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A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films 
A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films 
A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films 
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A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films 
A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films 
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2026 Oscars: Official Submissions for International Feature Film
The race for the next International Feature Film Oscar has begun and this year Turkey is first out of the gate. Murat Fıratoğlu’s One of... Read More
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Carine Tardieu’s family drama The Ties That Bind Us (L’Attachement) has won Best Film at the French César Awards at its annual ceremony in Paris on Thursday, also... Read More
Best Documentary Short Film has an infamous reputation for being one of the more difficult categories to conquer. Because of their obviously abridged length, they... Read More
Hardcore Oscar fans know that the Best Live Action Short Film category has a rocky history when it comes to featuring quality nominees. Almost every... Read More
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... Read More
I was 18 the first time I downloaded Grindr, an app I had been fully unaware of before an explanation from a close gay friend... Read More
Avatar: Fire and Ash and KPop Demon Hunters were the top winners at last night’s 24th Visual Effects Society Awards. With its over 3,000 visual... Read More
This year, predicting the winner of the Producers Guild award for theatrical feature film is pretty easy. With voting overlapping with the Directors Guild, where... Read More
After the breakout success of Scrapper, her acclaimed indie debut starring Harris Dickinson, the bar for Charlotte Regan’s next project was inevitably set high. That... Read More
‘17’ Review: Kosara Mitić’s Devastating Debut Exposes the Cost of Silence and Complicity [B] Berlinale
There are films that portray sexual violence as isolated tragedy and then there are films that examine the systems that make such tragedy possible. With... Read More
Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Take Top Awards
One Battle After Another has been named Best Picture of 2025 by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC). Sean Penn also won Best Supporting Male... Read More
César Awards: ‘The Ties That Bind Us’ Wins Best Film; Richard Linklater First American-born Filmmaker to win Best Director 
A Guide to the 2026 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films