(Photo: NFB) Every year, the Short Film categories at the Academy Awards highlight projects that often receive far less mainstream attention than feature-length nominees. This is especially true for ...

Outside of the occasional festival screening, Oscar season is often the only time many filmgoers engage with short film, so the nominees better make it count. An Oscar nomination means greater ...

This project started with a simple question: What are the most-viewed independently produced animated shorts on Youtube? As I soon discovered though, no online resource tracks that info. So I decided ...

Hello, and welcome to Sketch to Screen, a newsletter looking at the world of animation from yours truly, IndieWire Curation Editor Wilson Chapman. This is a space to celebrate all of animation, from ...

We review "The Three Sisters," "Forevergreen," "The Girl Who Cried Pearls," "Butterfly" (aka "Papillon") and "Retirement Plan ...

This year’s Oscar-nominated animated shorts tell compact tales about first kisses, sweets and an old-fashioned children’s TV show, along with more adult topics such as PTSD and hair transplants.

The 3 Sisters,” “Forever Green,” “The Girl Who Cried Pearls,” “Butterfly” and “Retirement Plan.” My personal favorite was “Forever Green.” It had a very simple plot, but I thought the style and ...

Outwardly eclectic, the five animated shorts up for this year’s Oscar actually make for the most complementary set of nominees in some time. In different media and from different angles, they all ...