Tadeo Jones

Tadeo Jones is a 2004 Spanish short animated film directed by Enrique Gato. It tells the story of Tadeo Jones, an adventurer who enters a pyramid where he finds a family of mummies. The project of this film was born when Gato wanted to make a short film containing more action and humour than his previous projects, so he decided to make a parody of the adventure genre, whose representative figure is Indiana Jones. The story contains many elements from Raiders of the Lost Ark. The synopsis, in the director's words, is "adventurer Tadeo Jones is a little foolish but stubborn to explore an ancient pyramid and will run into a family of mummies."

The film won sixty-five awards including the Goya Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 20th Goya Awards and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and it was pre-selected for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film list, but it didn't gather the nomination as one of the five selected shorts. Three years later, there was a sequel to the short film called Tadeo Jones and the Basement of Doom. A feature-length animated film, Tad, the Lost Explorer, featuring Tadeo Jones (named Tad Stones in English), was released in 2012, beginning a film series.