Our Annual Look At The Year’s Oscar-Qualified Animated Shorts: 39 Profiles
With shortlist voting starting today, we're revisiting all 39 Oscar-qualified animated short profiles we put together this year.
With shortlist voting starting today, we're revisiting all 39 Oscar-qualified animated short profiles we put together this year.
The surprise bid disrupts Netflix’s near-finished deal and ignites a new battle over control, financing, and the future of major Hollywood assets.
A surprise nomination for ‘Demon Slayer’ reshapes the awards season animation race as lead horses 'KPop Demon Hunters’ and ‘Zootopia 2’ strengthen momentum.
Director Seth Scriver on blending family memories, character design, and psychedelic stories in his genre-bending film, in theaters this weekend, VOD on the 16.
Roger Hargreaves' classic kids' franchise will head to theaters for the first time after recently launching an animated YouTube series.
Shingo Yamashita’s debut feature blends myth and music in an electric virtual world as Studio Colorido and Netflix expand their anime partnership.
SVA’s MFA Computer Arts program made a strong impact at SIGGRAPH 2025, with student volunteers, alumni, and faculty contributing throughout the conference.
Ukrainian director Anastasiia Falileieva discusses 'I Died in Irpin,' her autobiographical documentary short on war, trauma, and resilience.
After starting at Disney, Benedict helped guide the first TV animation boom at Hanna-Barbera, working on dozens of titles and documenting every step of the way.
Disney’s 'Zootopia 2' achieved numerous historic opening milestones across domestic and international markets, becoming Disney's biggest-ever animated release.
Strong’s haunting stop-motion short unspools in the near future, where the fate of the world rests on Dove, a mysterious warrior who can shift gender.
A deep dive into animation’s funniest, scariest, and most inventive snakes, from Golden Age classics to modern CG icons and hidden gems.
Strong domestic and international preview sales and box office forecasts position Disney’s sequel for one of the year’s biggest animated openings.
Directors Alex Woo and Erik Benson discuss the personal roots, dreamworld design, and laugh-out-loud humor behind their new Netflix feature 'In Your Dreams.'
The SCAD thesis short blends real family recordings with a rabbit’s cosmic journey, brought to life through Maurice Noble–inspired animation.
Explore the groundbreaking experiments and innovations in computer animation that paved the way for Pixar’s 'Toy Story,' released 30 years ago this weekend.
Ushev’s 'The Wolf' is a stark, painterly short that delves into the primal tension between man and nature in a frozen, impressionistic wilderness.
Angel is positioning the animated musical as a broad-audience holiday event, emphasizing scale, spectacle, and mainstream appeal.
'Winter in March' is a handcrafted film that uses soft materials to explore difficult, often painful subjects following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Here is the full winners list for the 2025 Emile Awards, where ‘Flow’ and ‘I Died in Irpin’ took home the top honors for European animation excellence.