The 97th Oscars air live March 2, 2025 at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT on ABC and Hulu in the United States and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
Here are the five trailers for this year’s Best Animated Short Film nominees, beginning with Beautiful Men:
Written and directed by Nicolas Keppens.
Synopsis: Three bald brothers travel to Istanbul to have a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
The 97th Oscars air live March 2, 2025 at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT on ABC and Hulu in the United States and in more than 200 territories worldwide.
Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang announced the nominations today at 5:30 a.m. PT, live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Best Animated Feature Film:
Flow (Sideshow/Janus Films)
Nominees to be determined
Inside Out 2 (Walt Disney)
Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen
Memoir of a Snail (IFC Films)
Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)
Nominees to be determined
The Wild Robot (Universal)
Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann
Crunchyroll has announced a new anime series adapted from Sucker Punch Productions’ critically acclaimed Ghost of Tsushima video game and its “Legends” cooperative multiplayer mode.
The anime will be produced in collaboration with Aniplex, the studio behind Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Solo Leveling. The adaptation will be directed by Takanobu Mizuno and written by Gen Urobuchi.
The series will premiere exclusively on Crunchyroll in 2027.
Synopsis: In a world blurring reality and imagination, 8-year-old Syd tries to hide his mother from Death, embarking on a hide-and-seek game as creatures of earth — Death being their predator in the ultimate form: Time.
Written and directed by Pipou Phuong Nguyen.
Release date: January 29, 2025 on Disney+.
Synopsis: The series explores Peter Parker’s origin story and early days as Spider-Man, and is set in an alternate timeline from the main films and television series of the MCU where Norman Osborn becomes Parker’s mentor instead of Tony Stark.
Created by Jeff Trammell (Craig of the Creek, The Owl House).
Synopsis: A rebellious, misfit kid trying to escape the mundanity of junior high runs away into the woods, only to be whisked away into an adventure full of excitement, hand to hand combat, monkeys, and friendship.
Written, directed, and animated by James Moutsos.
Synopsis: For months now, a group of five young soldiers have been stuck, bored, on a mission in the middle of the Afghan mountains. One day, during a support mission, the routine is finally broken.
Written and directed by Lucas Durkheim.
Director’s note: The film is inspired by the Uzbin attack. French International Security Assistance Force troops were ambushed by Afghan Taliban insurgents, with heavy casualties, in the Uzbin Valley in the Surobi District of Kabul on August 18, 2008.
With this short, I wanted to illustrate the main element in soldiers’ lives: waiting and being bored. It’s a job, of course — they are trained to kill. Perhaps not this time, but none of them is prepared to face death.
Release date: January 24, 2025 (USA).
Synopsis: Though a hero to all the animals in the forest, Vick is disappointed with his life. He has no money and no friends.
When a crazy scientist gives Vick the opportunity to move to the lap of luxury in the city, he takes the deal and unknowingly erases his two best friends, Briar and Bramble from history.
Determined to save his friends, Vick must adventure through his fractured memories before they are forgotten and the time-space continuum is ruptured forever.
Directed by Lin Yongchang.
Written by Jiang Lin, Qin Wan and Rachel Xu.
Release date: February 19, 2025 on Disney+.
Synopsis: Win or Lose follows the intertwined stories of eight different characters as they each prepare for their big championship softball game.
The series reveals what it actually feels like to be in the shoes of each character — the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, even a lovesick umpire — with funny, emotional and uniquely animated perspectives.
Release date: January 24, 2025 on Apple TV+.
Synopsis: The series stars Eva, a creative owlet who lives next door to her best friend Lucy in the woodland world of Treetopington. With big ideas and an even bigger personality, Eva goes on high-flying adventures, expressing herself in her diary along the way.
Season two takes viewers through a night in the life of Eva. Whether she’s planning a backyard campout with her friends or saving the town’s Spring Acorn Roll from hungry squirrels, Eva tackles her goals with conviction and flair.
Based on the book series “Owl Diaries” by Rebecca Elliott.
Release date: February 11, 2025 on Netflix.
Synopsis: Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter, is hired to investigate a series of attacks in a seaside village and finds himself drawn into a centuries-old conflict between humans and merpeople.
He must count on friends — old and new — to solve the mystery before the hostilities between the two kingdoms escalate into all-out war.
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is set between Episodes 5 and 6 of The Witcher Season 1.
Release date: January 16, 2025 on Netflix.
Season 2 synopsis: Now joined by the legendary Alucard, Richter Belmont and his band of vampire hunters are in a desperate race against time.
Erzsebet Báthory, the Vampire Messiah, who already seems invincible, seeks the full power of the goddess Sekhmet so she can plunge the world into endless darkness and terror.
Synopsis: Overly curious Mary visits her boyfriend’s flat for the first time, only to discover it’s been stripped bare of all personal belongings. After being denied explanation, she climbs into his head.
Written by Tessa Moult-Milewska and Matthew Dickie. Directed by Tessa Moult-Milewska.
Curiosa screened at festivals worldwide and won many awards, including the Austin Film Festival Jury Award for Best Animated Short and two Royal Television Society Awards (Best Postgraduate Animation, Best Sound).
Synopsis: A short chat with RJ Scaringe, founder and CEO of electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian, on climate change and a brighter future state.
Directed by Nicholas Maher.
Release date: February 27, 2025 (Australia).
Synopsis: Teo is a plucky young tiger and one of the last of his kind. Found abandoned and wearing a mysterious crystal necklace, he is adopted into a big, boisterous kangaroo family of travelling wrestlers.
After receiving visions from an unfamiliar land, Teo must suddenly embark on an epic quest to reconnect with his heritage and save his homeland from the clutches of destruction.
Written and directed by Chantelle Murray.
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