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 ...

Sometimes simple is better. You don't even need any dialogue to tell a story! This amusing new short film is once again an example of the great power of visual storytelling. Snif & Snüf is a 5-minute ...

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.

Cartoon Brew writers share their top animated features, series, and shorts of 2025, highlighting indie discoveries, global hits, and TV standouts.

"We need to talk about it. Because talking about death will help us to live together better." A fascinating, must watch animated short film made in London called Dying for Beginners, created by the ...

Rebecca is a freelance writer from NSW, Australia. She is a film and television list writer for Collider. Rebecca also has an interest in music, and hopes to one day begin the Church of Michael ...

After decades of struggling to find a home outside of rare traveling anthology shows, animated shorts have found a new home on streaming services like with increasing prominence on Netflix and YouTube ...

Growing up, Don Hertzfeldt first fell in love with animation while attending screenings at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Every year in the '90s, the venue held an annual animation festival ...