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Breaking down the 2026 best animated short Oscar nominees (and where to see them)!

(Photo: NFB) Every year, the Short Film categories at the Academy Awards highlight projects that often receive far less mainstream attention than feature-length nominees. This is especially true for ...

Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski take home Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for their National Film Board of Canada short The Girl Who Cried Pearls

Oscar for an NFB film--and 1st for the Montreal animation duo MONTREAL, March 15, 2026 /CNW/ - Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's haunting stop-motion fable The Girl Who Cried Pearls is an Oscar ...

Canada’s ICON Creative Studio to Adapt Novelist Isabel Allende’s ‘Dos Palabras’ Short Story as Animated Short

Canada's Icon Creative Studio has pacted with famed Chilean novelist Isabel Allende to adapt her 1989 short story 'Dos ...
GeekTyrant

Pixar’s HOPPERS Director Shares Early 2D Animation Test From the Film’s Development

Pixar’s latest animated adventure Hoppers is off to a great start in theaters, and director Daniel Chong is giving fans a fun ...

‘KPop Demon Hunters’ wins Oscar for best animated film

KPop Demon Hunters” has won the Academy Award for best animated feature film. The victory caps a culturally defining run that ...

The best live-action short film Oscar ended in a rare tie. Here are the 7 ties in Academy Awards history.

"The Singers" and "Two People Exchanging Saliva" tied for best live-action short film at the Oscars on Sunday night.

While accepting the award for best animated short for "The Girl Who Cried Pearls," Chris Lavis...

While accepting the award for best animated short for “The Girl Who Cried Pearls,” Chris Lavis joked about how people think ...
Salt Lake City Weekly

Reviewing the Academy Award-nominated short films

Academy Award nominations provide a rare showcase for short films—and an even rarer opportunity to see them in a theater. This week, the Oscar-Nominated Short Films program comes to the Broadway ...
Rolling Stone

See Gorillaz’s Tribute to Classic Cartoon Movies Like ‘The Jungle Book’ in New Animated Short

In Gorillaz‘s new short film, The Mountain, the Moon Cave and the Sad God, characters 2D, Russel, Noodle, and Murdoc are on a journey through an Indian landscape that looks a lot like The Jungle Book, ...
GameSpot

This Gorillaz Short Film Is The Kind Of Art AI Simply Can't Make

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's cartoon band, the Gorillaz, has taken a stand against generative AI with its new project, a short animated film that serves as a hand-crafted homage to the golden era ...
Deadline.com

‘The 98th Oscar Nominated Shorts’ Review: The Highs, The Lows And The One About The Donkeys

The five 2026 Oscar-nominated short films in each of three categories — Animated, Live Action and Documentary — are being released in separate packages in theaters beginning Friday via Roadside ...
Digital Journal

John Kelly discusses his 2026 Academy Award nomination for ‘Best Animated Short Film’ for ‘Retirement Plan’

Still from 'Retirement Plan.' Photo Credit: John Kelly. Still from 'Retirement Plan.' Photo Credit: John Kelly. Filmmaker John Kelly chatted about his 2026 Academy Award nomination for “Best Animated ...