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Feb 4, 2024 · A complete list of winners for the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short, including our ranking for Top 10 winners.
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The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under numerous names, since 1957.
- Session Man – 1992
- Franz Kafka’s It’S A Wonderful Life – 1995
- Election Night – 1998
- Six Shooter – 2004
- Curfew – 2012
- The Phone Call – 2013
- Helium – 2014
- Sing – 2016
- Final Thoughts
Session Manis a drama short film directed by Seth Winston. It won the Academy Award in 1992. In the film, James Remar plays a session guitarist named McQueen. He gets hired by a popular hard rock band, Raging Kings to work on some of their tracks. The band’s lead guitarist gets agitated by this and decides to quit. The band quickly replaces him wit...
Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Lifeis a satirical comedy short film directed by the Twelfth Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi. It won the Academy Award in 1995. In the film, Richard E. Grant plays the famous writer Franz Kafka, who is in constant feud with distractions all around him; keeping him from writing. The story drew parallels with Frank Capra’s it...
Election Nightis a Danish black comedy short film directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. It won the Academy Award in 1999. In the film, Peter, played by Ulrich Thomsen, is in the bar calling out racist attitudes of his friend and the bartender. He suddenly realizes that he has forgotten to cast his vote. On his way to the polling station, he encounters ...
Six Shooteris a black comedy short film directed by Martin McDonagh. It won the Academy Award in 2006. In the film, Brendan Gleeson stars as Donnelly whose wife has just passed away. On his way back from the hospital, he encounters more death, bizarre sequences and even fails to end his life. The film puts grief, loss of faith and mortality into qu...
Curfew is a dramedy short film directed by Shawn Christensen, which later laid the foundation for a full-length feature film: Before I Disappear. In the film, Shawn himself stars as Richie who is on the brink of ending his life, but it all changes when he receives a surprising call from his estranged sister, Maggie, who requests him to babysit her ...
The Phone Callis a tearjerker. Directed by Mat Kirkby, it stars Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent as main leads in the film. It won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 2015. In the film, Sally Hawkins plays a volunteer as a phone operator in a crisis centre. She receives a phone call from Stan who reveals that he is finding it hard to go ...
Heliumis a Danish drama short film directed by Anders Walter. It won the Academy Award in 2014 and stars Casper Crump as one of the leads. In the film, a young boy, Alfred, who is battling with an undisclosed terminal illness, strikes up a friendship with the hospital janitor, Enzo. Alfred dislikes the idea of going to Heaven as it sounds very dull...
Singis a Hungarian comedy-drama short film directed by Kristof Deak. It won the Academy Award in 2017 and is inspired by a true story. In the film, a little girl known as Zsófi joins a festival-winning choir at her new school. But her teacher does not allow her to sing with the rest of the choir because of her singing skills. Upon learning this, Zs...
Short films do not need to have complex stories and characters to be successful. They can be created with simple, funny and straightforward story lines to stand out from the crowd.
- Six Shooter. Even though director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, The Banshees of Inisherin) has never won an Oscar for his work on his excellent feature-length films (despite being nominated six times), he did receive one before his career as a filmmaker took off.
- Black Rider. German society has had a complicated history with racism. As a now multicultural nation, it still finds hesitance from certain sectors of society to embrace the idea of diversity, much less immigration.
- Curfew. Suicide has also been a recurring theme in Oscar-winning short films, and none has treated this complicated subject as well as the 2012 film Curfew.
- Visas and Virtue. Inspired by the real-life story of Holocaust rescuer Chiune “Sempo” Sugihara, Visas and Virtue is a touching declaration of human dignity in the face of cruelty and indifference.
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