Every year, one animation showing at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival breaks out and captures everyone’s ...

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: As we learn at the end of seventy ...

“Butterfly” is more than an animated short — it’s an intimate act of remembrance. Through hand-painted frames that feel like individual works of art, the film honors and retells the life story of ...

"This is not another one of your toys!" Enjoy this fantastic animated short from Mexico titled Shimmer, originally known as Fulgores in Spanish. Made by talented indie Mexican animation filmmaker ...

"What is that glowing red stuff?" A new official trailer has arrived online for a mesmerizing experimental animated film from China titled A Story About Fire, originally known as 燃比娃 in Mandarin (or ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Oscars Best Animated Short Film Commentary (Updated March 9, 2026): It’s a tale as old as time: Oscar pools are won or lost in the shorts categories. And this year’s animated short race may be the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Predicting who will get nominated in the three short-film categories at the Oscars is a challenge, even for the most seasoned ...

From Beauty and the Beast to The Princess and the Frog, these animated movies will make for a great romantic movie night.