^{Credit: The Three Sisters (Polydont Films), Forevergreen (Nathan Engelhardt, Jeremy Spears), Butterfly (Sacrebleu Productions), Retirement Plan (Antidote Films), The Girl Who Cried Pearls (National Film Board of Canada)}

If you want to experience this year's Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short, as well as the Best Live-Action and Documentary Shorts, on the big screen, Roadside Attractions has you covered. According to IndieWire, Roadside and writer/director/actor Taika Waititi are collaborating to present all fifteen Oscar-nominated shorts theatrically. Each of the three categories will be given its own theatrical presentation. Waititi, who won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 2019's Jojo Rabbit, will serve as a presenter for the program. The New Zealand filmmaker is no stranger to shorts. His film Two Cars, One Night scored a Best Live-Action Short nomination in 2004. Waititi also lent his voice to the titular rabbit in Spencer Susser's stop-motion film, Save Ralph, which was shortlisted for Best Animated Short consideration in 2022. 

 

 

 

 

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Here's a breakdown of this year's fifteen Oscar-nominated shorts: 

Best Animated Short

Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Best Live-Action Short

Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers
Two People Exchanging Saliva

Best Documentary Short

All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: ‘Were and Are Gone’
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness

You can catch them all in theaters starting February 20, 2026. 

Nick Spake is the Author of Bright & Shiny: A History of Animation at Award Shows Volumes 1 and 2. Available Now!