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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
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Fletcher Peters

Fletcher Peters

Entertainment Reporter

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