Best Live Action Short

Oscars 2020: The Best Live-Action Shorts Nominees, Ranked From Worst to Best

Common themes link these five disparate short stories.

Jan 23, 2020 3:30 pm /

Many of the shorts address topical issues or lingering social or political traumas. Updated 1/18/20.

Jan 18, 2020 9:20 pm /

Children in jeopardy dominate the shorts this year.

Feb 12, 2019 9:32 pm /

Check out some trailers from the five live action shorts contenders for the Oscar. Updated 2/24/18.

Dec 11, 2017 8:04 pm /

The Academy shorts and animation branch has whittled down 165 submissions to ten. Now they’ve got to get it down to five.

Dec 11, 2017 5:45 pm /

These 17 university filmmakers join the ranks of Cary Fukunaga, Spike Lee, and Trey Parker as Student Academy Award winners.

Sep 13, 2017 6:43 pm /

Outsider narratives dominate this year’s crop of nominees — and not an American film in the bunch.

Jan 27, 2017 9:03 am /

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