Nominations for the 98th Oscars will be announced in 24 categories on Thursday, January 22nd. Three of those categories are exclusively for short films and will each have a shortlist of fifteen finalists winnowed down to five nominees.
Abe Friedtanzer from Awards Buzz is joined by Daniel Howat from Next Best Picture and Joey Moser from The Contending to run through all 45 films on the shortlists and offer predictions and personal picks.
Watch the video below to hear their thoughts and keep reading for a list of all 45 films currently in contention and links to our interviews with a number of the filmmakers!
Best Documentary Short
All the Empty Rooms
All the Walls Came Down (director interview)
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Bad Hostage (director and producer interview)
Cashing Out
Chasing Time
Children No More: Were and Are Gone (director interview)
Classroom 4 (director interview)
The Devil Is Busy
Heartbeat (director interview)
Last Days on Lake Trinity
On Healing Land, Birds Perch
Perfectly a Strangeness (director interview)
Rovina’s Choice
We Were the Scenery
Best Animated Short
Autokar
Butterfly (producer interview)
Cardboard
Éiru
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls (director interview)
Hurikán
I Died in Irpin
The Night Boots
Playing God (director and producer interview)
The Quinta’s Ghost (director and producer interview)
Retirement Plan (director interview)
The Shyness of Trees
Snow Bear (director interview)
The Three Sisters
Best Live Action Short
Ado (director interview)
Amarela (director interview)
Beyond Silence (director interview)
The Boy with White Skin (director interview)
Butcher’s Stain (director interview)
Butterfly on a Wheel (director interview)
Dad’s Not Home (director interview)
Extremist (director interview)
A Friend of Dorothy (director interview)
Jane Austen’s Period Drama (directors interview)
Pantyhose (director interview)
The Pearl Comb (director interview)
Rock, Paper, Scissors (director and producer interview)
The Singers (director interview)
Two People Exchanging Saliva (directors interview)
, Daniel Howat (NBP), and Joey Moser (The Contending) break down the 45 short films on the Oscar shortlists.){kind=link}