Every year the Academy Awards gives out Oscars to short filmmakers, and every year a lot of people in the audience scratch their heads, because they’ve never seen or heard of most of the nominees.

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’ve reviewed every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Below are the Best Documentary Short nominees: As we learn at the end of seventy ...

Oscars Best Animated Short Film Commentary (Updated Feb. 12, 2026): It’s a tale as old as time: you will win or lose your Oscar pools based on the shorts. And this year’s animated short race is a huge ...

"It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." And off he goes on an adventure around Hyrule. This super cute, 2-minute animated short film is a must watch for any and all fans of The Legend of Zelda video ...

Some exceptionally unsettling elements were thrown together to create the Xenomorph when it first appeared in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi, "Alien." Spliced from ...

In today’s complex financial environment, governments need to juggle any number of security threats while keeping the global markets functioning smoothly. From AI attacks to widespread civil war, ...

The "Star Trek" franchise is known for venturing into new and often unexpected places. Its credo of boldly going where no one has gone before may not apply verbatim to every theme, but the spirit is ...

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Not the glossy, department-store version, but the one where the week before Christmas is a blur of errands, travel texts, family politics, and one too many “How are you, really?” conversations that ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

'Snow Bear.' Photo Credit: Aaron Blaise. 'Snow Bear.' Photo Credit: Aaron Blaise. “Snow Bear” is an animated short film by former Disney animator and Oscar-nominated animator Aaron Blaise (“Brother ...