Branch Selects

In person: Academy Governor Gerry Quist

Selected by the Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch

In person: choreographer Mandy Moore

Selected by the Production and Technology Branch

Selected by the Film Editors Branch

In person: Academy Governor Hannah Minghella and actor/filmmaker Max Minghella

Selected by the Executives Branch

Selected by the Music Branch

Selected by the Producers Branch

Selected by the Production Design Branch

The Academy is celebrating Asian American, Native American, and Pacific Islander Heritage month with this selection of short films featuring Asian American filmmakers and stories. The evening includes two animated films, Ishu Patel’s Oscar-nominated Bead Game (1977), and Soar (2014), from filmmaker Alyce Tzue. Arthur Dong’s Oscar-nominated documentary short, Sewing Woman (1982), tells the life story of the filmmaker’s mother, while Sean Wang (Dìdi) was nominated for his documentary Nai Nai & Wài Pó (2023), depicting the close friendship of his elderly grandmothers. Jon M. Chu (Wicked, 2024) won a DGA Student Film Award for his musical short Gwai Lo: The Little Foreigner (2002). Filmmaker Andrew Ahn (Fire Island, 2022) made his short film Dol (First Birthday, 2011) partly as a way of coming out to his parents. Masami Kawai’s Nami (2015) depicts a day in the life of a grieving widow in her journey across Los Angeles. In Amrita Singh’s Winning in America (2021), a teenage girl faces the challenges of a spelling bee and her coach father.

Selected by the Sound Branch

In person: visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren and special effects creator Shane Mahan

Selected by the Marketing and Public Relations Branch