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2025 Oscars: Diverse Nominations from Animation to Live Action

1/26/2026

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Oscar Nominees Announced

Lee Knight's A Friend of Dorothy is among this year's Oscar nominees.
Israeli filmmaker Meyer Levinson-Blount's Butcher's Stain is nominated for Best Live Action Short.
Butcher's Stain has won a Silver Medal at the 2025 Student Academy Awards.
The Girl Who Cried Pearls, stop-motion film by Maciek Szczerbowski and Chris Lavis, is nominated for Best Animated Short.
The film is set in early 20th-century Montreal and explores desire and consequence.

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Knight Celebrates Oscar Nomination

Lee Knight, a writer-director from Stanmore, Middlesex, expressed feeling utterly overwhelmed by the Oscar nomination for his short film A Friend of Dorothy.
The film stars Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Fry and follows an elderly widow after a teenager kicks a football into her garden.
The project is inspired by Knight's friendship with a lonely neighbor and explores loneliness.
Age UK supports the production, underscoring loneliness among older people.

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Oscar Nominees Announced

Lee Knight's A Friend of Dorothy is among this year's Oscar nominees.
Israeli filmmaker Meyer Levinson-Blount's Butcher's Stain is nominated for Best Live Action Short.
Butcher's Stain has won a Silver Medal at the 2025 Student Academy Awards.
The Girl Who Cried Pearls, stop-motion film by Maciek Szczerbowski and Chris Lavis, is nominated for Best Animated Short.
The film is set in early 20th-century Montreal and explores desire and consequence.

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