as in animated cartoon
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Recent Examples of short subject
The last person to accomplish this feat was Charles Guggenheim in 1994, for feature length D-Day Remembered and short subject A Time for Justice, winning for the latter.
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Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
Documentary feature Documentary short subject International feature film Makeup & hairstyling
Music (original score)
Music (original song)
Animated short film
Live-action short film
Sound
Visual effects
When are the 2025 Oscars?
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Remember that depth of field is almost non-existent at short subject distances with a wide aperture.
—PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
At the Oscars in February 1954, Walt Disney won four Oscars (all for different films): best documentary feature (The Living Desert), best documentary short subject (The Alaskan Eskimo), best cartoon short subject (Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom) and best two-reel short subject (Bear Country).
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
Documentary feature Documentary short subject International feature film Makeup & hairstyling
Music (original score)
Music (original song)
Animated short film
Live-action short film
Sound
Visual effects
When are the 2025 Oscars?
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Remember that depth of field is almost non-existent at short subject distances with a wide aperture.
—PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
At the Oscars in February 1954, Walt Disney won four Oscars (all for different films): best documentary feature (The Living Desert), best documentary short subject (The Alaskan Eskimo), best cartoon short subject (Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom) and best two-reel short subject (Bear Country).
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for short subject
Noun
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Olivia Rodrigo went vintage for Halloween this year, opting to dress up as the iconic animated cartoon character, Betty Boop.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
31 Oct. 2022
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To the narcissist, all other people are cardboard cutouts, two-dimensional animated cartoon characters, or symbols.—
Olivia Muenter,
Woman's Day,
14 June 2022
Noun
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Humanity has developed a lot of new technologies in the past 150 years—powered flight, automobiles, electric lights, radio, television, the telephone, motion pictures, and more.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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The film was also honored with Golden Globe Awards for best motion picture (drama) and best director.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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From the very birth of the moving picture in the late 19th century, the revolutionary medium has had an inherent fascination with its own creation.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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The idea of 24 frames a second, something that is hard to grasp, but in this sequence, in this flow, becomes a seamless moving picture is juxtaposed with with this gas inside of this tube which becomes an eternal glow.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Tesla has implemented autopilot and self-driving features on its vehicles that include traffic-aware cruise control, semi-autonomous navigation, response to traffic lights and the ability to summon the car from a parking space.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Best known for her acting roles in Friends, Cougar Town and the Scream franchise, behind the camera, Cox has directed across various genres and mediums, from music videos, and short form projects to television and feature films.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The film was based on her Sundance-premiering short.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
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The team self-funded an initial short, which later won a Webby, then used a drop of 10,000 high-fidelity digital collectibles as a crowdfunding mechanism.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Breakthrough producer nominations go to Wyn Baptiste for activism documentary Shoot the People, Charlotte Knowles for cross-border doc Palestine Comedy Club, Joann Kushner for screenlife heist movie LifeHack and Dhiraj Mahey for social-realist coming-of-age drama Ish.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Nov. 2025
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Fujimoto shoots in an almost documentary-like, fly-on-the-wall style from the very beginning, but this isn’t to say that the film is cold or analytical in its depiction of this story.—
Kambole Campbell,
IndieWire,
3 Nov. 2025
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One of her eyes closes slightly, turning her into a cartoon of shock and dismay.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2025
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Slipping into the character’s geometric purple dress and rocking her stylish red hair, Ripa brought the beloved cartoon character from The Jetsons to life in a playful, retro-futuristic look.—
Kate Hogan,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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