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This Year’s Animated Shorts Nominees Are Unbearably Bleak

WAR, WAR, AND MORE WAR

Even with John Lennon and Tim Blake Nelson, 2024’s batch of Oscar-nominated animated shorts is nearly unwatchable.

Fletcher Peters
Fletcher Peters 

Entertainment Reporter

Stills from the Oscar-nominated animated shorts
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/ElectroLeague/Courtesy Jalil Moghaddan/Miyu Productions/Mast Films/

From death row and incest to war and more war, this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Animated Shorts are perhaps the bleakest—and worst—in recent memory.

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Fletcher Peters

Fletcher Peters

Entertainment Reporter

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