FINAL 2022 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ANIMATED SHORT, DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT, LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM

Here are my final 2022 Oscar nomination predictions for Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Subject and Live Action Short Film.

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

15 advanced in the Animated Short Film category for the 94th Academy Awards. 82 films qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch voted to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

1. Robin Robin (Netflix) – BAFTA longlist  
2. Us Again (Walt Disney)
3. Bestia
4. Step Into the River (The New Yorker)
5. Namoo (Boabab Studios) 

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6. The Musician (MTV Entertainment)
7. The Windshield Wiper
8. Angakusajaujug: The Shaman’s Apprentice
9. Mum Is Pouring Rain
10. Souvenir Souvenir

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

15 advanced in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 94th Academy Awards. 82 films qualified in the category. Members of the Documentary Branch voted to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

1. Audible (Netflix)
2. Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis (Netflix)
3. Sophie and the Baron (Disney Original Documentary)
4. The Queen of Basketball (The New York Times)
5. Terror Contagion (NEON) 

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6. Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker (MTV)
7. When We Were Bullies (Locomotion Films)
8. Three Songs for Benazir (Netflix)
9. The Facility (A Field of Vision)
10. Day of Rage (The New York Times)

LIVE ACTION SHORT

15 advanced in the Live Action Short Film category for the 94th Academy Awards. 145 films qualified in the category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation, Directors, Producers and Writers Branches voted to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

1. The Long Goodbye (WePresent)
2. Ala Kachuu – Take and Run (Salaud Morisset) 
3. Under the Heavens (The New Yorker) 
4. When the Sun Sets (HBO) 
5. Censor of Dreams (Salaud Morisset)

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6. The Dress (DOBRO/MIŁO/GŁOSNO)
7. You’re Dead Helen (Daylight Films/Formosa Productions)
8. Please Hold (Scavenger Entertainment)
9. Tala’vision (Filmakademie Baden–Wüttemberg)
10. The Criminals (Lights On)

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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