If you want to ace your Oscar pool, you musn’t ignore the three short film categories — animation, live-action and documentary. But what cinephile would, anyway? The 15 nominees here have already won ...

The Simpsons just released a new animated short that packs a surprising number of gags and references into just a few minutes ...

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA) 2026, one of Asia's largest Academy Awards®-accredited international short film festivals, today announced the Canadian animated film After Us as the ...

Splitting up the Short Films and Feature Animation branch into separate branches has been met primarily with enthusiasm. But there are concerns about their futures. The new Academy realignment that ...

A short animated film by Tatsuki Fujimoto, who is highly acclaimed for his Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man series of two ...

"I can't forget how you accepted me so naturally... I felt that, more than any person, it was YOU who actually saw me." This highly acclaimed animated short film is included on the shortlist for the ...

The animation branch, to which approximately 700 Academy members will belong, will be represented by two governors, and the short films branch, to which some 200 members will belong, will be ...

Once again another magnificent animated short film that shows the extraordianry potential of animation as a storytelling medium. There's so much that can be visualized with animation techniques. Solar ...

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the creation of two separate branches, dividing the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch into two distinct ...

Although all of this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Picture can be found on streaming services or for premium rental, some of the nominees for a smaller category are keeping it real with the ...

In recent years, the landscape of short animated films has undergone a significant shift. Short animated films are increasingly stretching beyond the 20-minute mark. In fact, three of this year’s five ...

The newly formed unit is staffing up to produce ‘feature-quality content’ with generative AI. is a tech reporter and author of the Lowpass newsletter. Netflix has been building a new internal studio ...