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Oscar Shorts 2021 run the gamut from maudlin to magnificent The 15 nominated shorts offer everything from vivid cartoons to complex metaphors and shattering stories of lost lives by Norman Wilner on April 7th, 2021 at 8:00 PM 1 of 4 2 of 4 Oscar Shorts 2021 Available to stream at VIFF Connect until April 29 Remember last year, when passing an Oscar pool around the office was a completely normal thing? The 2020 Academy Awards ceremony was one of the very last normal events of the before-ti...

The 2021 Oscar-nominated shorts: 15 films examine lifes many conditions Michael Ordoña Los Angeles Times (TNS) The 15 short-film Oscar nominees — live action, documentaries and animation — show that the format is alive and well, showcasing a wide range of topics, tones and approaches — and highlighting a trend in documentaries toward more daring cinematic style and extreme subjectivity. The Appell Center for the Performing Arts, 50 N. George St., will host screenings of the Oscar-nominat...

Print The 15 short-film Oscar nominees — live action, documentaries and animation — show that the format is alive and well, showcasing a wide range of topics, tones and approaches — and highlighting a trend in documentaries toward more daring cinematic style and extreme subjectivity. For information on viewing them, go to shorts.tv/theoscarshorts. Here’s a quick look at each. Animation “Burrow”: A Pixar SparkShort about a rabbit embarrassed by her humble ambitions for her home when ...

Burrow (USA, 6 minutes) Director: Madeline Sharafian.  In perhaps the quaintest of the five animated shorts, a female rabbit digs for new digs only to repeatedly find herself invading the space of other burrowing creatures. This process continues until she learns going it alone isn’t nearly as fun and rewarding as joining together to form a community. What Sharafian, an artist on the Oscar-winning “Coco,” lacks in imagination is handsomely compensated by superior animation techniques and...

This years Fargo Film Festival features 5 movies with Oscar buzz Festival staffers talk about some of the titles likely to generate a buzz over the next two weeks as the annual festival streams March 18-28. Written By: John Lamb | × Steven Prescod and Robert Tarango star in "Feeling Through." Special to The Forum FARGO — The Fargo Theatre won’t be hosting guests for its annual Fargo Film Festival, but that’s not keeping staffers from enthusiastically dishing a...

Oscar Nomination Predictions: Will There Be Weird Choices for a Weird Year? In a long season that’s been hard to endure and hard to predict, here are our best guesses in all 23 categoriesSteve Pond | March 11, 2021 @ 6:15 AM AWARDS BEAT "Minari" (A24), "Nomadland" (Searchlight), "Promising Young Woman" (Focus), "The Trial of the Chicago 7" (Netflix) It’s time for Oscar voters to try and make sense of the movies from a year in which the movie business didn’t really exist. After 12 mon...

Uptown Magazine Mar 5, 2021 Check out the trailers and teasers for the films, miniseries, and shows landing on TV and streaming platforms this March. This month is shaping up to be a delight when it comes to viewing entertainment. A few documentaries and miniseries will tell the stories of Tina Turner, Greenleaf creator Craig Wright, Delilah, premieres on OWN. And we can’t forget about Coming 2 America, which hit Amazon Prime Video today. Here’s what to stream and watch in March 2021. G...