FINAL 2025 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED SHORT, DOCUMENTARY SHORT, LIVE ACTION SHORT
Here are my final Oscar winner predictions in the short categories for the 97th Academy Awards.
ANIMATED SHORT
| 1. Yuck! Loïc Espuche and Juliette Marquet | |
| 2. In the Shadow of the Cypress Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi | Annie |
| 3. Wander to Wonder Nina Gantz and Stienette Boskloppe | BAFTA, Annie |
| 4. Magic Candies Daisuke Nishio and Takashi Washio | |
| 5. Beautiful Men Nicolas Keppens and Brecht Van Elslande | Annie |
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
| 1. I Am Ready, Warden Smriti Mundhra and Maya Gnyp | |
| 2. The Only Girl in the Orchestra Molly O’Brien and Lisa Remington | |
| 3. Incident Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven | IDA, CEH |
| 4. Instruments of a Beating Heart Ema Ryan Yamazaki and Eric Nyari) | |
| 5. Death by Numbers Kim A. Snyder and Janique L. Robillard |
LIVE ACTION SHORT
| 1. A Lien Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz |
| 2. The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek |
| 3. Anuja Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai |
| 4. I’m Not a Robot Victoria Warmerdam and Trent |
| 5. The Last Ranger Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw |
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.
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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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