short subject

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Recent Examples of short subject Full Frame is a qualifying festival for the Academy Award documentary film short subject. Addie Morfoot, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025 Movies were paired with overtures and intermissions rather than short subjects or promotional trailers. Cory Stillman, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025 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. Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for short subject
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • There have actually been two things expressly excluded from the definition which is onions and motion picture box office receipts.
    Daniel Wallach, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Over the last four years, the local motion picture industry has lost some 57,000 jobs.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Or take in a moving picture show at whatever cinema may still exist in your part of the world.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 15 May 2026
  • No combination of stilettos and old-fashioned shoe-leather can temper the fact that integrity, talent, hard work, and a dedication to treating everything from fashion to the moving pictures with seriousness is in perpetual danger of extinction.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • How about the digs—any notable features there?
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
  • Traffic calming features and safety measures for pedestrian and bicyclists were added in 2021, but they were only meant to be temporary.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • The 24-minute short premiered at the Mystic Film Festival in 2025 and has since been seen at festivals in Italy, Slovakia, Canada and elsewhere.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
  • The documentary short is produced by Ryan Biegel, Vicky Liu, and Holly Siegel.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Recently featured in a documentary tour by filmmaker and YouTuber Kirsten Dirksen of Fair Companies, the site offers a rare look inside the underground world where missile crews stood ready around the clock to launch one of the most powerful nuclear weapons ever deployed by the United States.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 June 2026
  • Steve and his wife, Natalie Shirilla, spoke up for their daughter in the recent Netflix documentary The Crash, which renewed national attention in the 2022 car crash that killed Russo and Flanagan.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Thanks to the franchise's unique origin story, the hit '80s cartoon series was effectively a commercial for Mattel's extremely lucrative toy range.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 4 June 2026
  • Skeletor’s voice is very different from the cartoon series voice.
    Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 June 2026

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“Short subject.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short%20subject. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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