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2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘A Crab In The Pool’ Directors Alexandra Myotte And Jean-Sebastien Hamel
This Oscar contending short takes place in a run-down neighborhood, where Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves.
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2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Nube’ Directors Christian Arredondo And Diego Alonso Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada
The short earned its Oscars qualification by winning the Ojo for Best Mexican Animated Short Film at Morelia International Film Festival.
Rediscover Chris Lavis And Maciek Szczerbowski’s Oscar-Nominated NFB Gem ‘Madame Tutli-Putli’
A look back at the Oscar-nominated short and the innovative artistry of Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, directors of ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls.’
As Critics Choice Awards Announce Nominees, Consensus Forms In Feature Animation Awards Race
‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Flow’ are the CCA’s most nominated animated films.
First Teaser Trailer Released For Looney Tunes Film ‘The Day The Earth Blew Up’
The Pete Browngardt-directed film is scheduled for U.S. release on February 28, 2025.
New York’s French Animation Festival Animation First Reveals Exciting 2025 Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)
The event includes the U.S. premiere of Claude Barras’s ‘Savages’ and the East Coast premiere of Michel Hazanavicius’s ‘The Most Precious of Cargoes.’
Animation Showed Major Strength At Last Weekend’s U.S. Box Office
Animated features from three continents drew audiences to the movie theater last weekend.
The Turbulent, Messy, And Creatively Radical Production Of Pixar’s New Series ‘Dream Productions’
Pixar’s Bill Wise explains how the studio’s new series was a “huge cultural change for Pixar,” but concedes that the studio “learned little from our experiment.”
2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Remember Us’ Director Pablo Leon
In this uncompromising 2d short, a journalist documents the experiences of people who lived through the tragic 12-year-long Salvadoran civil war in the 1980s.
Framestore Asked Directors Like Spike Jonze And James Gunn To Discuss Their Collaboration With Animators
The new online video series, called ‘Directing The Invisible Art,’ explores how film directors work with animators on hybrid productions.
2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘The 21′ Director Tod Polson
‘The 21,’ crafted in the style of Coptic iconography, is a film honoring the 21 Coptic men murdered by ISIS in 2015.
2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Prostrate and Draw Near’ Directors Suraya AlShehry And Nabila Abuljadayel
Based on true events, ‘Prostrate and Draw Near’ portrays a unique spiritual moment in an almost empty Holy Mosque of Makkah during the COVID-19 lockdown.
2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘A Bear Named Wojtek’ Director Iain Gardner
Gardner’s hand-drawn animated film tells the real-life story of a bear that legend says played a key role during a battle of World War II.
2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Zoo’ Director Tariq Rimawi
Based on true events, ‘Zoo’ was inspired by the world’s worst zoo located in Gaza.
2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘La Perra’ Director Carla Melo Gampert
The Colombian short is in contention after winning three Oscar-qualifying festivals.
Here Are The Golden Globes 2025 Nominations For Best Animated Feature
=Dreamworks Animation’s ‘The Wild Robot’ leads the animation pack with four nominations.
2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Duck’ Director Elie Chapuis
Vladimir and Olga hope for a child, but this expectation soon turns into a nightmare in this eerie short where dreams and reality collide through stop-motion animation.
2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘The Garden of Heart’ Director Olivér Hegyi
An artist battles with his inner demons in this award-winning Hungarian short.
2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Nate & John’ Director Jumai Yusuf
Barbershops and salons are “one of the last spaces in modern society that nurtures face-to-face connections, allowing people to bond on a basic human level,” says director Jumai Yusuf about the setting of her short film.
2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘The Lovers’ Director Caroline Sandvik
In this short mixing horror and unromantic comedy, Carolina Sandvik unveils her own vision about the life of a couple forced to deal with escalating bodily transformations.
‘Flow’ Wins Best Animated Feature At European Film Awards
The film is on an awards season streak, and also won two major awards in the U.S. this week.
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