2025 Oscars: Best Live Action Short Predictions

Nominations voting is from January 8-17, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 23, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.
The State of the Race
In recent years, recognizable names have flooded the Best Live Action Short category, with two of the last three winners being Wes Anderson and Riz Ahmed, both previously nominated in different categories.
This time around, the celebrity presence is more subtle, though even if there were a flood of already acclaimed directors giving short films a go again, the Short Films branch would probably reject them if it at all felt like a shameless Oscar grab.
The film right on the fence of this internal debate is “Dovecote,...
The State of the Race
In recent years, recognizable names have flooded the Best Live Action Short category, with two of the last three winners being Wes Anderson and Riz Ahmed, both previously nominated in different categories.
This time around, the celebrity presence is more subtle, though even if there were a flood of already acclaimed directors giving short films a go again, the Short Films branch would probably reject them if it at all felt like a shameless Oscar grab.
The film right on the fence of this internal debate is “Dovecote,...
- 1/14/2025
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
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