AMPAS nominates five worthy shorts in each category but only one will prevail. Here's a guide to help you win your Oscars pool.

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Animated Short nominees: Beautiful Men | Belgium/France/Netherlands | 18 minutes Three brothers.

Perhaps it’s a sign of the times, that drumbeat of anxiety pulsing through the live action segment of this year’s Oscar nominated short films. Proximity to Valentine’s Day notwithstanding, this stress-filled collection boasts nary a spark of romance nor a scintilla of comedy.

Online streaming has made it easier to view short films, but you can get that in-theater experience when Oscar-nominated shorts open movie houses this week. Slates of short live action,

Last year, Yegane Moghaddam made history when her short “Our Uniform” became the first Iranian nominee in the category’s history in 2024. It didn’t take long for the country to repeat that feat this year by scoring a nomination with Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani’s 2D short “In the Shadow of the Cypress,” about a captain suffering from PTSD.

Oscar-nominated short films are scheduled to screen in Rockford prior to the 97th Academy Awards ceremony. The Oscar Nominated Short Films, presented by SHORTS, will screen at The Music Box, at 218 E State Street.

Nominated Oscar shorts include "Beautiful Men" (Nicolas Keppens and Brecht Van Elslande), "In the Shadow of the Cypress" (Shirin Sohani and Hossein Mo

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’re reviewing every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Follow here this week. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: Death by Numbers | USA | 33 minutes Four years.

Our film critic reviews the animated category’s candidates, which are playing at Coolidge Corner, and picks his choice to win the Oscar.