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
  • As far as the executive suite, the new Paramount under motion picture bosses Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg has yet to find its new identity and make its mark.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The motion picture business was largely founded by a series of Jewish immigrants who retained their influence for years, chronicled most famously in An Empire of Their Own by Neil Gabler.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Having got into moving pictures during its New Jersey infancy alongside Thomas Edison, Fox was in a powerful position to make a move for MGM.
    Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • These entries, laying out a monthslong plot in excruciating detail, revealed multiple visits to Tops Friendly Markets to survey the store’s layout and analyze a Google graph feature for the location’s busiest times.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Our favorite feature is the lace trim below the knee on the skirt that makes this dress stand out among similar styles.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The couple's other projects in development at Netflix include a feature adaptation of Carley Fortune's novel Meet Me at the Lake and a documentary short called Masaka Kids, A Rhythm Within.
    EW.com, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Clone Wars originally aired in 2003 as a series of shorts on Cartoon Network, employing Tartakovsky’s signature style of angular forms, kinetic action and sparse dialogue.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Apatow is now making a documentary about Brooks, while also developing films about Norm Macdonald and Maria Bamford.
    Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Although Jon Cryer recently appeared in Charlie Sheen‘s documentary, the former onscreen brothers appear to have lost touch off-screen.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Probably not, because the original 2002 cartoon is still a standout in the Disney canon.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Last year the park swung open the doors to equally ingenious fairytale rides themed to the Frozen, Tangled and Peter Pan cartoons.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025

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