Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

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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) won with *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. 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 and Gromit* series.

The Academy defines *short* as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits." Ten 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.

### 2020s

 *Yes-People* | Arnar Gunnarsson & Gísli Darri Halldórsson

## Notes

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1. ↑ In 1949, Edward Selzer was originally announced as a nominee for *Canary Row*. However, he withdrew the film from nomination and it did not appear on the final ballot.

## Superlatives

For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge:

* **Most awards:** Walt Disney Template:Ndash 12 awards
* **Most nominations:** Walt Disney Template:Ndash 39 nominations
* **Shortest winning film:** *The Crunch Bird* (1971) Template:Ndash 2 minutes
* **Longest winning film:** *Peter & the Wolf* (2007) Template:Ndash 33 minutes
* **Shortest nominated film:** *Fresh Guacamole* (2012) Template:Ndash 1 min. 44 sec.

## Multiple nominations and awards

The following is a list of animation studios or animators that earned multiple nominations and awards in this category.

## Submissions

*Main article: Submissions for Best Animated Short Academy Award*
Animation historian Jerry Beck posted, on *Cartoon Research*, lists of animated shorts from various studios considered for nomination beginning with 1948—as documents prior to 1948 could not be located—and ending so far with 1986.

Between the years 1948 to 1986, the following documentions were also missing: 1949, 1950, 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985.

### 1980s

(53rd)
* *Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 241/2th Century* (WB)
* *Fisheye* (Zagreb Film)
* *Getting Started* (NFB)
* *Opens Wednesday* (Barrie Nelson)
* *Sing Beast Sing* (Marv Newland)
* *The Sweater* (NFB)
(56th)
* *Bottom's Dream* (Canemaker)
* *Morris's Disappearing Bag* (Michael Sporn)
* *Narcissus* (NFB)
* *Your Feet's Too Big* (Nancy Beiman)
* *Machine Story* (Doug Miller)
(57th)
* *Life Is Flashing Before My Eyes* (Vince Collins)
* *Anijam* (Newland)
* *Boomtown* (Bill Plympton)
* *High Fidelity* (Robert Abel)
* *My Little Pony* (Tom Griffen and Joe Bacall)
* *Real Inside* (NFB)
* *The Romance of Betty Boop* (Bill Melendez)
(59th)
* *Tables of Content* (Wendy Tilby)
* *Broken Down Film* (Tezuka)
* *Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety* (NFB)
* *Get A Job* (NFB)
* *I Was A Thanksgiving Turkey* (John Schnall)
* *John Lennon Sketchbook* (Canemaker)

## See also

* Submissions for Best Animated Short Academy Award
* List of animation awards
* BAFTA Award for Best Short Film
* *The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals*
* List of animated short films
* Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
* Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
	+ Submissions for Best Animated Feature Academy Award
* List of Academy Awards for Walt Disney

## Footnotes

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1. ↑ (2007). Rule 19, Section III, Paragraph 7 80th Academy Award Rules for Distinguished Achievements Template:Webarchive. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Search Results: 'Walt Disney'." *Academy Awards Database*. 2021.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Academy Award Statistics." *Academy Awards Database*. Template:Webarchive
4. ↑ Rule Nineteen: Short Films Awards Template:Webarchive. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
5. ↑ The Official Academy Awards Database. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
6. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Academy Awards 2017: Complete list of Oscar winners and nominees". *Los Angeles Times*. February 26, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
7. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"90th Academy Award Animated Short Film Nominees". January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
8. ↑ Washington Post, Brad Plumer (February 25, 2013). The shortest film ever nominated for an Oscar.
9. ↑ Search Results: 'Production Company:Disney', 'Category:Short Film (Animated)'. *Academy Awards Database*. 2021.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1948 -.
11. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1986 -.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1977 -.
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1983 -.
14. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1986 -.
15. ↑ 1948 Screen Song "Base Brawl"-Internet Archive
16. ↑ Hep Cat Symphony-Internet Archive
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1951 -.
18. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1952 -.
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1953 -.
20. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1954 -.
21. ↑ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1955". *cartoonresearch.com*.
22. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1956 -.
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30. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1964 -.
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32. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1966 -.
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34. ↑ markdcatlin (March 5, 2011). Tom Lehrer Sings Pollution 1967.
35. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1968 -.
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38. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1971 -.
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45. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1980 -.
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47. ↑ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1986 -.
48. ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 Best Animated Short: Top Five Shortlisted, Non-Nominated Films 2009–2013 (November 6, 2014).
49. ↑ Best Animated Short: Best Animated Short – 2012: The Shortlist (November 10, 2012).
50. ↑ Best Animated Short: Best Animated Short – 2013: The Shortlist (November 14, 2013).
51. ↑ Best Animated Short: Best Animated Short – 2014: The Shortlist (November 5, 2014).
52. ↑ Best Animated Short: Best Animated Short – 2015: The Shortlist (November 24, 2015).
53. ↑ Best Animated Short: Best Animated Short – 2016: The Shortlist (November 28, 2016).
54. ↑ Best Animated Short: Best Animated Short – 2017: The Shortlist (December 4, 2017).
55. ↑ 91st OSCARS SHORTLISTS. *Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences* (17 December 2018).
Best Animated Short: Best Animated Short – 2018: The Shortlist (December 17, 2018).
57. ↑ 92nd OSCARS SHORTLISTS. *Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences* (December 10, 2019).
58. ↑ Best Animated Short: Best Animated Short – 2019: The Shortlist (December 17, 2019).
59. ↑ IN CONVERSATION WITH ABDULLAH AL-WAZZAN (en-US).
60. ↑ 93rd Oscars® Shortlists In Nine Award Categories Announced. *Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences* (February 9, 2021).
61. ↑ Best Animated Short: Best Animated Short – 2020 Shortlist (February 11, 2021).

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