"The Girl Who Cried Pearls" has won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film at the 2026 Academy Awards. The Canadian film is about a poor boy who falls in love with a girl who cries those gemstones, ...

Toronto's Maggie Kang earned the Academy Award for best animated feature, while Montreal artists Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski were second-time winners for best animated short. By Etan Vlessing ...

Still from 'Retirement Plan.' Photo Credit: John Kelly. Still from 'Retirement Plan.' Photo Credit: John Kelly. Filmmaker John Kelly chatted about his 2026 Academy Award nomination for “Best Animated ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...