Outside of the occasional festival screening, Oscar season is often the only time many filmgoers engage with short film, so the nominees better make it count. An Oscar nomination means greater ...

This year’s Oscar-nominated animated shorts tell compact tales about first kisses, sweets and an old-fashioned children’s TV show, along with more adult topics such as PTSD and hair transplants.

The Academy Awards are upon us, and you still have a bit of time to catch up on the nominated films...but not a lot. Theater-to-streaming windows are shorter than ever, which makes catching the ...

The Academy's disdain for animation is a matter of record, sniffily referred to as "kids' stuff" by Oscar hosts who would run screaming if presented with the scatological eschatology of a Mad God. But ...

Snow Bear is a beautifully crafted hand-drawn animated short from Oscar-nominated director Aaron Blaise , and it tells a simple but emotional story about loneliness, rejection, and unexpected ...

The upside of YouTube’s “You watched this one video, so you must want to see everything else we have in that vein” algorithm is that it helpfully surfaces things you didn’t even know to search for, ...

In recent years, the landscape of short animated films has undergone a significant shift. Short animated films are increasingly stretching beyond the 20-minute mark. In fact, three of this year’s five ...

Idris Elba and Gabriel Byrne voice some kindly animals, but the real standout is Pamela Ribon's frisky feminist comedy "My Year of Dicks." Outside of the occasional festival screening, Oscar season is ...