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Two years ago, Kobe Bryant took the stage at the Academy Awards to accept, alongside Glen Keane, the Best Animated Short Film award for Dear Basketball. The Oscar win for his personal project came less than a year after the NBA great had retired from the sport. Tonight, another former professional athlete who segued…

Earning his first Oscar nomination for Hair Love, his first animated short, Matthew A. Cherry's entrée into the medium was inspired by a phenomenon he'd observed on social media. Centering his short on an African American father, as he confronts the intimidating task of doing his daughter's hair for the first time…

EXCLUSIVE: Karen Rupert Toliver is continuing her tenure at Sony Pictures Animation. The longtime animation executive has been promoted from senior vice president of creative development, the position she started in when she joined the company in 2017, to executive vice president of creative. In her new role, Toliver…