2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘The Miracle’ Director Nienke Deutz
Deutz’s film has qualified multiple times over for this year’s Oscar competition, including winning the grand prize at Animafest Zagreb.
Deutz’s film has qualified multiple times over for this year’s Oscar competition, including winning the grand prize at Animafest Zagreb.
In this atmospheric short, a watchman clocks into his lonely booth and spends hours composing endless security logs to stay awake, as he slowly descends into darkness.
This Iranian short earned its Oscars qualification by winning best animated short film at the Foyle Film Festival in Ireland.
Three-time Oscar nominee Torill Kove, who won the Academy Award for her short ‘The Danish Poet,’ is back in the Oscars race this year with a new film about her memories of growing up in Kenya.
In this Oscar-qualified short, a group of friends go on a roadtrip as their car – and their country – falls apart.
The NFB film earned its Oscars qualification by winning the Helen Hill Award for animated short at the New Orleans Film Festival.
Mathilde Bédouet’s ‘Summer 96’ qualified for the Oscars by winning the prestigious César Award, France’s equivalent of the Academy Award.
The Oscar-nominated trio behind ‘A Single Life’ is back with a new dark comedy about climate change and individual responsibility.
In this Oscar-qualified short, a group of children discover the grossest thing ever: couples kissing on the mouth.
Our Oscar contenders series kicks off today with ‘Wander to Wonder,’ a creepy look at the lives of puppets who are left alone in a tv studio after their creator dies.
Both films have emerged as key Oscar contenders in the animated feature and short categories.
Two other animated films also received special jury mentions at the festival: the feature ‘Olivia & Las Nubes’ and the short ‘Dragfox.’
The awards will be presented December 7 in Switzerland.
The film is the first traditionally-animated 2d feature produced in Pakistan.
The Ottawa win should help reinforce the fact that ‘Flow’ is one of the best animated films of 2024 and a real Oscar contender during the upcoming awards season.
An animation history documentary has won a top U.S. prize for documentary film.
For the first time ever, Netflix won both key animation categories – animated program and character voice-over performance – at the Creative Arts Emmys.
The awards will be presented later this month in Greece.
Netflix’s ‘Blue Eye Samurai’ led the pack with honors for three of its artists.
The deadline to submit is October 30, 2024.