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
  • The singer-dancer-actress (born Freda Josephine McDonald) blazed trails as the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 French silent film Siren of the Tropics.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
  • They’re scanned for motion pictures, visual effects, and for video games.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Choose a few from each category and your garden will keep working through the hottest stretch of the year — with the bonus of pollinators that turn the whole thing into a moving picture.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Inés, the nine-year-old Chilean protagonist of The Meltdown (El Deshielo), the sophomore feature of actress-turned-writer/director Manuela Martelli (God Will Not Help, The Future), is about to find out the hard way how that concept applies to hidden truths and family trauma.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
  • This feature can recommend actions and surface information based on context like messages and emails.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • The documentary short is produced by Ryan Biegel, Vicky Liu, and Holly Siegel.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 13 May 2026
  • His work fighting to accelerate research into finding a cure is set to be featured in an upcoming documentary short, Ring Every Bell.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Draper’s other credits include the docuseries The Legacy of Black Wall Street for OWN/Discovery+, which was nominated for Outstanding Breakthrough Creative – Television at the 2022 NAACP Image Awards, and the 2024 documentary 13 Days in Ferguson for Paramount+/CBS.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 May 2026
  • The documentary also looks at how even through this reunion, the trauma of war still exists for Emmanuel and his team.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • The Indianapolis Colts pointed the finger at themselves in their Simpsons’ cartoon.
    Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2026
  • Other newcomers to the movie’s cartoon universe are Ike Barinholtz, Ego Nwodim, Josh Johnson, Matt Friend, Rhys Darby and Cristo Fernández.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 May 2026

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“Short subject.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short%20subject. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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