind. His focus was taking the anti-war anthem “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” — written and recorded by his parents, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, in 1971 — and introducing it to a new generation in an animated film about enemy soldiers in World War One playing chess via a carrier pigeon.
