2026 Oscar Nominated Short Films, The: Animated

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Synopsis

Dir: Various. Compilation. Five Academy-nominated animated shorts. "Butterfly (Papillon)" (France), "Forevergreen" (USA), "The Girl Who Cried Pearls" (Canada), "Retirement Plan" (Ireland), "The Three Sisters" (Israel/Cyprus/Russia).

Content elements

• Infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, and ethno-cultural slurs
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand violence, some in a domestic context - no blood or detail
• Infrequent portrayals of monsters, forest fires, and peril to main characters - some detail; infrequent references to, and portrayals of, the holocaust - some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexually suggestive scenes - no nudity or detail
• Infrequent buttock, and female and male frontal nudity in an animated, non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context; infrequent references to cannabis use
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - little detail

Thematic elements

• Belonging
• Memory
• Love

Classification rationale

Rated PG for mature subject matter, coarse language, violence, and nudity

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