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 Full Frame is also a qualifying festival for the Academy Award documentary film short subject. Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for short subject
Recent Examples of Synonyms for short subject
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 Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester will honor the cinematic legacy of George Eastman, who founded the school as well as the Eastman Kodak Company — and is the father of motion picture film.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The motion picture industry also worked diligently to find common ground that moves us forward while preserving first amendment, economic and individual interests.
    Mitch Glazier, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Clips not only conjure these same vivid memories, but also bring them to life in moving pictures.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The idea of filming a figure from the side — tirelessly running, running and running — was inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s pre-cinema moving pictures, those photographic studies of horses and humans, where activity was broken down into a series of stills for examination.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Going for a cut that accentuates your best facial features and hair texture can be a foolproof way to walk out of the hair salon feeling happy.
    Julie Ricevuto, Glamour, 15 Apr. 2025
  • This is a sprawling document of balance changes, quality-of-life tweaks, and major new features.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In a break with tradition, the opening night will world premiere a selection of five shorts rather than a single feature animation.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
  • New stories are expected, but excitingly, the teams behind the three most celebrated shorts from the first anthology have had a chance to revisit those worlds and tales, as The Duel, The Village Bride, and The Ninth Jedi are all getting follow-up shorts.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that the making of a fictional film is often as good a story as the one in the script.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Three decades later, the documentary Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror looks back on that day, featuring interviews with law enforcement involved in the case and victims of the attack.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Other kids spent Saturday mornings watching cartoons.
    Leena Tailor, HollywoodReporter, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Continue reading … Click here for more cartoons… MEDIA ‘ABSOLUTELY SICK’ – Parents file federal complaints after school forces 11-year-olds to take explicit health survey.
    , FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Short subject.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short%20subject. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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