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Oscar Nominated Short Films Pack an Emotional Punch, From Ethnic Cleansing to Animal Poaching and Everything in Between
Oscars 2025: Here’s a look at the nominees in the documentary shorts, animated shorts and live-action shorts categories
In Mundhra’s Paramount+ doc “I Am Ready, Warden,” the director follows John Henry Ramirez, a Texas man on death row who spends his final days preparing a message for his victim’s son while saying goodbye to his own. It didn’t take long for the country to repeat that feat this year by scoring a nomination with Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani’s 2D short “In the Shadow of the Cypress,” about a captain suffering from PTSD. In late 2023, the duo debuted their now Oscar-nominated “A Lien,” a timely story about a young couple navigating the quagmire of the U.S. immigration system as they rush to a hugely important green card hearing with their daughter in tow.
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