UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the New York International Children's Film Festival's “Kid Flix Mix,” an adventurous showcase of the world's best new short films and animations for kids, at 11 a.m.

The best animated space movies for kids will introduce your little ones to the concept of intergalactic travel while allowing you to kick back and enjoy some entertainment, too. There are few media ...

Featuring nudity, sexuality and even more shocking content, this year’s Academy Award-nominated animated short films are definitely not for kids. But they will enchant and mesmerize everyone else.

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the creation of two separate branches, dividing the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch into two distinct ...

Cardboard is the story of an overhwhelmed, single dad pig who moves his piglets into a rundown trailer park, fearing he’s failed his family. The gently comedic short, based on Vine’s own experiences ...

Two decades ago, in 2006, the team at ShortsTV transformed one of the key Oscar races, securing the rights to release all five finalists in the Academy Awards' animated short category on the big ...

The Academy's disdain for animation is a matter of record, sniffily referred to as "kids' stuff" by Oscar hosts who would run screaming if presented with the scatological eschatology of a Mad God. But ...

The animation branch, to which approximately 700 Academy members will belong, will be represented by two governors, and the short films branch, to which some 200 members will belong, will be ...

There remains a bit of a stigma around animated films in the Western world, which is a shame, in all honesty. While a country like Japan has long ago realized that animation could be used to make ...