The same day I attended a screening of the five nominees for Best Live Action Short Film, I also went to the screening of the five nominees for Best Animated Short Film to see what our independent ...

LOS ANGELES — The independent film "Flow" won the best animated feature film at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday, securing the first Academy Award for Latvia and its Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis.

From a swoony French short about kids grossed out by kissing ... with characters wearing facemasks and doing their best to social distance, the film has a peculiar, alienating feel that ...

Iranian filmmakers Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi also earned their first Academy Award for animated short film for “In the Shadow of the Cypress." It was the second Iranian animated or live ...

Credit: AP/Chris Pizzello Iranian filmmakers Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi also earned their first Academy Award for animated short film for “In the Shadow of the Cypress." It was the ...