Treats in small packages await the curious as the academy nominates five worthy shorts each in live-action, documentary and animation. Here's a guide to help you win your Oscar pool.

As someone who watches and studies the Academy Awards every year, I can tell you that the Best Documentary Short Subject ...

Reviews of all the 2026 Oscar-nominated films for Best Live-Action Short Film, including Jane Austen's Period Drama and The ...

In the second of three shorts roundups ahead of the March 15 ceremony, we profile this year's Oscar nominees for animated ...

From dive-bar patrons to Regency paramours, cross-generational friendship to same-sex longing, and chilly science fiction to ...

Every year the Academy Awards gives out Oscars to short filmmakers, and every year a lot of people in the audience scratch their heads, because they've never seen or heard of most of the nominees.

The Oscar-nominated Shorts programs continue to attract audiences who are either looking to complete their Oscar viewing list or just curious cinephiles seeking works from new voices from around the ...

The 2026 Oscar nominees for Best Original Song include the chart-topping "Golden" and the mandatory Diane Warren entry, but ...

You've got three weeks and change to watch as many Oscar nominees as possible before the March 15 ceremony, when we'll find out if "Sinners" record-breaking 16 nominations will tr ...

When informed that he'd landed in Academy history books with his Best Supporting Actor nomination for "Sentimental Value," ...

The party has become something of a victim of its own mythology as power-players began spending the year figuring out how they could get in.