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Excerpted from 'Get Out' wins Bradbury Award plus my take on the Retro Hugo nominees at Crazy Eddie's Motie News.

Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form

Bambi, written by Perce Pearce, Larry Morey, et al., directed by David D. Hand et al. (Walt Disney Productions)
Cat People, written by DeWitt Bodeen, directed by Jacques Tourneur (RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.)
The Ghost of Frankenstein, written by W. Scott Darling, directed by Erle C. Kenton (Universal Pictures)
I Married a Witch, written by Robert Pirosh and Marc Connelly, directed by René Clair (Cinema Guild Productions / Paramount Pictures)
Invisible Agent, written by Curtis Siodmak, directed by Edwin L. Marin (Frank Lloyd Productions / Universal Pictures)
Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, written by Laurence Stallings, directed by Zoltan Korda (Alexander Korda Films, Inc. / United Artists)
Out of all these, I'd vote for "Bambi." Now only is it the one I'm most familiar with, it's also the one I think has stood the test of time. After that, I might think "Cat People" would have the best chance.

Before I move to literature nominees, I note that all the nominees are "short form." Today, that is reserved for television episodes or musical recordings. All of the nominees for dramatic presentation are movies, but they are also all less than 90 minutes. That's the cutoff for short form, which is why "Westworld" wasn't nominated last year; the first season's best episode was 90 minutes long and why these six movies qualify for the short form category.

It turns out that Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book was 110 minutes long, so it didn't qualify for "short form," but all the rest did. I don't think it will be hurt by stuffing it into too small a category box.