First looks The first minute of Netflix's One Piece reboot gives the anime a gorgeous new beginning Mizu starts breaking bones in London in a new clip from Blue Eye Samurai season 2 The Mighty Nein ...

EXCLUSIVE: Japan’s Bandai Namco Filmworks is teaming with six leading animation studios on short film project, Pursuing The Future, to showcase the latest technologies and creative ideas in Japanese ...

Versa is directed by Malcon Pierce (Raya and The Last Dragon, Encanto, andWish). The new short film played at Animation Is Film Festival this past fall, when we also got our first look. Versa follows ...

“Butterfly” is more than an animated short — it’s an intimate act of remembrance. Through hand-painted frames that feel like individual works of art, the film honors and retells the life story of ...

Oscars Best Animated Short Film Commentary (Updated March 9, 2026): It’s a tale as old as time: Oscar pools are won or lost in the shorts categories. And this year’s animated short race may be the ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

As they’ve often been, the short film categories can often make or break your office Oscar pool (is that still a thing?) or at least boost your online street cred. But at their hearts are 15 films ...

In Gorillaz‘s new short film, The Mountain, the Moon Cave and the Sad God, characters 2D, Russel, Noodle, and Murdoc are on a journey through an Indian landscape that looks a lot like The Jungle Book, ...

For Oscar fanatics, Best Animated Short Film is always one of the easiest Oscar categories to complete, if for no other reason than the nominees rarely run for longer than 15 minutes. This year’s crop ...

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.