Name: 2025 Oscar® Nominated Short Films: Animation
Start: 2025-02-14T16:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-14T17:30:00-06:00
Location: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

$2025 Oscar\u00ae Nominated Short Films: Animation$

Oscar Shorts: Animation
Members: $10 | Public: $13
Total Run Time: 86 minutes
Atkins Auditorium
Please note: These films are unrated. Viewer discretion advised.
View the short films nominated for Best Animated Short Film at this year’s Academy Awards.
Beautiful Men
Dir. Nicolas Keppens
18 min. Dutch w/ English subtitles
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
In the Shadows of the Cypress
Dir. Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani
20 min. (No spoken language)
Living in a house by the sea with his daughter, a former captain who has post-traumatic stress disorder leads a tough and secluded life.
Magic Candies
Dir. Daisuke Nishio
21 min,, Japanese w/ English subtitles
The other kids never ask Dong-Dong to play, but he’s fine just playing marbles on his own. Until one day, he buys a bag of colorful candies and begins to discover new voices and perspectives
Wander to Wonder
Dir. Nina Gantz
14 min., English
In the 1980s, Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton starred in the children's television program Wander to Wonder. They are left alone in the studio after the show's originator passed away.
Yuck!
Dir. Loïc Espuche
13 min., French w/ English subtitles
Yuck! Couples kissing on the mouth are gross. Little Léo laughs at them, just like all the other kids at summer camp. But he has a secret he won’t tell his friends: Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.