FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED SHORT, DOCUMENTARY SHORT, LIVE ACTION SHORT
Here are my final 2024 Oscar predictions in Animated Short, Documentary Short and Live Action Short for the 96th Academy Awards.
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
- Once Upon a Studio
- Koerkorter (Dog Apartment)
- Pachyderme
- Letter to a Pig
- Ninety-Five Senses
- 6. Eeva
- 7. Pete
- 8. 27
- 9. I’m Hip
- 10. A Kind of Testament
- 11. Humo (Smoke)
- 12. Boom
- 13. Wild Summon
- 14. Our Uniform
- 15. War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
- The Last Repair Shop
- Deciding Vote
- The ABCs of Book Banning
- The Barber of Little Rock
- Last Song from Kabul
- 6. Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
- 7. Camp Courage
- 8. If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis
- 9. How We Get Free
- 10. Between Earth & Sky
- 11. Oasis
- 12. Wings of Dust
- 13. How We Get Free
- 14. Island in Between
- 15. BearNǎi Nai & Wài Pó
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
- The Anne Frank Gift Shop
- Red, White and Blue
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
- The After
- Knight of Fortune
- 6. Strange Way of Life
- 7. Invisible Border
- 8. The One Note Man
- 9. The Shepherd
- 10. Dead Cat
- 11. Yellow
- 12. An Avocado Pit
- 13. Bienvenidos a Los Angeles
- 14. Good Boy
- 15. Invincible
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.
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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