2025 Oscars Animated, Documentary, Live Action Short Predictions

Selection Awards Circuit part is the house for all awards information and associated content material all year long, that includes the next: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Selection senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages mirror the present standings within the race and don’t mirror private preferences for any particular person contender. As different formal (and casual) polls counsel, competitions are fluid and topic to alter primarily based on buzz and occasions. Predictions are up to date each Thursday.

Animated Quick – Documentary Quick – Dwell Motion Quick Commentary (Up to date Jan. 9, 2025):

The Oscar brief movie classes typically function the wildcards of awards season — good for breaking your workplace pool or discovering the following huge filmmaking expertise. However they’re way over simply filler. A few of cinema’s brightest stars have roots in short-form storytelling, and the class continues to showcase auteurs making a big influence in movies underneath 40 minutes.

This 12 months’s shortlist, introduced in December, comes from numerous abilities, together with Zoe Saldaña, who stars in and produces “Dovecote.” Directed by her husband, Marco Perego, it marks their second collaboration following “The Absence of Eden.”

Within the documentary brief class, the unpredictability rivals its feature-length counterpart, with the identical department voting on each. Early favorites embrace “Incident,” “The Solely Woman within the Orchestra,” “The Quilters,” “Dying by Numbers,” and “Keepers,” in keeping with Selection’s Jamie Lang and Addie Morfoot, who analyzed the race. However let’s face it — that is one race nobody ever confidently predicts.

In live-action brief, Nebojša Slijepčević’s Cannes winner “The Man Who Might Not Stay Silent” has emerged as an early frontrunner. The movie tells the harrowing true story of 1 man’s stand in opposition to paramilitary forces throughout ethnic cleaning in Belgrade. One other contender is Adam J. Graves’ HollyShorts winner “Anuja,” which explores baby labor in India. The movie boasts high-profile govt producers, together with Oscar-winning Indian producer Guneet Monga Kapoor and Hollywood’s Mindy Kaling.

The animated brief class is equally stacked, with 13 nations represented among the many 15 finalists. Canada’s Torill Kove, a earlier Oscar winner for “The Danish Poet” (2007), goals for her fourth nomination with “Perhaps Elephants,” a pageant favourite at Annecy, Berlin, and Toronto. In the meantime, Portugal’s Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves return with “Percebes,” the 2024 Annecy Cristal winner, constructing on Gonçalves’ earlier success with “The Rubbish Man.”

Whether or not stay motion, animated, or documentary, this 12 months’s brief movies show that nice storytelling is aware of no runtime.

The 97th Oscars might be held on Sunday, March 2. All film listings, titles, distributors, and credited artisans will not be remaining and are topic to alter.