Explore Our Coverage Of The Oscar-Nominated Animated Features And Shorts

Awards season comes to a close this weekend with the presentation of the Oscars, which makes it an ideal time to review some of our key coverage of this year’s Academy Award-nominated features and shorts.

The animation awards are presented in a matter of minutes, and the Academy has deemed the animation short award so unimportant that it won’t even present it live during its telecast. But at Cartoon Brew, we live and breathe these films, and we’ve been devoting coverage to them throughout the year, in many cases, before the films were even nominated.

Below, we’ve rounded up our profiles of all ten Oscar-nominated films, as covered by site contributors Alex Dudok de Wit, Jen Hurler, Carlos Aguilar, Cole Delaney, and Chris Robinson. This past year has been particularly special due to our partnership with INBTWN Animation, Cartoon Brew’s official online event partner, which has enabled us to expand our coverage to also include video interviews with filmmakers.

Enjoy learning more about these fantastic cinematic works:

Best Animated Feature

Encanto

See the work of the film’s art directors, visual development artists, and story artists, and watch the INBTWN Animation interview with directors Jared Bush and Byron Howard:

Flee

Read the interview with film editor Janus Billeskov Jansen.

Luca

Watch the INBTWN interview with director Enrico Casarosa:

The Mitchells vs The Machines

Read the interview with production designer/character designer Lindsey Olivares, and watch the INBTWN interview with director Michael Rianda:

Raya and the Last Dragon

Watch the INBTWN interview with directors Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada, and co-writer Qui Nguyen:

Best Animated Short Film

Affairs of the Art

Read our interview with director Joanna Quinn.

Bestia

Read our interview with director Hugo Covarrubias and producer Tevo Díaz.

Boxballet

Read our interview with director Anton Dyakov.

Robin Robin

Read our interview with directors Dan Ojari and Mikey Please.

Windshield Wiper

Read our interview with director Alberto Mielgo and producer/lead artist Leo Sanchez.