At the Mainichi Film Awards, "" won the Animation Film Award and "Millennium Actress" won the Ōfuji Noburō Award.
 Internationally, "Spirited Away" became the first, and so far only, anime to win both the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.
 Kōji Yamamura's "Mt. Head" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
 "Spirited Away" also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film.
Chao-Li Chi (; April 5, 1927 – October 16, 2010) was a Shanxi-born actor and dancer who worked extensively in American television, including his best known role as Chao-Li, the faithful majordomo and chauffeur of Jane Wyman's character in "Falcon Crest".
 Additionally, his film credits include "Big Trouble in Little China", "The Joy Luck Club", "The Nutty Professor", "Wedding Crashers" and "The Prestige".
 He was featured in the short film by Maya Deren, "Meditation on Violence", in 1948.
Carlos Saldanha (] ; born January 24, 1965) is a Brazilian director, producer and animator of animated films who works with Blue Sky Studios.
 He was the director of "" (2006), "" (2009), "Rio" (2011), "Rio 2" (2014), and the co-director of "Ice Age" (2002) and "Robots" (2005).
 In 2003, Saldanha was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for "Gone Nutty".
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская ), was a Russian-American filmmaker and one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.
 Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.
Wild Life is a 2011 Canadian animated short film by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.
 The film debuted at the 2011 Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto in June 2011 and online on January 6, 2012.
 The film was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards, and Best Animated Short Subject at the 39th Annie Awards as well as a Genie Award for Best Animated Short at the 32nd Genie Awards.
(Otto) is a 2015 Dutch animated short film directed by Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins and Marieke Blaauw, from the Dutch animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke.
 The film had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
 (Otto) was chosen to be the official Dutch entry for the Academy Award Best Animated Short Film 2016.
 Job, Joris & Marieke's previous film A Single Life was nominated Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards.
Gone Nutty (also known as Scrat's Missing Adventure) is an animated short film, directed by Carlos Saldanha for Blue Sky Studios.
 The short features the character Scrat from "Ice Age", who is yet again having troubles with collecting his beloved acorns.
 It was released on November 26, 2002, on the "Ice Age" DVD and VHS.
Paperman is a 2012 American black-and-white computer-cel animated romantic comedy short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by John Kahrs.
 The short blends traditional animation and computer animation, and won both the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards and the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject at the 40th Annie Awards.
 "Paperman" was the first animated short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios to win an Academy Award since "It's Tough to Be a Bird" in 1970.
Guard Dog (2004, animation, dark comedy) is a short film (TRT 05:00 min.)
 which was hand-drawn and produced by Independent Animator Bill Plympton at his "Plymptoons" Studio.
 In 2005 the film was nominated for "Best Animated Short" at the 77th Annual Academy Awards held in 2005 and produced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
 Also in 2005 "Guard Dog" won "Best Animated Short" at Toronto World of Comedy International Film Festival, and won a "Special Jury Mention" for "Animated Stories" at ANIMA - Córdoba International Animation Festival.
 This film marked the second Academy Award nomination for Plympton, his first being the animated short Your Face at the 60th Academy Awards.
Internationally, "Patema Inverted" and "The Wind Rises" were nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
 "The Wind Rises" was also in competition for the Golden Lion at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.
 "The Wind Rises" won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
 "The Wind Rises" and "A Letter to Momo" have been nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature at the 41st Annie Awards.
 "The Wind Rises" has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and "Possessions" has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 86th Academy Awards.

Question:  Who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for "Gone Nutty", Carlos Saldanha, a Brazilian director, or Maya Deren, a Russian-American filmmaker? 
Answer: Carlos Saldanha