2021 Oscars Best Picture Nominees Ranked
Joseph Wade
Burrow (2020) Short Film Review
Madeline Sharafian’s ‘Burrow’, the Pixar SparkShorts entry into the 2021 Oscars Animated Short category, is a nursery rhyme relevant to our times. Joseph Wade reviews.
Read MoreTwo Distant Strangers (2021) Short Film Review
Oscar nominated live action short ‘Two Distant Strangers’, from Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, starring Joey Bada$$ and Andrew Howard, tells of police brutality and murder in the United States.
Read MoreGenius Loci (2021) Short Film Review
‘Genius Loci’, the 2021 Oscar nominated Animated Short from Adrien Merigeau in conjunction with Brecht Evens, is a wondrous example of cinema’s ability to connect on a deep level. Joseph Wade reviews.
Read MoreThe Letter Room (2020) Short Film Review
Oscar Isaac stars in Elvira Lind’s Live Action Short nominee at the 2021 Oscars, ‘The Letter Room’, “an interesting experiment worth exploring for fans of Lind or Isaac in particular.” Joseph Wade reviews.
Read MoreYes-People (2021) Short Film Review
Probably the most quirky of all the Animation Short Subjects nominated at the 2021 Oscars, Gísli Darri Halldórsson’s Icelandic short film ‘Yes-People’ will lift your anxieties for 8 minutes at least.
Read MoreFeeling Through (2020) Short Film Review
Live-Action Short nominee at the 2021 Oscars, Doug Roland’s ‘Feeling Through’ asks: would you help a DeafBlind man on the street in the middle of the night? Joseph Wade reviews.
Read MoreIf Anything Happens I Love You (2020) Short Film Review
‘If Anything Happens I Love You’ from Michael Govier and Will McCormack, distributed by Netflix, is the subject of a TikTok craze and “the very best of the best” of short film in 2021. Joseph Wade reviews.
Read MoreThe Present (2021) Short Film Review
Set at one of the West Bank’s many border crossings between Palestinian territory and Israel, ‘The Present’ is a thought-provoking film nominated for Live Action Short at the 2021 Oscars.
Read MoreColette (2020) Short Film Review
Colette Marin-Catherine, a survivor of the Nazi occupation of France and sibling to a young man killed in labour camps, is the subject of this Oscar nominated Documentary. Review by Joseph Wade.
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April 26, 2021
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