
2025 Oscars Best Live Action Short cheat sheet: From ‘Anuja’ to ‘Room Taken’

Updated: Jan. 17, 2025
Predicting the nominees for the three short film categories at the Oscars is no easy task. Fortunately for you, we are here to help. Below are the 15 shortlisted titles for Best Live Action Short at the Academy Awards along with descriptions and embedded videos where available.
Among the subjects on this year’s list: an adolescent boy seeking to prove that he belongs in his family, the last moments that a woman spends in prison, a woman seeking to figure out whether she’s an android, and a Jewish ice cream shop owner in 1940s Amsterdam.
Here is your 2025 Oscars Best Live Action Short cheat sheet, ranked according to Gold Derby’s current combined odds:
“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” – 39/10 odds
In war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993, a passenger train is stopped by paramilitary forces to conduct an ethnic cleansing operation and only one of the...
Predicting the nominees for the three short film categories at the Oscars is no easy task. Fortunately for you, we are here to help. Below are the 15 shortlisted titles for Best Live Action Short at the Academy Awards along with descriptions and embedded videos where available.
Among the subjects on this year’s list: an adolescent boy seeking to prove that he belongs in his family, the last moments that a woman spends in prison, a woman seeking to figure out whether she’s an android, and a Jewish ice cream shop owner in 1940s Amsterdam.
Here is your 2025 Oscars Best Live Action Short cheat sheet, ranked according to Gold Derby’s current combined odds:
“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” – 39/10 odds
In war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1993, a passenger train is stopped by paramilitary forces to conduct an ethnic cleansing operation and only one of the...
- 1/18/2025
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
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