VIDEO : Kobe Bryant: Short Film?s Oscar Nod Shows He?s More Than A Basketball Player

Kobe Bryant is staying busy in retirement. He recently created an animated short film called ?Dear Basketball? with the help of Disney animator Glen Keane. The film was based on a poem Kobe wrote, and will join a field of five other films competing at the Academy Awards on Sunday night for Best Animated Short Film. He recently told ESPN that the short is "a form of validation for people to look and say, ?OK, he really can do something other than dribble and shoot.? ?