It just happens to be wrapped in a package so adorable you want to eat it. Directed by Domee Shi, “Bao” centers on a Chinese mother with a case of empty nest syndrome. She gets a second chance ...

28-year-old Domee Shi. Bao tells the story of a Chinese empty-nester mom who gets a surprise one day when one of her dumplings turns into an adorable baby boy. The story includes several amusing ...

The animated short hit the big screen alongside "The Incredibles 2" — and Food & Wine caught up with "Bao" director Domee Shi to get the scoop on her family's dumpling recipe. Here it is.

Bao was written and directed by Domee Shi, who started out as an intern in Pixar's storyboarding department seven years ago. Here, the 28-year-old Shi — who's also the first female director of a ...

This interview originally ran in conjunction with Bao’s premiere at New York’s ... more with the mother than with the child here? Domee Shi: Definitely. I’m like you; I’m not a mother ...

Pixar’s attention to detail in its animated films is well-known, from the way a blade of grass sways in the wind to a wisp of fuzz on a sleeve. But for its latest feature, “Elio,” directors Domee Shi ...

The 20th helmer to take on a Pixar short since the mid-1980s, and the the first woman to do so, Bao‘s Domee Shi is now on the path to making her feature debut, with the backing of one of the ...

Domee Shi accepted the award alongside "Bao" producer Becky Neiman Cobb. "Bao," Pixar's short film about an adorable Chinese dumpling that comes to life, just won the 2019 Oscar for best animated ...

In the midst of this scrutiny comes Domee Shi, the Chinese-Canadian director of “Bao,” who could become only the fourth Asian animation director ever to win an Oscar, and the first Asian woman ...

A version of this story about Domee Shi appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. “Bao” is the 15th Pixar short nominated for an Oscar, but it’s the first of ...