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2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Busy Bodies’ Director Kate Renshaw-Lewis
Tiny factory workers expose the absurdity of everyday production in a short combining printed animation, vintage synthesizers, and household sounds.
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2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘The Flesh Dress’ Director Joachim Hérissé
Fabric, flesh, and skin blur in a stop-motion horror short exploring the fear of aging, patterns of domination, and the anxieties of artistic creation.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Pigeons’ Director Amos Sussigan
Sussigan discusses turning fears about AI and obsolescence into an animated pigeon documentary, made by 45 artists on almost no budget.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Sulaimani’ Director Vinnie Ann Bose
Two women from Kerala revisit memories of home over a meal in Paris, in a short blending stop-motion food with hand-painted recollections of the past.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Dear Upstairs Neighbors’ Director Connie Qin He
Noisy neighbors fuel a sleepless woman’s surreal fantasies in a short combining 2D and 3D animation with Google DeepMind’s generative AI tools.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘God Is Shy’ Director Jocelyn Charles
A playful exchange of drawings aboard a train turns sinister in a cosmic horror short that contrasts saturated colors with unsettling visions.
Ketchup Lights The Fuse On ‘Coyote Vs. Acme’ Animated Feature Oscar Campaign After Academy Approval
Once shelved by Warner Bros., Dave Green’s hybrid could turn its unlikely comeback into an awards-season black eye for the studio that buried it.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘What We Leave Behind’ Directors Alexandra Myotte And Jean-Sébastien Hamel
A man returns to the hockey rink of his childhood in a raw, hand-drawn exploration of sexual abuse, repressed trauma, and the difficult path toward healing.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Saba’ Director Liron Topaz
A boy seeks closure after losing his grandfather in this hand-drawn, continuous-shot short, with animation led by James Baxter and an international team.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Once In A Body’ Director María Cristina Pérez González
A woman carrying a strange being seeks reconciliation with her sister in a hand-painted exploration of how memory and experience inhabit our bodies.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘The End’ Director Niki Lindroth Von Bahr
Animal travelers inhabit an airport inspired by Dante’s limbo in a stop-motion satire of modern life, where everyday frustrations meet mortality.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Because Today Is Saturday’ Director Alice Guimarães
A mother’s attempt to find time to write becomes a vivid exploration of invisible domestic labor, mental overload, and the need for creative freedom.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Dog Alone’ Director Marta Reis Andrade
An abandoned dog, a widowed grandfather, and a young woman returning home share a search for connection in this Portuguese portrait of loneliness and affection.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Cosmonauts’ Director Leo Černic
Three lonely travelers seek sex, affection, and belonging on an intergalactic singles cruise in a 2D comedy that pairs bawdy humor with tenderness.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Monitor’ Director Michael Berardini
The anxieties of new parenthood become blood-freezing, supernatural horror in this indie short that opened the 2026 Annecy Festival.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Bread Will Walk’ Director Alex Boya
A sister protects her bread-transformed brother from a hungry mob in a hand-drawn satire of overconsumption, told in one continuous shot.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Living With A Visionary’ Director Stephen P. Neary
Narrated by James Cromwell, the handmade film explores love, caregiving, and loss through an intimate story adapted from John Matthias’ memoir.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘9 Million Colors’ Director Bára Anna Stejskalová
A mantis shrimp befriends a blind fish in a stop-motion musical exploring female friendship and how we connect when we see the world differently.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Acid City’ Directors Jack Wedge And Will Freudenheim
Acid City blends real New York voices with a surreal sci-fi world to explore climate change, extreme heat, and our relationship with water.
2027 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘Corpus Christi’ Director Bea Lema
Bea Lema discusses ‘Corpus Christi,’ her partly embroidered animated short about mental illness, religion, family, and inherited trauma.