short subject

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Recent Examples of short subject Full Frame is a qualifying festival for the Academy Award documentary film short subject. Addie Morfoot, Variety, 11 Mar. 2025 Movies were paired with overtures and intermissions rather than short subjects or promotional trailers. Cory Stillman, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025 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 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
  • Her practice spans royalties and profit participations, motion picture and television contracts, intellectual property disputes, reputation protection and new media and technology matters.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • Our statute only provides that derivatives on onions and motion picture box office receipts are excluded from our scope.
    Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • Musique concrète is often referred to as a moving picture for the ear, a description that feels especially pertinent given Rossetto’s longstanding interest in theater and performance.
    Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 9 June 2026
  • Or take in a moving picture show at whatever cinema may still exist in your part of the world.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Among them was a December 2024 lesson about Christmas that featured Zwarte Piet, or Black Pete, a controversial Dutch holiday character known as a helper to Santa Claus who is depicted with exaggerated, racist physical features — including large red lips.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2026
  • Delta’s current Sky Club rules reference a Grab and Go feature, saying existing Sky Club access policies and eligibility rules apply to all Grab and Go entries.
    Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Celebrities and style insiders have already embraced the new take on shorts, from Zendaya’s gray Moschino short suit to Margot Robbie’s luxe yet relaxed take on the Bermuda silhouette.
    Lauren Fisher, Footwear News, 16 June 2026
  • The 24-minute short premiered at the Mystic Film Festival in 2025 and has since been seen at festivals in Italy, Slovakia, Canada and elsewhere.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
Noun
  • The next installment of Amazon Prime Video’s sports documentary franchise, All or Nothing, will follow Manchester United throughout the 2026/27 Premier League season and debut next summer.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 15 June 2026
  • His wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who calls herself the first partner of California, is a documentary filmmaker.
    Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Michelle has also faced ongoing comments on her appearance ‒ a 2011 cartoon depicted her as overweight and bingeing on hamburgers and more recently, she has been accused of taking Ozempic to lose weight.
    Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • There were cartoons while dressing children, evening news while cooking dinner, and, before bed, families watched mutely as onscreen families laughed and talked.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

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“Short subject.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short%20subject. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.

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