Oscar-Nominated Shorts

These exuberant and inventive Oscar-nominated shorts span animated, documentary, and fiction work, including eye-catching early films by Andrea Arnold, Richard Lester, and Shirley Clarke. At an awards show often dominated by stars and industry titans, the short-film Academy Award categories tend to recognize up-and-comers, outsiders, and unknowns, making for some of the ceremony’s most unpredictable and exciting moments.