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short subject

noun

Definition of short subject

as in animated cartoon

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Recent Examples of short subject The film was nominated in the best short subject category, but lost to Snow Bear. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 23 Feb. 2026 The festival begins Friday and continues through Saturday with more than a dozen film selections, both full features and short subjects. — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for short subject

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Noun

Slater brings more than two decades of experience across film financing, producing, content rights, and worldwide distribution, with his 150 motion picture credits including recent productions The Optimist, Bella, and Lunar Colony.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
After a long, two-decade rise at the studio, Mancuso was, by 1983, president of Paramount’s motion picture division under company chairman Diller and president Eisner.

— Richard Natale, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of motion picture

Noun

Musique concrète is often referred to as a moving picture for the ear, a description that feels especially pertinent given Rossetto’s longstanding interest in theater and performance.

— Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 9 June 2026
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

Definition of moving picture

Noun

The low-budget feature will mark Just’s directorial debut, and be the second in the new Dogma25 slate of ambitious arthouse features from producer Zentropa.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
Produced by Emilie Lesclaux and Film at Lincoln Center, it was shot during the 2025 New York Film Festival, where the two directors were presenting their latest features, and grew out of conversations between them.

— Lise Pedersen, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of feature

Noun

Op-Docs won an Academy Award for its 2021 short The Queen of Basketball, directed by Ben Proudfoot.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
The Babysitter not only marks the fourth film in an ongoing partnership between the streamer and the prolific children’s horror author, but also the first not based on a short from Stine’s Nightmare Hour or Haunting Hour anthologies.

— Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of short

Noun

The next documentary in Netflix‘s excellent Untold film series will zone in on Love, who scammed women out of money while posing as a wideout with the San Francisco 49ers, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
The off-beat documentary about… well, the title says it all, has crossed the $2 million mark 25 days into its run.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of documentary

Noun

Now their lives are a haunted, claustrophobic cartoon, and Golyak revels in its theatrical opportunities.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
The candle smells of cereal, milk and lemon and is intended to recall the days of watching Saturday morning cartoons and summer.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of cartoon

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