# Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1931–32, to the present.
From 1932 until 1970, the category was known as Short Subjects, Cartoons; and from 1971 to 1973 as Short Subjects, Animated Films. The present title began with the 46th Awards in 1974. During the first 5 decades of the award's existence, awards were presented to the producers of the shorts. Current Academy rules, however, call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film." Moreover, "[i]n the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded."
Only American films were nominated for the award until the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) was nominated for The Romance of Transportation in Canada in 1952. The first non-English-language international short to win was Zagreb Film's Ersatz (The Substitute) in 1961.
The first film to win in this category was Flowers and Trees by Walt Disney, who has since held the category's record for most nominations (39) and most wins (12). MGM's Tom and Jerry (1940–67) is the category's most lauded animated series over all, being nominated for a total of 13 Oscars and winning 7. Warner Bros.'s Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series also had a big amount of 16 Oscar nominations and winning 5. Among international studios, the NFB has the most wins in this category, with 6 Oscars. The biggest showing from Britain in this category is Nick Park, with three wins: 1 for Creature Comforts and 2 for the Wallace & Gromit series.
The Academy defines short as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits." Fifteen films are shortlisted before nominations are announced. In the listings below, the title shown in boldface was the winner of the award in that given year, followed by the other nominees for that year.

## Winners and nominees

All bars that are highlighted yellow were winners—with the title and name shown in boldface.

### 1930s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1931/32 (5th) | Flowers and Trees | Walt Disney |
| 1931/32 (5th) | It's Got Me Again! | Leon Schlesinger |
| 1931/32 (5th) | Mickey's Orphans | Walt Disney |
| 1932/33 (6th) |
| 1932/33 (6th) | Three Little Pigs | Walt Disney |
| 1932/33 (6th) | Building a Building | Walt Disney |
| 1932/33 (6th) | The Merry Old Soul | Walter Lantz |
| 1934 (7th) |
| 1934 (7th) | The Tortoise and the Hare | Walt Disney |
| 1934 (7th) | Holiday Land | Charles Mintz |
| 1934 (7th) | Jolly Little Elves | Walter Lantz |
| 1935 (8th) |
| 1935 (8th) | Three Orphan Kittens | Walt Disney |
| 1935 (8th) | The Calico Dragon | Harman-Ising |
| 1935 (8th) | Who Killed Cock Robin? | Walt Disney |
| 1936 (9th) |
| 1936 (9th) | The Country Cousin | Walt Disney |
| 1936 (9th) | The Old Mill Pond | Harman-Ising |
| 1936 (9th) | Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor | Max Fleischer |
| 1937 (10th) |
| 1937 (10th) | The Old Mill | Walt Disney |
| 1937 (10th) | Educated Fish | Max Fleischer |
| 1937 (10th) | Little Match Girl | Charles Mintz |
| 1938 (11th) |
| 1938 (11th) | Ferdinand the Bull | Walt Disney |
| 1938 (11th) | Brave Little Tailor | Walt Disney |
| 1938 (11th) | Good Scouts | Walt Disney |
| 1938 (11th) | Hunky and Spunky | Max Fleischer |
| 1938 (11th) | Mother Goose Goes Hollywood | Walt Disney |
| 1939 (12th) |
| 1939 (12th) | The Ugly Duckling | Walt Disney |
| 1939 (12th) | Detouring America | Leon Schlesinger |
| 1939 (12th) | Peace on Earth | Harman-Ising |
| 1939 (12th) | The Pointer | Walt Disney |

### 1940s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1940 (13th) | The Milky Way | Fred Quimby |
| 1940 (13th) | Puss Gets the Boot | Fred Quimby |
| 1940 (13th) | A Wild Hare | Leon Schlesinger |
| 1941 (14th) |
| 1941 (14th) | Lend a Paw | Walt Disney |
| 1941 (14th) | Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company "B" | Walter Lantz |
| 1941 (14th) | Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt | Leon Schlesinger |
| 1941 (14th) | How War Came | Lawson Harris |
| 1941 (14th) | The Night Before Christmas | Fred Quimby |
| 1941 (14th) | Rhapsody in Rivets | Leon Schlesinger |
| 1941 (14th) | Rhythm in the Ranks | George Pal |
| 1941 (14th) | The Rookie Bear | Fred Quimby |
| 1941 (14th) | Superman | Max Fleischer |
| 1941 (14th) | Truant Officer Donald | Walt Disney |
| 1942 (15th) |
| 1942 (15th) | Der Fuehrer's Face | Walt Disney |
| 1942 (15th) | All Out for "V" | Paul Terry |
| 1942 (15th) | Blitz Wolf | Fred Quimby |
| 1942 (15th) | Juke Box Jamboree | Walter Lantz |
| 1942 (15th) | Pigs in a Polka | Leon Schlesinger |
| 1942 (15th) | Tulips Shall Grow | George Pal |
| 1943 (16th) |
| 1943 (16th) | The Yankee Doodle Mouse | Fred Quimby |
| 1943 (16th) | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins | George Pal |
| 1943 (16th) | The Dizzy Acrobat | Walter Lantz |
| 1943 (16th) | Greetings Bait! | Leon Schlesinger |
| 1943 (16th) | Imagination | Dave Fleischer |
| 1943 (16th) | Reason and Emotion | Walt Disney |
| 1944 (17th) |
| 1944 (17th) | Mouse Trouble | Fred Quimby |
| 1944 (17th) | And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street | George Pal |
| 1944 (17th) | Dog, Cat and Canary | Hugh McCollum |
| 1944 (17th) | Fish Fry | Walter Lantz |
| 1944 (17th) | How to Play Football | Walt Disney |
| 1944 (17th) | My Boy, Johnny | Paul Terry |
| 1944 (17th) | Swooner Crooner | Leon Schlesinger |
| 1945 (18th) |
| 1945 (18th) | Quiet Please! | Fred Quimby |
| 1945 (18th) | Donald's Crime | Walt Disney |
| 1945 (18th) | Jasper and the Beanstalk | George Pal |
| 1945 (18th) | Life with Feathers | Edward Selzer |
| 1945 (18th) | Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life | Paul Terry |
| 1945 (18th) | The Poet and Peasant | Walter Lantz |
| 1945 (18th) | Rippling Romance | Paul Worth |
| 1946 (19th) |
| 1946 (19th) | The Cat Concerto | Fred Quimby |
| 1946 (19th) | John Henry and the Inky-Poo | George Pal |
| 1946 (19th) | Musical Moments from Chopin | Walter Lantz |
| 1946 (19th) | Squatter's Rights | Walt Disney |
| 1946 (19th) | Walky Talky Hawky | Edward Selzer |
| 1947 (20th) |
| 1947 (20th) | Tweetie Pie | Edward Selzer |
| 1947 (20th) | Chip an' Dale | Walt Disney |
| 1947 (20th) | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse | Fred Quimby |
| 1947 (20th) | Pluto's Blue Note | Walt Disney |
| 1947 (20th) | Tubby the Tuba | George Pal |
| 1948 (21st) |
| 1948 (21st) | The Little Orphan | Fred Quimby |
| 1948 (21st) | Mickey and the Seal | Walt Disney |
| 1948 (21st) | Mouse Wreckers | Edward Selzer |
| 1948 (21st) | Robin Hoodlum | United Productions of America |
| 1948 (21st) | Tea for Two Hundred | Walt Disney |
| 1949 (22nd) |
| 1949 (22nd) | For Scent-imental Reasons | Edward Selzer |
| 1949 (22nd) | Canary Row | Edward Selzer |
| 1949 (22nd) | Hatch Up Your Troubles | Fred Quimby |
| 1949 (22nd) | Magic Fluke | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1949 (22nd) | Toy Tinkers | Walt Disney |

### 1950s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1950 (23rd) | Gerald McBoing-Boing | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1950 (23rd) | Jerry's Cousin | Fred Quimby |
| 1950 (23rd) | Trouble Indemnity | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1951 (24th) |
| 1951 (24th) | The Two Mouseketeers | Fred Quimby |
| 1951 (24th) | Lambert the Sheepish Lion | Walt Disney |
| 1951 (24th) | Rooty Toot Toot | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1952 (25th) |
| 1952 (25th) | Johann Mouse | Fred Quimby |
| 1952 (25th) | Little Johnny Jet | Fred Quimby |
| 1952 (25th) | Madeline | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1952 (25th) | Pink and Blue Blues | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1952 (25th) | Romance of Transportation | Tom Daly |
| 1953 (26th) |
| 1953 (26th) | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom | Walt Disney |
| 1953 (26th) | Christopher Crumpet | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1953 (26th) | From A to Z-Z-Z-Z | Edward Selzer |
| 1953 (26th) | Rugged Bear | Walt Disney |
| 1953 (26th) | The Tell-Tale Heart | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1954 (27th) |
| 1954 (27th) | When Magoo Flew | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1954 (27th) | Crazy Mixed Up Pup | Walter Lantz |
| 1954 (27th) | Pigs Is Pigs | Walt Disney |
| 1954 (27th) | Sandy Claws | Edward Selzer |
| 1954 (27th) | Touché, Pussy Cat! | Fred Quimby |
| 1955 (28th) |
| 1955 (28th) | Speedy Gonzales | Edward Selzer |
| 1955 (28th) | Good Will to Men | Fred Quimby, William Hanna & Joseph Barbera |
| 1955 (28th) | The Legend of Rockabye Point | Walter Lantz |
| 1955 (28th) | No Hunting | Walt Disney |
| 1956 (29th) |
| 1956 (29th) | Magoo's Puddle Jumper | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1956 (29th) | Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1956 (29th) | The Jaywalker | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1957 (30th) |
| 1957 (30th) | Birds Anonymous | Edward Selzer |
| 1957 (30th) | One Droopy Knight | William Hanna & Joseph Barbera |
| 1957 (30th) | Tabasco Road | Edward Selzer |
| 1957 (30th) | Trees and Jamaica Daddy | Stephen Bosustow |
| 1957 (30th) | The Truth About Mother Goose | Walt Disney |
| 1958 (31st) |
| 1958 (31st) | Knighty Knight Bugs | John W. Burton |
| 1958 (31st) | Paul Bunyan | Walt Disney |
| 1958 (31st) | Sidney's Family Tree | William M. Weiss |
| 1959 (32nd) |
| 1959 (32nd) | Moonbird | John Hubley |
| 1959 (32nd) | Mexicali Shmoes | John W. Burton |
| 1959 (32nd) | Noah's Ark | Walt Disney |
| 1959 (32nd) | The Violinist | Ernest Pintoff |

### 1960s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1960 (33rd) | Munro | William L. Snyder |
| 1960 (33rd) | Goliath II | Walt Disney |
| 1960 (33rd) | High Note | Warner Bros. |
| 1960 (33rd) | Mouse and Garden | Warner Bros. |
| 1960 (33rd) | A Place in the Sun | František Vystrčil |
| 1961 (34th) |
| 1961 (34th) | Ersatz | Zagreb Film |
| 1961 (34th) | Aquamania | Walt Disney |
| 1961 (34th) | Beep Prepared | Chuck Jones |
| 1961 (34th) | Nelly's Folly | Chuck Jones |
| 1961 (34th) | The Pied Piper of Guadalupe | Friz Freleng |
| 1962 (35th) |
| 1962 (35th) | The Hole | Faith & John Hubley |
| 1962 (35th) | Icarus Montgolfier Wright | Jules Engel |
| 1962 (35th) | Now Hear This | Warner Bros. |
| 1962 (35th) | Self Defense—For Cowards | William L. Snyder |
| 1962 (35th) | A Symposium on Popular Songs | Walt Disney |
| 1963 (36th) |
| 1963 (36th) | The Critic | Ernest Pintoff |
| 1963 (36th) | Automania 2000 | John Halas |
| 1963 (36th) | The Game (Igra) | Dušan Vukotić |
| 1963 (36th) | My Financial Career | Tom Daly & Colin Low |
| 1963 (36th) | Pianissimo | Carmen D'Avino |
| 1964 (37th) |
| 1964 (37th) | The Pink Phink | David H. DePatie & Friz Freleng |
| 1964 (37th) | Christmas Cracker | National Film Board of Canada |
| 1964 (37th) | Here's Nudnik | William L. Snyder |
| 1964 (37th) | How to Avoid Friendship | William L. Snyder |
| 1965 (38th) |
| 1965 (38th) | The Dot and the Line | Les Goldman & Chuck Jones |
| 1965 (38th) | Clay or The Origin of Species | Eli Noyes |
| 1965 (38th) | The Thieving Magpie | Emanuele Luzzati |
| 1966 (39th) |
| 1966 (39th) | A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature | Faith & John Hubley |
| 1966 (39th) | The Drag | Wolf Koenig & Robert Verrall |
| 1966 (39th) | The Pink Blueprint | David H. DePatie & Friz Freleng |
| 1967 (40th) |
| 1967 (40th) | The Box | Fred Wolf |
| 1967 (40th) | Hypothese Beta | Jean-Charles Meunier |
| 1967 (40th) | What on Earth! | Robert Verrall & Wolf Koenig |
| 1968 (41st) |
| 1968 (41st) | Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | Walt Disney (p.n.) |
| 1968 (41st) | The House That Jack Built | Wolf Koenig & Jim MacKay |
| 1968 (41st) | The Magic Pear Tree | Jimmy Murakami |
| 1968 (41st) | Windy Day | Faith & John Hubley |
| 1969 (42nd) |
| 1969 (42nd) | It's Tough to Be a Bird | Ward Kimball |
| 1969 (42nd) | Of Men and Demons | Faith & John Hubley |
| 1969 (42nd) | Walking | Ryan Larkin |

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1970 (43rd) | Is It Always Right to Be Right? | Nick Bosustow |
| 1970 (43rd) | The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam | Dale Case & Robert Mitchell |
| 1970 (43rd) | The Shepherd | Cameron Guess |
| 1971 (44th) |
| 1971 (44th) | The Crunch Bird | Ted Petok |
| 1971 (44th) | Evolution | Michael Mills |
| 1971 (44th) | The Selfish Giant | Gerald Potterton & Peter Sander |
| 1972 (45th) |
| 1972 (45th) | A Christmas Carol | Richard Williams |
| 1972 (45th) | Kama Sutra Rides Again | Bob Godfrey |
| 1972 (45th) | Tup Tup | Nedeljko Dragić |
| 1973 (46th) |
| 1973 (46th) | Frank Film | Frank Mouris |
| 1973 (46th) | The Legend of John Henry | David Adams & Nick Bosustow |
| 1973 (46th) | Pulcinella | Guilo Gianini & Emanuele Luzzati |
| 1974 (47th) |
| 1974 (47th) | Closed Mondays | Bob Gardiner & Will Vinton |
| 1974 (47th) | The Family That Dwelt Apart | Yvon Mallette & Robert Verrall |
| 1974 (47th) | Hunger | Peter Foldes & René Jodoin |
| 1974 (47th) | Voyage to Next | Faith & John Hubley |
| 1974 (47th) | Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 1975 (48th) |
| 1975 (48th) | Great | Bob Godfrey |
| 1975 (48th) | Kick Me | Robert Swarthe |
| 1975 (48th) | Monsieur Pointu | René Jodoin, André Leduc & Bernard Longpré |
| 1975 (48th) | Sisyphus | Marcell Jankovics |
| 1976 (49th) |
| 1976 (49th) | Leisure | Suzanne Baker |
| 1976 (49th) | Dedalo | Manfredo Manfredi |
| 1976 (49th) | The Street | Guy Glover & Caroline Leaf |
| 1977 (50th) |
| 1977 (50th) | The Sand Castle | Co Hoedeman |
| 1977 (50th) | The Bead Game | Ishu Patel |
| 1977 (50th) | A Doonesbury Special | Faith, John Hubley (p.n.) & Garry Trudeau |
| 1977 (50th) | Jimmy the C | Robert Grossman, James Picker & Craig Whitaker |
| 1978 (51st) |
| 1978 (51st) | Special Delivery | Eunice Macaulay & John Weldon |
| 1978 (51st) | Oh My Darling | Nico Crama |
| 1978 (51st) | Rip Van Winkle | Will Vinton |
| 1979 (52nd) |
| 1979 (52nd) | Every Child | Derek Lamb |
| 1979 (52nd) | Dream Doll | Bob Godfrey & Zlatko Grgić |
| 1979 (52nd) | It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House | Paul Fierlinger |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1980 (53rd) | The Fly | Ferenc Rofusz |
| 1980 (53rd) | All Nothing | Frédéric Back |
| 1980 (53rd) | History of the World in Three Minutes Flat | Michael Mills |
| 1981 (54th) |
| 1981 (54th) | Crac | Frédéric Back |
| 1981 (54th) | The Creation | Will Vinton |
| 1981 (54th) | The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin | Janet Perlman |
| 1982 (55th) |
| 1982 (55th) | Tango | Zbigniew Rybczyński |
| 1982 (55th) | The Great Cognito | Will Vinton |
| 1982 (55th) | The Snowman | John Coates & Dianne Jackson |
| 1983 (56th) |
| 1983 (56th) | Sundae in New York | Jimmy Picker |
| 1983 (56th) | Mickey's Christmas Carol | Burny Mattinson |
| 1983 (56th) | Sound of Sunshine – Sound of Rain | Eda Godel Hallinan |
| 1984 (57th) |
| 1984 (57th) | Charade | Jon Minnis |
| 1984 (57th) | Doctor DeSoto | Morton Schindel & Michael Sporn |
| 1984 (57th) | Paradise | Ishu Patel |
| 1985 (58th) |
| 1985 (58th) | Anna & Bella | Cilia van Dijk |
| 1985 (58th) | The Big Snit | Richard Condie & Michael Scott |
| 1985 (58th) | Second Class Mail | Alison Snowden |
| 1986 (59th) |
| 1986 (59th) | A Greek Tragedy | Willem Thijsen & Linda Van Tulden |
| 1986 (59th) | The Frog, the Dog and the Devil | Bob Stenhouse |
| 1986 (59th) | Luxo Jr. | John Lasseter & Bill Reeves |
| 1987 (60th) |
| 1987 (60th) | The Man Who Planted Trees | Frédéric Back |
| 1987 (60th) | George and Rosemary | Eunice Macaulay |
| 1987 (60th) | Your Face | Bill Plympton |
| 1988 (61st) |
| 1988 (61st) | Tin Toy | John Lasseter & Bill Reeves |
| 1988 (61st) | The Cat Came Back | Cordell Barker |
| 1988 (61st) | Technological Threat | Brian Jennings & Bill Kroyer |
| 1989 (62nd) |
| 1989 (62nd) | Balance | Wolfgang & Christoph Lauenstein |
| 1989 (62nd) | The Cow | Aleksandr Petrov |
| 1989 (62nd) | The Hill Farm | Mark Baker |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1990 (63rd) | Creature Comforts | Nick Park |
| 1990 (63rd) | A Grand Day Out | Nick Park |
| 1990 (63rd) | Grasshoppers | Bruno Bozzetto |
| 1991 (64th) |
| 1991 (64th) | Manipulation | Daniel Greaves |
| 1991 (64th) | Blackfly | Christopher Hinton |
| 1991 (64th) | Strings | Wendy Tilby |
| 1992 (65th) |
| 1992 (65th) | Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase | Joan C. Gratz |
| 1992 (65th) | Adam | Peter Lord |
| 1992 (65th) | Reci, Reci, Reci... | Michaela Pavlátová |
| 1992 (65th) | The Sandman | Paul Berry |
| 1992 (65th) | Screen Play | Barry Purves |
| 1993 (66th) |
| 1993 (66th) | The Wrong Trousers | Nick Park |
| 1993 (66th) | Blindscape | Stephen Palmer |
| 1993 (66th) | The Mighty River | Frédéric Back & Hubert Tison |
| 1993 (66th) | Small Talk | Kevin Baldwin & Bob Godfrey |
| 1993 (66th) | The Village | Mark Baker |
| 1994 (67th) |
| 1994 (67th) | Bob's Birthday | David Fine & Alison Snowden |
| 1994 (67th) | The Big Story | David Stoten & Tim Watts |
| 1994 (67th) | The Janitor | Vanessa Schwartz |
| 1994 (67th) | The Monk and the Fish | Michaël Dudok de Wit |
| 1994 (67th) | Triangle | Erica Russell |
| 1995 (68th) |
| 1995 (68th) | A Close Shave | Nick Park |
| 1995 (68th) | The Chicken from Outer Space | John R. Dilworth |
| 1995 (68th) | The End | Robin Bargar & Chris Landreth |
| 1995 (68th) | Gagarin | Alexij Kharitidi |
| 1995 (68th) | Runaway Brain | Chris Bailey |
| 1996 (69th) |
| 1996 (69th) | Quest | Tyron Montgomery & Thomas Stellmach |
| 1996 (69th) | Canhead | Timothy Hittle & Chris Peterson |
| 1996 (69th) | La Salla | Richard Condie |
| 1996 (69th) | Wat's Pig | Peter Lord |
| 1997 (70th) |
| 1997 (70th) | Geri's Game | Jan Pinkava |
| 1997 (70th) | Famous Fred | Joanna Quinn |
| 1997 (70th) | The Mermaid | Aleksandr Petrov |
| 1997 (70th) | The Old Lady and the Pigeons | Sylvain Chomet |
| 1997 (70th) | Redux Riding Hood | Steve Moore |
| 1998 (71st) |
| 1998 (71st) | Bunny | Chris Wedge |
| 1998 (71st) | The Canterbury Tales | Christopher Grace & Jonathan Myerson |
| 1998 (71st) | Jolly Roger | Mark Baker |
| 1998 (71st) | More | Steven Kalafer & Mark Osborne |
| 1998 (71st) | When Life Departs | Stefan Fjeldmark & Karsten Kiilerich |
| 1999 (72nd) |
| 1999 (72nd) | The Old Man and the Sea | Aleksandr Petrov |
| 1999 (72nd) | 3 Misses | Paul Driessen |
| 1999 (72nd) | Humdrum | Peter Peake |
| 1999 (72nd) | My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts | Torill Kove |
| 1999 (72nd) | When the Day Breaks | Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 2000 (73rd) | Father and Daughter | Michaël Dudok de Wit |
| 2000 (73rd) | The Periwig-Maker | Steffen & Annette Schäffler |
| 2000 (73rd) | Rejected | Don Hertzfeldt |
| 2001 (74th) |
| 2001 (74th) | For the Birds | Ralph Eggleston |
| 2001 (74th) | Fifty Percent Grey | Seamus Byrne & Ruairí Robinson |
| 2001 (74th) | Give Up Yer Aul Sins | Cathal Gaffney & Darragh O'Connell |
| 2001 (74th) | Strange Invaders | Cordell Barker |
| 2001 (74th) | Stubble Trouble | Joseph E. Merideth |
| 2002 (75th) |
| 2002 (75th) | The ChubbChubbs! | Eric Armstrong |
| 2002 (75th) | The Cathedral | Tomek Baginski |
| 2002 (75th) | Das Rad | Chris Stenner & Heidi Wittlinger |
| 2002 (75th) | Mike's New Car | Pete Docter & Roger L. Gould |
| 2002 (75th) | Mt. Head | Kōji Yamamura |
| 2003 (76th) |
| 2003 (76th) | Harvie Krumpet | Adam Elliot |
| 2003 (76th) | Boundin' | Bud Luckey |
| 2003 (76th) | Destino | Roy E. Disney & Dominique Monféry |
| 2003 (76th) | Gone Nutty | John C. Donkin & Carlos Saldanha |
| 2003 (76th) | Nibbles | Chris Hinton |
| 2004 (77th) |
| 2004 (77th) | Ryan | Chris Landreth |
| 2004 (77th) | Birthday Boy | Andrew Gregory & Sejong Park |
| 2004 (77th) | Gopher Broke | Jeff Fowler & Tim Miller |
| 2004 (77th) | Guard Dog | Bill Plympton |
| 2004 (77th) | Lorenzo | Baker Bloodworth & Mike Gabriel |
| 2005 (78th) |
| 2005 (78th) | The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation | John Canemaker & Peggy Stern |
| 2005 (78th) | 9 | Shane Acker |
| 2005 (78th) | Badgered | Sharon Colman |
| 2005 (78th) | The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello | Anthony Lucas |
| 2005 (78th) | One Man Band | Mark Andrews & Andrew Jimenez |
| 2006 (79th) |
| 2006 (79th) | The Danish Poet | Torill Kove |
| 2006 (79th) | Lifted | Gary Rydstrom |
| 2006 (79th) | The Little Matchgirl | Roger Allers & Don Hahn |
| 2006 (79th) | Maestro | Géza M. Tóth |
| 2006 (79th) | No Time for Nuts | Chris Renaud & Mike Thurmeier |
| 2007 (80th) |
| 2007 (80th) | Peter & the Wolf | Suzie Templeton & Hugh Welchman |
| 2007 (80th) | Even Pigeons Go to Heaven | Samuel Tourneux & Simon Vanesse |
| 2007 (80th) | I Met the Walrus | Josh Raskin |
| 2007 (80th) | Madame Tutli-Putli | Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski |
| 2007 (80th) | My Love | Aleksandr Petrov |
| 2008 (81st) |
| 2008 (81st) | La Maison en Petits Cubes | Kunio Katō |
| 2008 (81st) | Lavatory – Lovestory | Konstantin Bronzit |
| 2008 (81st) | Oktapodi | Thierry Marchand & Emud Mokhberi |
| 2008 (81st) | Presto | Doug Sweetland |
| 2008 (81st) | This Way Up | Adam Foulkes & Alan Smith |
| 2009 (82nd) |
| 2009 (82nd) | Logorama | Nicolas Schmerkin |
| 2009 (82nd) | French Roast | Fabrice Joubert |
| 2009 (82nd) | Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty | Darragh O'Connell & Nicky Phelan |
| 2009 (82nd) | The Lady and the Reaper | Javier Recio Gracia |
| 2009 (82nd) | A Matter of Loaf and Death | Nick Park |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 2010 (83rd) | The Lost Thing | Andrew Ruhemann & Shaun Tan |
| 2010 (83rd) | Day & Night | Teddy Newton |
| 2010 (83rd) | The Gruffalo | Max Lang & Jakob Schuh |
| 2010 (83rd) | Let's Pollute | Geefwee Boedoe |
| 2010 (83rd) | Madagascar, a Journey Diary | Bastien Dubois |
| 2011 (84th) |
| 2011 (84th) | The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore | William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg |
| 2011 (84th) | La Luna | Enrico Casarosa |
| 2011 (84th) | A Morning Stroll | Sue Goffe & Grant Orchard |
| 2011 (84th) | Sunday | Patrick Doyon |
| 2011 (84th) | Wild Life | Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby |
| 2012 (85th) |
| 2012 (85th) | Paperman | John Kahrs |
| 2012 (85th) | Adam and Dog | Minkyu Lee |
| 2012 (85th) | Fresh Guacamole | PES |
| 2012 (85th) | Head Over Heels | Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly & Timothy Reckart |
| 2012 (85th) | The Longest Daycare | David Silverman |
| 2013 (86th) |
| 2013 (86th) | Mr Hublot | Laurent Witz & Alexandre Espigares |
| 2013 (86th) | Feral | Daniel Sousa & Dan Golden |
| 2013 (86th) | Get a Horse! | Lauren MacMullan & Dorothy McKim |
| 2013 (86th) | Possessions | Shuhei Morita |
| 2013 (86th) | Room on the Broom | Max Lang & Jan Lachauer |
| 2014 (87th) |
| 2014 (87th) | Feast | Patrick Osborne & Kristina Reed |
| 2014 (87th) | The Bigger Picture | Christopher Hees & Daisy Jacobs |
| 2014 (87th) | The Dam Keeper | Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi |
| 2014 (87th) | Me and My Moulton | Torill Kove |
| 2014 (87th) | A Single Life | Joris Oprins |
| 2015 (88th) |
| 2015 (88th) | Bear Story | Pato Escala Pierart & Gabriel Osorio Vargas |
| 2015 (88th) | Prologue | Imogen Sutton & Richard Williams |
| 2015 (88th) | Sanjay's Super Team | Sanjay Patel & Nicole Paradis Grindle |
| 2015 (88th) | We Can't Live Without Cosmos | Konstantin Bronzit |
| 2015 (88th) | World of Tomorrow | Don Hertzfeldt |
| 2016 (89th) |
| 2016 (89th) | Piper | Alan Barillaro & Marc Sondheimer |
| 2016 (89th) | Blind Vaysha | Theodore Ushev |
| 2016 (89th) | Borrowed Time | Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj |
| 2016 (89th) | Pear Cider and Cigarettes | Cara Speller & Robert Valley |
| 2016 (89th) | Pearl | Patrick Osborne |
| 2017 (90th) |
| 2017 (90th) | Dear Basketball | Glen Keane & Kobe Bryant |
| 2017 (90th) | Garden Party | Victor Caire & Gabriel Grapperon |
| 2017 (90th) | Lou | Dave Mullins & Dana Murray |
| 2017 (90th) | Negative Space | Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter |
| 2017 (90th) | Revolting Rhymes | Jakob Schuh & Jan Lachauer |
| 2018 (91st) |
| 2018 (91st) | Bao | Becky Neiman-Cobb & Domee Shi |
| 2018 (91st) | Animal Behaviour | David Fine & Alison Snowden |
| 2018 (91st) | Late Afternoon | Louise Bagnall & Nuria González Blanco |
| 2018 (91st) | One Small Step | Andrew Chesworth & Bobby Pontillas |
| 2018 (91st) | Weekends | Trevor Jimenez |
| 2019 (92nd) |
| 2019 (92nd) | Hair Love | Matthew A. Cherry & Karen Rupert Toliver |
| 2019 (92nd) | Daughter | Daria Kashcheeva |
| 2019 (92nd) | Kitbull | Kathryn Hendrickson & Rosana Sullivan |
| 2019 (92nd) | Mémorable | Bruno Collet & Jean-François Le Corre |
| 2019 (92nd) | Sister | Siqi Song |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 2020/21 (93rd) | If Anything Happens I Love You | Michael Govier & Will McCormack |
| 2020/21 (93rd) | Burrow | Michael Capbarat & Madeline Sharafian |
| 2020/21 (93rd) | Genius Loci | Adrien Mérigeau & Amaury Ovise |
| 2020/21 (93rd) | Opera | Erick Oh [de] |
| 2020/21 (93rd) | Yes-People | Arnar Gunnarsson & Gísli Darri Halldórsson |
| 2021 (94th) | The Windshield Wiper | Alberto Mielgo & Leo Sanchez |
| 2021 (94th) | Affairs of the Art | Joanna Quinn and Les Mills |
| 2021 (94th) | Bestia | Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz |
| 2021 (94th) | Boxballet | Anton Dyakov |
| 2021 (94th) | Robin Robin | Dan Ojari and Mikey Please |
| 2022 (95th) |
| 2022 (95th) | The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud |
| 2022 (95th) | The Flying Sailor | Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby |
| 2022 (95th) | Ice Merchants | João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano |
| 2022 (95th) | My Year of Dicks | Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon |
| 2022 (95th) | An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It | Lachlan Pendragon |
| 2023 (96th) |
| 2023 (96th) | War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko | Dave Mullins and Brad Booker |
| 2023 (96th) | Letter to a Pig | Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter |
| 2023 (96th) | Ninety-Five Senses | Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess |
| 2023 (96th) | Our Uniform | Yegane Moghaddam |
| 2023 (96th) | Pachyderme | Stéphanie Clément [de] and Marc Rius |
| 2024 (97th) |
| 2024 (97th) | In the Shadow of the Cypress | Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi |
| 2024 (97th) | Beautiful Men | Nicolas Keppens and Brecht Van Elslande |
| 2024 (97th) | Magic Candies | Daisuke Nishio and Takashi Washio |
| 2024 (97th) | Wander to Wonder | Nina Gantz and Stienette Bosklopper |
| 2024 (97th) | Yuck! | Loïc Espuche and Juliette Marquet |