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
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As far as the executive suite, the new Paramount under motion picture bosses Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg has yet to find its new identity and make its mark.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2025
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The motion picture business was largely founded by a series of Jewish immigrants who retained their influence for years, chronicled most famously in An Empire of Their Own by Neil Gabler.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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While some dogs eagerly follow the moving pictures and even try to interact with them, others don’t seem to care what's on TV at all.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
17 July 2025
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Having got into moving pictures during its New Jersey infancy alongside Thomas Edison, Fox was in a powerful position to make a move for MGM.—
Chris Yogerst,
HollywoodReporter,
3 July 2025
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The 2025 Ford Explorer’s welcome new features add function to an already good midsize SUV.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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His killing could become not just a tragedy but a catalyst—an event that radicalizes ever more Americans, less an aberration than a feature of our increasingly perilous national politics.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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The couple's other projects in development at Netflix include a feature adaptation of Carley Fortune's novel Meet Me at the Lake and a documentary short called Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Clone Wars originally aired in 2003 as a series of shorts on Cartoon Network, employing Tartakovsky’s signature style of angular forms, kinetic action and sparse dialogue.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Aug. 2025
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Apatow is now making a documentary about Brooks, while also developing films about Norm Macdonald and Maria Bamford.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Although Jon Cryer recently appeared in Charlie Sheen‘s documentary, the former onscreen brothers appear to have lost touch off-screen.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
14 Sep. 2025
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Barely any other media in recent times has given me an instant shock of glee or revulsion like this absurd anarcho-cartoon being stretched and squeezed to its most grotesque and wholesome clickbait limits.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
10 Sep. 2025
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Everything from news about a deadly stampede to cartoons that lampoon Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been the subject of removal orders.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Short subject.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short%20subject. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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