short subject

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Recent Examples of short subject Remember that depth of field is almost non-existent at short subject distances with a wide aperture. PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024 Full Frame is also a qualifying festival for the Academy Award documentary film short subject. Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024 Richard Trank is an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has written and directed 14 feature and short subject documentaries. Richard Trank, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024 Indeed, the Academy created a short subjects branch in 1941, back when short films preceded feature films in many theaters. Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for short subject
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Noun
  • Olivia Rodrigo went vintage for Halloween this year, opting to dress up as the iconic animated cartoon character, Betty Boop.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2022
  • To the narcissist, all other people are cardboard cutouts, two-dimensional animated cartoon characters, or symbols.
    Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 14 June 2022
Noun
  • Abraham’s performance in season 2 of The White Lotus earned him a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor in a limited series, anthology or motion picture made for television.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The motion picture business saw revenue and segment profit decreased to $309 million (from $443 million) and $83.6 million (from $100.4 million), respectively, on tough comparisons with last year’s theatrical releases of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Saw X.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The story is deceptively simple, but the way the animators create moving pictures to mimic medieval-style stained glass is singular.
    Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
  • Throughout all of his work, perhaps most memorably in the warped noir of his television series Twin Peaks, Lynch steered composers to create music as inexplicably haunting as his moving pictures.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • As a result, the auricular muscles became weaker and are now considered a vestigial feature—an evolutionary leftover that’s no longer necessary but hasn’t completely disappeared.
    Clarissa Brincat, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Volusion has a few interesting marketing features, like its Google integration.
    Robert Anderson, PCMAG, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • His figurine was outfitted in shorts and a backward baseball cap, with a hoodie tied around its waist; Mr. Bowen’s wore a white collared shirt and sneakers.
    Tammy LaGorce, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • While chicken wings are Hooters’ signature menu item, the eatery is best known for its servers, who wear tight orange shorts and white T-shirts bearing the company’s name.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • What To Know The Netflix documentary series American Murder: Gabby Petito will include text messages, video footage and excerpts from Petito's personal journals.
    Marni Rose McFall, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Yet in the best documentary category voters swerved the Palestinian-Israeli co-production No Other Land, the Oscar frontrunner, to award Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, which is not even nominated.
    Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The show also announced that Alan Cumming will have a guest role in the season’s second episode, voicing a cartoon character named Mr. Ring-A-Ding who breaks out of his celluloid world.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Spiteful buys plain aluminum cans and applies an array of colorful cartoon labels during the packaging process to market its portfolio.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025

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“Short subject.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short%20subject. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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