2026 Oscar-Winning Short Film: The Singers
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?

Manoel de Oliveira's final work revisits one of his earliest films and celebrates a century of industrialization in Portugal.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
This is ambitious horror filmmaking, and in a lot of ways, I fully admire its ambitions. For me, the film’s sloppiness defines its overall quality.
The beating heart of this film is the relationship between Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse.
This magical reboot introduces a new set of Charmed ones, much to the ire of fans of the original series.
Written and directed by Eva Victor, who also plays Agnes, the main character, Sorry, Baby is slow and artsy, but extremely effective. It shows how the trauma developed after a sexual assault has a ripple effect and loudly echoes in the victim and her life for years after.
Treated like a granter of wishes for those earning out of retelling the same tragedy, Marilyn looks like she's caged in different stages of trauma for us to stare at, instead of someone we’ve finally allowed to rest in peace.