Welcome to Cartoon Brew’s series of spotlights focusing on the animated shorts that have qualified for the 2026 Oscars. The films in this series have qualified through one of multiple routes: by ...

As Awards season continues to ramp up, another of the year’s highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning animated shorts has arrived online for audiences to enjoy on demand. Retirement Plan by John Kelly, ...

Who among us hasn’t dabbled in a little wishful thinking about the future until they’re shaken to the core by the uncertainties of it all while covered in cold sweat? In the Oscar-qualifying animated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The gently comic film follows Ray (Gleeson), a man navigating the overload and fatigue of midlife and mentally wheeling through ...

Still from ‘Retirement Plan.’ Photo Credit: John Kelly. “Retirement Plan” is an animated short film by John Kelly, which explores the facts of life. It was directed by John Kelly, who wrote the script ...

This morning, the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards were announced in 24 categories at 5:30 a.m. Here are this year’s animation and visual... Retirement Plan, a humorously existential 2D ...

We invited the filmmakers behind each of this year’s 15 Oscar-shortlisted animated shorts to share their favorite shot from their film and explain why it’s special to them. Nomination voting started ...

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has a Retirement Plan. The streamer has added John Kelly's Oscar-shortlisted animated short film to its service in the UK and across Europe. Putting more wind in the film's sails, ...