Awards Daily Tv's Water Cooler Podcast

Ahhhh, the shortlists. Most of Film Twitter tuned into Tuesday’s announcement to see what feature films would get a leg up (Wicked: For Good) and what the new Best Casting category would look like. For people like me and ShortStick founder, Brandon MacMurray, we wanted to see what films made an impact in the short film categories. Across all three short film categories–Animated, Documentary and Live Action–nearly 500 films qualified, so parsing through so many shorts was no small feat. Brandon and I give our reactions to what we were happy to see and what we were bummed to find out didn’t make the cut. Alexander Farah’s tender, lovely One Day This Kid was both of our biggest disappointment in terms of omissions–stream it on Criterion Channel now! We chatted hours after the shortlists dropped, so these reactions are very fresh! Make sure you follow Brandon and his team over at Shortstick for predictions, interviews, and upcoming coverage of festivals throughout the year. Cli