Tag: Academy Awards
‘Arco’ Exclusive Clip: Iris Make a Wish
In an exclusive new clip from the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Arco, young heroine Iris (voiced by Romy Fay) shares a tender moment with her...
Academy Awards: The Animation & VFX Nominees React
Updating with reactions from the filmmakers behind the animated features, animated short films and visual effects feats nominated for the 98th Academy Awards.
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Oscar Nominees for Best Animated Feature, Short and VFX Are Announced
This morning, the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards were announced in 24 categories at 5:30 a.m. Here are this year’s animation and visual...
It Takes a Creative Village: The Art of Character Design in 2025’s Top Animated Features
Once upon a time (as the prologue narrators used to say), animation character designers worked largely on their own, or in tandem with a...
Seven Animated Features Make Academy Awards Best Picture Eligibility List
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences today revealed the list of 201 films eligible for consideration in the race for Best Picture...
Disney+ Picks Up Oscar Shortlisted ‘Retirement Plan’ for Select Territories
Retirement Plan, a humorously existential 2D animated short film which has made this year's Academy Awards shortlist, has joined the Disney+ streaming lineup in...
Director Sylwia Szkiłądź on Her Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Autokar’ and Recalling Her Childhood Experience as a Polish Immigrant
Sylwia Szkiłądź’s imaginative and evocative Autokar is one of the 15 projects shortlisted for the Best Animated Short Academy Awards this year. Set in...
All 15 Oscar-Shortlisted Shorts Are Now Streaming on The Animation Showcase
You can now watch all 15 of the animated shorts shortlisted for the 98th Academy Awards on The Animation Showcase, the free streaming platform...
Oscar Watch: Introduction to the Shortlisted Animated Shorts
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday the 98th Academy Awards shortlisted films in 12 categories, including Animated Short Film. Members of...
98th Oscars Shortlists: The Animated Short & VFX Contenders That Made the Cut
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced shortlists in 12 categories for the 98th Academy Awards, including (of special interest to...
Oscar Watch: Handicapping This Year’s Biggest Visual Effects Contenders
A regular mix of spectacular and invisible effects will be competing against each other for Oscar glory at the 98th Academy Awards. However, what...
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Wins New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature of the Year
Sony Pictures Animation and Netflix's blockbuster hit KPop Demon Hunters has won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Feature. Known...
Nordic Flight: Anu-Laura Tuttelberg Looks Back at Her Award-Winning Porcelain-Animated ‘On Weary Wings Go By’
A porcelain girl wanders a bleak, but stunning Nordic landscape in Anu-Laura Tuttelberg’s haunting and memorable stop-motion short On Weary Wings Go By (original...
Sundance Winner ‘Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado’ Releases in the Americas During the UN’s 16 Days of Activism
An urgent message delivered in a powerful animated short film, Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado (As If the Earth Had Swallowed...
Director Joey Clift Captures an Indigenous Adolescent Experience in His Award-Winning Short ‘Pow!’
Joey Clift’s charming animated short Pow! centers on a young Native American boy who tries to charge his video game console at a large...
Oscars: 35 Animated Features Make Academy Awards Consideration Cut
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and...
Connoisseur’s Choice: A Highly Subjective Guide to the Top Animated Shorts of 2025
From the festival circuit, this looks like a wide-open year for shorts chasing the statuette named after Steve Austin’s (a.k.a. The Six Million Dollar...
Pixar Alum Masha Ellsworth Discusses Her Ukrainian Folktale-Inspired Short, ‘Bound’
Writer-director Masha Ellsworth’s new animated short Bound (Переплетені) is one of the more striking and original shorts up for Oscar voting consideration in the...
Academy Awards Reveals Animated Short Films for Voter Viewing
The preliminary voting period for the 98th Academy Awards is just around the corner (December 8-12, 2025), and voters have over 100 contenders in the Animated...
‘Wednesdays with Gramps’ Directors Chris & Justin Copeland Explore Family Ties and Love for Gaming in Their Heartwarming Short
“Whenever we work on a film, we ask ourselves: what about this idea makes it work as an animated film? What separates it from...
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