Latest in Best Animated Short Film

From social justice to adolescent romance, this year's Oscar-nominated shorts filmmakers don't take long to make their points. The 2023 field of nominees include films from virtually every corner of the world, including Ireland, Iran, India, Norway, Italy and, of course, the…

Everybody gets old eventually, but Us Again writer-director Zach Parrish wants everyone to appreciate what they have in the moment. Parrish uses only dance, no spoken words, in this Disney animated short which has been shortlisted for the Best Animated Short Film category at the Oscars this year. Us Again follows Art…

For his Oscar-nominated animated short film, Opera, director Erick Oh wanted to create an animation that captured the essence of human history. The looping cycle style of animation was ideal for the story he wanted to tell, which Oh attributes to the cyclical nature of history. Comprised of many small scenes…

An Oscar-nominated stop-motion short made within the CalArts Experimental Animation Program, Siqi Song's Sister is a somber meditation on the lives affected by China's one-child policy, informed by the director's unique coming-of-age experience. The rare second child, living in a country that banned them—between 1979…

Kobe Bryant has scored again. The retired Laker took home the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Dear Basketball, his love letter to the game he played so well in the NBA for 20 years. Created on the eve of his retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers, the short is narrated by Bryant and describes his love…

A supervising and directing animator who has been with Pixar from Monsters, Inc. through the upcoming Incredibles 2, Dave Mullins has always nursed the dream of directing a film of his own, pitching shorts to Pixar since 2005, and spending his nights and weekends in pursuit of his goal. Finally, in 2012, Mullins sold…