HollyShorts Becomes Oscar-Qualifying Festival In Fourth Category, Adding Documentary Short
deadline.comThe upcoming HollyShorts Film Festival in Hollywood will now be an official Oscar qualifying festival in not three but four categories.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences notified HollyShorts that the winner of the festival’s prize for Documentary Short will now qualify for Oscar consideration.
HollyShorts’ Best Short Film Grand Prize, Best Short Animation and Best Short Live Action already qualify for the Oscars. The 19th edition of HollyShorts is set for August 10-20 in Hollywood.
It’s “known for being the catalyst for films to qualify for and go on to win Oscars,” a release from the festival noted. Riz Ahmed’s The Long Goodbye, directed by Aneil Karia and written by Karia and Ahmed, won an Oscar-qualifying award at HollyShorts and went on to claim the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short in 2022.
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