I Am Groot
2022–2023 Marvel Studios animated shorts
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| 2024 | Won Children's and Family Emmy Awards for Outstanding Short Form Program |
| 2024 | Won Children's and Family Emmy Awards for Outstanding Sound Mixing and Sound Editing for an Animated Program |
| March 16 2024 | Nominated for Outstanding Short-Form Series (Drama or Comedy) at the NAACP Image Awards. |
| September 6 2023 | Second season of I Am Groot was released on Disney+, featuring five additional animated shorts, as part of MCU Phase Five |
| September 1 2023 | The first season of I Am Groot was made available on Marvel HQ's YouTube channel. |
| August 6 2023 | A trailer for the second season of I Am Groot was released on National Tree Day. |
| 2022 | First season of the animated series 'I Am Groot' premiered, featuring short-form stories about the young sentient tree character Groot from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. |
| August 14 2022 | I Am Groot ranked as the third highest streaming series for viewers in the United States according to Whip Media's TV Time tracking for the week ending on this date. |
| August 10 2022 | First season of I Am Groot premiered on Disney+, consisting of five animated shorts, as part of MCU Phase Four |
| August 4 2022 | Marvel Music and Hollywood Records digitally released a single featuring 'Groot Bossa Nova' and 'Groot Tuttifrutti' songs from the I Am Groot shorts. |
| July 2022 | Bradley Cooper revealed to be reprising his role as the voice of Rocket, with James Gunn voicing a wrist watch in the series. |
| July 2022 | Production was underway on a second season of five additional I Am Groot shorts, which Lepore described as being 'in the same spirit' as the first season and including ideas that did not make the initial collection. |
| July 22 2022 | The short 'Groot Takes a Bath' was shown during Marvel Studios' animation panel at San Diego Comic-Con, where a trailer for all shorts was also released. |
| July 18 2022 | The short 'Magnum Opus' debuted at the El Capitan Theatre, appearing before select screenings of Thor: Love and Thunder from July 18 to 24. |
| June 2022 | Vin Diesel confirmed to be reprising his role as the voice of Baby Groot, recording new lines for the shorts after initially planning to reuse existing 'I am Groot' recordings. |
| June 6 2022 | A 15-second television spot for the 'Groot Gets Crackin'' marketing campaign was released. |
| June 5 2022 | The first poster for the I Am Groot series was revealed, immediately trending online. |
| March 2022 | Brief footage of the I Am Groot series was shown during Disney's annual shareholders meeting. |
| November 2021 | Kirsten Lepore's involvement as head writer and director was revealed |
| August 2021 | Luma Pictures began work on the photorealistic animation for the series |
| December 2020 | Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced I Am Groot, a series of short films starring Baby Groot. Marvel Studios chose Kirsten Lepore to direct the shorts with minimal dialogue. |
| December 2020 | I Am Groot animated series was first announced by Disney+ |
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