short subject

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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. 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 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
  • One sees admirable narrative drive in writers like Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Joseph Conrad, who did their work without the benefit of motion pictures, and as a result don’t have the same clarity of vision.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Fitzpatrick branched out into film, appearing in fifteen major motion pictures, among them Married to the Mob, Philadelphia, The Fugitive, and Mad Dog and Glory.
    News Desk, Artforum, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • New episodes drop every Wednesday and feature interviews with artists and personalities like Lainey Wilson, Hardy, Charley Crockett, Gavin Adcock, Amanda Shires, Shooter Jennings, Margo Price, Dusty Slay, Lukas Nelson, Ashley Monroe, Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor, and Clever.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Creators of websites can implement accessibility features that could help aid the AI models powering the browser.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The short has already qualified for Academy Award consideration and will begin its official Oscar campaign this season.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ryan Reynolds, a lifelong John Candy fan, produced the documentary and asked Hanks to direct it.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Based in Amsterdam and led by Frank Hoeve, Baldr is building a reputation for fostering innovative filmmakers and forging co-productions that bridge documentary and fiction.
    Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In it, a cartoon version of herself smiles and waves in front of her colorful shop along 39th.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But a birthday is a tricky plot device for a cartoon character who has been a middle schooler for 18 years.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Short subject.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short%20subject. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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