HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES -- Oscar nominees for animated and live-actions shorts are soaking in the spotlight. "I mean, it's so much love and it's such a huge accomplishment for us. We feel very ...

LOS ANGELES -- Most of us are fairly well informed about the more high-profile categories at the Oscars. It's often harder to find some of the other films being celebrated. So to help get you Oscar ...

It’s award season which interests me for just about two reasons: We can watch (and rewatch) the Hamilton cast’s performance at the Grammys and the Oscar nominated animated shorts are showing in ...

Even at this late date, I have yet to see all of this year's Oscar-nominated feature films and documentaries. (I will get around to them.) But I have seen all the Oscar-nominated short films, which ...

Are the writers and directors working in the live-action short format universally obsessed with the very young and very old? Probably not. But a look at the nominees in the respective 2013 Academy ...

There’s scant dialogue but plenty of eloquent storytelling in the five animated short films up for a 2013 Oscar. Save for a five-minute Simpsons segment (“Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare'”), ...