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The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
 as part of the Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 every year since the 5th Academy Awards
5th Academy Awards

The 5th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1931/1932, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award winners were as follows:...
, covering the year 1931-32, to the present.

This category was known as "Short Subjects, Cartoons" from 1932 until 1970, and as "Short Subjects, Animated Films" from 1971 to 1973. The present title began with the 1974 awards. In the listings below, the title shown in boldface was the winner of the award, followed by the other nominees for that year.






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The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
 as part of the Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 every year since the 5th Academy Awards
5th Academy Awards

The 5th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1931/1932, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award winners were as follows:...
, covering the year 1931-32, to the present.

This category was known as "Short Subjects, Cartoons" from 1932 until 1970, and as "Short Subjects, Animated Films" from 1971 to 1973. The present title began with the 1974 awards. In the listings below, the title shown in boldface was the winner of the award, followed by the other nominees for that year. This category is notable for giving Walt Disney
Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
 12 of his 22 Academy Awards, including a posthumous 1968 award, and also 10 of the first 12 awards awarded in the category. Only American films were nominated for the award until 1952, and only in 1960 was a film nominated that was not made in North America.

Awards were presented to the shorts' producers during the first five decades of the award's existence. Current Academy rules call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film. In the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded."

1930s

As Short Subjects (Cartoons)

  • 1931-1932 (5th
    5th Academy Awards

    The 5th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1931/1932, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award winners were as follows:...
    )     Flowers and Trees
    Flowers and Trees

    Flowers and Trees is a 1932 in film Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932....
     - Walt Disney Productions, United Artists
    United Artists

    United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
     - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Mickey's Orphans - Walt Disney Productions, United Artists - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • It's Got Me Again! - Leon Schlesinger Productions
      Warner Bros. Cartoons

      Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was the animation division of Warner Bros. Pictures during the The Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successful animation studios in United States media history, Warner Bros....
      , Warner Bros.
      Warner Bros.

      Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
       - Leon Schlesinger
      Leon Schlesinger

      Leon Schlesinger was an USA film producer, most noted for founding Warner_Bros._Cartoons#1933_-_1944:_Leon_Schlesinger_Productions, which later became the Warner Bros....
  • 1933-1934 (6th
    6th Academy Awards

    The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934 at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Will Rogers and Rogers also presented all of the awards....
    ) Three Little Pigs
    Three Little Pigs (film)

    Three Little Pigs is an animation short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett....
     - Walt Disney Productions, United Artists - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Building a Building - Walt Disney Productions, United Artists - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • The Merry Old Soul - Universal
      Universal Pictures

      This is a partial listing of films produced and/or distributed by Universal Pictures, the main film production company/distribution company arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal.List of films...
       - Walter Lantz
      Walter Lantz

      Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
  • 1935 (7th
    7th Academy Awards

    The 7th Academy Awards, honoring the 1934 in film, were held on February 27 1935 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb....
    ) -     The Tortoise and the Hare
    The Tortoise and the Hare (film)

    The Tortoise and the Hare is an animation short film released on January 5, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson....
     - Walt Disney Productions, United Artists - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Holiday Land - Screen Gems
      Screen Gems

      Screen Gems is an United States subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....
      , Columbia
      Columbia Pictures

      Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
       - Charles Mintz
    • Jolly Little Elves - Universal - Walter Lantz
      Walter Lantz

      Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
  • 1936 (8th
    8th Academy Awards

    The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra....
    ) Three Orphan Kittens
    Three Orphan Kittens

    Three Orphan Kittens is a 1935 animation short film in the Silly Symphonies series produced by Walt Disney Productions. It was the winner of the 1935 Academy Award for Best Short Subject ....
     - Walt Disney Productions, United Artists - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • The Calico Dragon - Harman-Ising, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hugh Harman & Rudolf Ising
    • Who Killed Cock Robin? - Walt Disney Productions, United Artists - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
  • 1937 (9th
    9th Academy Awards

    The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by George Jessel ....
    )     The Country Cousin     - Walt Disney Productions, United Artists - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Old Mill Pond - Harman-Ising, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hugh Harman & Rudolf Ising
    • Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
      Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

      Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on November 27 1936 by Paramount Pictures....
       - Fleischer Studios
      Fleischer Studios

      Fleischer Studios, Inc. is an United States corporation which originated as an animation studio located at 1600 Broadway , New York City, New York....
      , Paramount
      Paramount Pictures

      Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
       - Max Fleischer
      Max Fleischer

      File:MaxFleischerPDUS.JPGMax Fleischer was an important Jewish-American pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon who served as the head of Fleischer Studios....
  • 1938 (10th
    10th Academy Awards

    The 10th Academy Awards were held on March 10, 1938 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California.Originally scheduled to be held on March 3, 1938, the ceremony was postponed due to heavy flooding in Los Angeles....
    ) The Old Mill
    The Old Mill

    The Old Mill is a 1937 in film Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, scored by Leigh Harline, and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on November 5, 1937....
     - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Educated Fish - Fleischer Studios, Paramount - Max Fleischer
      Max Fleischer

      File:MaxFleischerPDUS.JPGMax Fleischer was an important Jewish-American pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon who served as the head of Fleischer Studios....
    • The Little Match Girl
      The Little Match Girl

      "The Little Match Girl" is a fairy tale by Denmark poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a girl who dies selling matches on a winter New Year's Eve....
       - Screen Gems, Columbia - Charles Mintz
  • 1939 (11th
    11th Academy Awards

    The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host....
    )     Ferdinand the Bull
    The Story of Ferdinand

    File:Ferdinand the Bull.jpgThe Story of Ferdinand is the most well known work written by United States author Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson ....
     - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Brave Little Tailor
      Brave Little Tailor

      Brave Little Tailor is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Mickey Mouse series, produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions, and released to theatres on September 29, 1938 by RKO Radio Pictures....
       - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
      Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

      Mother Goose Goes Hollywood is an 1938 Walt Disney animated short featuring parodies of Mother Goose nursery rhymes and caricatures of Hollywood celebrities from the 1930s....
       - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Good Scouts
      Good Scouts

      Good Scouts is a Donald Duck cartoon which features Donald as the leader of Huey, Dewey, and Louie's scout troop.The cartoon begins with Donald and his nephews hiking in the great outdoors in Yellowstone National Park....
       - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Hunky and Spunky
      Hunky and Spunky

      Hunky and Spunky is a 1938 animated short film, part of the Color Classics series produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures....
       - Fleischer Studios, Paramount - Max Fleischer
      Max Fleischer

      File:MaxFleischerPDUS.JPGMax Fleischer was an important Jewish-American pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon who served as the head of Fleischer Studios....
  • 1940 (12th
    12th Academy Awards

    The 12th Academy Awards, honoring the 1939 in film, was held on February 29, 1940 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles....
    ) The Ugly Duckling
    The Ugly Duckling (animated film)

    The Ugly Duckling are two animated films by Walt Disney based on the fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen. In the Andersen tale, a duckling is harassed because of his homeliness....
     - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Detouring America - Leon Schlesinger Productions, Warner Bros. - Leon Schlesinger
      Leon Schlesinger

      Leon Schlesinger was an USA film producer, most noted for founding Warner_Bros._Cartoons#1933_-_1944:_Leon_Schlesinger_Productions, which later became the Warner Bros....
    • Peace on Earth - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
      Fred Quimby

      __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
       & Hugh Harman
    • The Pointer - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....


1940s

  • 1941 (13th
    13th Academy Awards

    The 13th Academy Awards honored American film achievements in 1940. This was the first year that sealed envelopes were used to keep secret the names of the winners which led to the famous phrase: "May I have the Envelope, please." The accounting firm of Price Waterhouse was hired to count the ballots, after the fiasco of leaked voting result...
    )     The Milky Way     - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
    Fred Quimby

    __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
     & Rudolph Ising
    • Puss Gets the Boot
      Puss Gets the Boot

      Puss Gets the Boot is a one-reel animated cartoon and is the 1st Tom and Jerry short, although not billed as such in the cartoon. It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on February 10, 1940 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer....
       - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Rudolph Ising
    • A Wild Hare
      A Wild Hare

      A Wild Hare is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short film. It was produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, directed by Tex Avery, and written by Rich Hogan....
       - Leon Schlesinger Productions, Warner Bros. - Leon Schlesinger
      Leon Schlesinger

      Leon Schlesinger was an USA film producer, most noted for founding Warner_Bros._Cartoons#1933_-_1944:_Leon_Schlesinger_Productions, which later became the Warner Bros....
  • 1942 (14th
    14th Academy Awards

    The 14th Academy Awards may be most infamous, in retrospect, as the year in which Citizen Kane did not win Best Picture. Rather, Best Picture was awarded to How Green Was My Valley , the story of Welsh coalminers in changing times....
    ) Lend a Paw
    Lend a Paw

    Lend a Paw is a 1941 in film cartoon which starred Mickey Mouse and Pluto. It is a remake of the 1932 in film Mickey Mouse cartoon entitled Mickey's Pal Pluto....
     - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B - Walter Lantz Productions, Universal - Walter Lantz
      Walter Lantz

      Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
    • Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
      Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt

      Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt is a Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series, starring Bugs Bunny and Hiawatha, first released on June 7, 1941....
       - Leon Schlesinger Productions, Warner Bros. - Leon Schlesinger
      Leon Schlesinger

      Leon Schlesinger was an USA film producer, most noted for founding Warner_Bros._Cartoons#1933_-_1944:_Leon_Schlesinger_Productions, which later became the Warner Bros....
    • How War Came - Screen Gems, Columbia - George Winkler
    • The Night Before Christmas - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
      Fred Quimby

      __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Rhapsody in Rivets - Leon Schlesinger Productions, Warner Bros. - Leon Schlesinger
      Leon Schlesinger

      Leon Schlesinger was an USA film producer, most noted for founding Warner_Bros._Cartoons#1933_-_1944:_Leon_Schlesinger_Productions, which later became the Warner Bros....
    • The Rookie Bear - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
      Fred Quimby

      __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
       & Rudolph Ising
    • Rhythm in the Ranks - Paramount - George Pál
      George Pál

      George Pal , born Gy?rgy P?l Marczincs?k, was a Hungarian-born United States animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre....
    • Superman
      Superman (animated short)

      Superman is the first of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Also known as The Mad Scientist, Superman was produced by Fleischer Studios and released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on September 26, 1941....
       - Fleischer Studios, Paramount - Max Fleischer
      Max Fleischer

      File:MaxFleischerPDUS.JPGMax Fleischer was an important Jewish-American pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon who served as the head of Fleischer Studios....
    • Truant Officer Donald
      Truant Officer Donald

      'Truant Officer Donald'is a 1941 The Walt Disney Company cartoon starring Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie. It is Academy Award nominated for best short animation...
       - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
  • 1943 (15th
    15th Academy Awards

    The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Best Picture honors went to the film Mrs. Miniver ....
    )     Der Fuehrer's Face
    Der Fuehrer's Face

    Der Fuehrer's Face is a 1943 in film animated cartoon by the The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment, starring Donald Duck. It was directed by Jack Kinney and released on January 1, 1943 as an anti-Nazism propaganda piece for the United States war effort....
     - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • All Out for 'V' - Terrytoons
      Terrytoons

      Terrytoons was an animation studio founded by Paul Terry . The studio, located in suburban New Rochelle, New York, operated from 1928 to 1968....
      , 20th Century Fox
      20th Century Fox

      Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios....
       - Paul Terry
      Paul Terry (cartoonist)

      Paul Houlton Terry was an United States of America cartoonist, screenwriter, film director and one of the most prolific film producers in history....
    • Blitz Wolf
      Blitz Wolf

      Blitz Wolf is an early anti-German World War II Adolf Hitler-parodying cartoon produced in 1942 in film by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby....
       - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
      Fred Quimby

      __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Juke Box Jamboree - Walter Lantz Productions, Universal - Walter Lantz
      Walter Lantz

      Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
    • Pigs in a Polka
      Pigs in a Polka

      Pigs in a Polka is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on February 6, 1943 by Warner Bros....
       - Leon Schlesinger Productions, Warner Bros. - Leon Schlesinger
      Leon Schlesinger

      Leon Schlesinger was an USA film producer, most noted for founding Warner_Bros._Cartoons#1933_-_1944:_Leon_Schlesinger_Productions, which later became the Warner Bros....
    • Tulips Shall Grow
      Tulips Shall Grow

      Tulips Shall Grow is a 1942 animated short film about a Netherlands boy and girl whose idyllic existence is destroyed when they are overrun by a group of mechanical men called "The Screwballs", who lay waste to everything they touch, and is generally recognized as a not-so-subtle pro-Dutch, anti-Germany film....
       - Paramount - George Pál
      George Pál

      George Pal , born Gy?rgy P?l Marczincs?k, was a Hungarian-born United States animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre....
  • 1944 (16th
    16th Academy Awards

    The 16th Academy Awards, in 1944, was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman?s Chinese Theater. Free passes were given out to men and women in uniform....
    ) The Yankee Doodle Mouse
    The Yankee Doodle Mouse

    The Yankee Doodle Mouse is a 1943 in film one-reel animated cartoon and is the 11th Tom and Jerry short subject produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley and animation by Irven Spence, Pete Burness, Kenneth Muse and George Gordon....
     - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
    Fred Quimby

    __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • The Dizzy Acrobat
      The Dizzy Acrobat

      The Dizzy Acrobat is the eighth animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on May 21, 1943, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Studios....
       - Walter Lantz Productions, Universal - Walter Lantz
      Walter Lantz

      Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
    • Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins - Paramount - George Pál
      George Pál

      George Pal , born Gy?rgy P?l Marczincs?k, was a Hungarian-born United States animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre....
    • Greetings, Bait - Leon Schlesinger Productions, Warner Bros. - Leon Schlesinger
      Leon Schlesinger

      Leon Schlesinger was an USA film producer, most noted for founding Warner_Bros._Cartoons#1933_-_1944:_Leon_Schlesinger_Productions, which later became the Warner Bros....
    • Imagination - Screen Gems, Columbia - Dave Fleischer
      Dave Fleischer

      David Fleischer was a Jewish-American animator film director, and film producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer as well as uncle to director Richard Fleischer....
    • Reason and Emotion - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
  • 1945 (17th
    17th Academy Awards

    The 17th Academy Awards marked the first time this awards ceremony was broadcast nationally on the ABC Radio network.Through the 1940?s, the ceremony and academy rules continued to evolve into the form by which we know them today....
    )     Mouse Trouble
    Mouse Trouble

    Mouse Trouble is a 1944 in film one-reel animated cartoon and is the 17th Tom and Jerry short subject produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with music by Scott Bradley ....
     - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
    Fred Quimby

    __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street - Paramount - George Pál
      George Pál

      George Pal , born Gy?rgy P?l Marczincs?k, was a Hungarian-born United States animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre....
    • Dog, Cat and Canary - Screen Gems, Columbia - Raymond Katz
    • Fish Fry
      Fish fry

      A fish fry is a meal usually consisting of Batter ed and fried fish, french fries, coleslaw, hushpuppies, lemon slices, tartar sauce, malt vinegar and dessert....
       - Walter Lantz Productions, Universal - Walter Lantz
      Walter Lantz

      Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
    • How to Play Football - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • My Boy, Johnny - Terrytoons, 20th Century Fox - Paul Terry
      Paul Terry (cartoonist)

      Paul Houlton Terry was an United States of America cartoonist, screenwriter, film director and one of the most prolific film producers in history....
    • Swooner Crooner
      Swooner Crooner

      Swooner Crooner is a 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. It stars Mel Blanc as Porky Pig. It is available on the Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons VHS and Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 DVD....
       - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
  • 1946 (18th
    18th Academy Awards

    The 18th Academy Awards was the first such ceremony after World War II. As a result, the ceremony featured more glamour than had been present during the war....
    ) Quiet Please! - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Fred Quimby
    Fred Quimby

    __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Donald's Crime - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Jasper and the Beanstalk - Paramount - George Pál
      George Pál

      George Pal , born Gy?rgy P?l Marczincs?k, was a Hungarian-born United States animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre....
    • Life with Feathers
      Life With Feathers

      Life with Feathers is a 1945 Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng and produced and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film, but lost to a Tom and Jerry cartoon called Quiet Please!....
       - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
    • Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life - Terrytoons, 20th Century Fox - Paul Terry
      Paul Terry (cartoonist)

      Paul Houlton Terry was an United States of America cartoonist, screenwriter, film director and one of the most prolific film producers in history....
    • The Poet and Peasant - Walter Lantz Productions, Universal - Walter Lantz
      Walter Lantz

      Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
    • Rippling Romance - Screen Gems, Columbia - Raymond Katz
  • 1947 (19th
    19th Academy Awards

    The 19th Academy Awards continued a trend through the late-1940s of the Oscar voters honoring films about contemporary social issues. The Best Years of Our Lives concerns the lives of three returning veterans from three branches of military service as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II....
    )     The Cat Concerto
    The Cat Concerto

    The Cat Concerto is a 1946 in film one-reel animated cartoon and is the 29th Tom and Jerry short subject, produced in Technicolor in 1946 and released to theatres on April 26 1947 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer....
     - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
    Fred Quimby

    __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Musical Moments from Chopin - Walter Lantz Productions, Universal - Walter Lantz
      Walter Lantz

      Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
    • John Henry and the Inky-Poo - Paramount - George Pál
      George Pál

      George Pal , born Gy?rgy P?l Marczincs?k, was a Hungarian-born United States animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre....
    • Squatter's Rights - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Walky Talky Hawky
      Walky Talky Hawky

      Walky Talky Hawky is a Henery Hawk/Foghorn Leghorn animated short film from Warner Bros. released in 1946 in film and directed by Robert McKimson....
       - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
  • 1948 (20th
    20th Academy Awards

    The 20th Academy Awards spread awards around, with no film receiving more than 3 awards, the last time this would happen until the 78th Academy Awards....
    ) Tweetie Pie
    Tweetie Pie

    Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, depicting the first pairing of Tweety and Sylvester ....
     - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
    • Chip an' Dale - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
      Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse

      Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse is a 1947 in film one-reel animated cartoon and is the 30th Tom and Jerry short subject, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1947....
       - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Fred Quimby
      Fred Quimby

      __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Pluto's Blue Note - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Tubby the Tuba
      Tubby the Tuba (1947 film)

      Tubby the Tuba is a 1947 in film from Paramount Pictures, directed by George Pal as part of his Puppetoons. It was based on the Tubby the Tuba by Paul Tripp and George Kleinsinger....
       - Paramount - George Pál
      George Pál

      George Pal , born Gy?rgy P?l Marczincs?k, was a Hungarian-born United States animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre....
  • 1949 (21st
    21st Academy Awards

    The 21st Academy Awards features numerous firsts. It was the first time a non-Hollywood production won Best Picture, Hamlet . It was the first time an individual directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance....
    )     The Little Orphan
    The Little Orphan

    The Little Orphan is a 1949 in film one-reel animated cartoon and is the 40th Tom and Jerry short, released in theatres on April 30, 1949 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer....
     - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
    Fred Quimby

    __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Mickey and the Seal
      Mickey and the Seal

      Mickey and the Seal is a cartoon short created by Walt Disney in 1948 in film. It was nominated for Academy Award for Animated Short Film, but lost to Tom and Jerry cartoon The Little Orphan....
       - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Mouse Wreckers - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
    • Robin Hoodlum - UPA
      United Productions of America

      United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an United States animation studio of the 1940s through present day, beginning with industrial films and World War II training films....
      , Columbia - John Hubley
      John Hubley

      John Hubley was an United States animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films....
       & Raymond Katz
    • Tea for Two Hundred- Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
  • 1950 (22nd
    22nd Academy Awards

    The 22nd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1949....
    ) For Scent-imental Reasons
    For Scent-imental Reasons

    For Scent-imental Reasons is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short released in 1949. It was directed by Chuck Jones, written by Michael Maltese, and featured the characters Pepe LePew and Penelope Pussycat ....
     - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
    • Hatch Up Your Troubles
      Hatch Up Your Troubles

      Hatch Up Your Troubles is a 1949 in film one-reel animated cartoon and is the 41st Tom and Jerry short produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley and animation by Ed Barge, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence and Kenneth Muse....
       - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
      Fred Quimby

      __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Magic Fluke - UPA, Columbia - Stephen Bosustow
      Stephen Bosustow

      Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
    • Toy Tinkers - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....


1950s

  • 1951 (23rd
    23rd Academy Awards

    The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1950. The nominations were noticeable this year, as All About Eve was nominated for fourteen Oscars, beating the previous record of Gone with the Wind ....
    )     Gerald McBoing-Boing
    Gerald McBoing-Boing

    Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated short film produced by United Productions of America and given wide release by Columbia Pictures on January 25, 1951....
     - United Productions of America
    United Productions of America

    United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an United States animation studio of the 1940s through present day, beginning with industrial films and World War II training films....
    , Columbia
    Columbia Pictures

    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
     - Stephen Bosustow
    Stephen Bosustow

    Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
    • Jerry's Cousin
      Jerry's Cousin

      Jerry's Cousin is a 1951 in film one-reel animated cartoon and is the 57th Tom and Jerry short. Made in 1950, but released in 1951 on April 7 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was nominated for the 1950 Academy Award for Animated Short Film, but lost to Gerald McBoing-Boing, a UPA production....
       - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
      Fred Quimby

      __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Trouble Indemnity - United Productions of America, Columbia - Stephen Bosustow
      Stephen Bosustow

      Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
  • 1952 (24th
    24th Academy Awards

    The 24th Academy Awards is an event that honored the Greatest Films of 1951.The single film which came out with the largest number of honors was An American in Paris , which scoops six Oscars, including Best Picture....
    ) The Two Mouseketeers
    The Two Mouseketeers

    The Two Mouseketeers is a 1952 in film one-reel animated cartoon and is the 65th Tom and Jerry short subject, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on March 15, 1952 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer....
     - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
    Fred Quimby

    __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Lambert the Sheepish Lion
      Lambert the Sheepish Lion

      Lambert the Sheepish Lion is a Walt Disney Company cartoon short film released in 1951. The 8-minute film focuses on Lambert, a lion that is mistakenly left with a flock of sheep by a stork....
       - Walt Disney, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Rooty Toot Toot
      Rooty Toot Toot

      Rooty Toot Toot is a 1952 United Productions of America animated short film, directed by John Hubley. In 1994 it was voted #41 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field....
       - United Productions of America, Columbia - Stephen Bosustow
      Stephen Bosustow

      Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
  • 1953 (25th
    25th Academy Awards

    The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best 1952 in film, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, New York....
    )     Johann Mouse
    Johann Mouse

    Johann Mouse is the 75th one reel animated cartoon Tom and Jerry Short subject, created in 1953 in film directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley and Jakob Gimpel and narration by Hans Conried....
     - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
    Fred Quimby

    __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Little Johnny Jet - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
      Fred Quimby

      __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
    • Madeline
      Madeline

      Madeline is a children's book series written by Ludwig Bemelmans, an American author of Belgian, Austrian and Germany origins. The first book in the series, Madeline, was published in 1939....
       - United Productions of America, Columbia - Stephen Bosustow
      Stephen Bosustow

      Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
    • Pink and Blue Blues - United Productions of America, Columbia - Stephen Bosustow
      Stephen Bosustow

      Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
    • The Romance of Transportation in Canada
      The Romance of Transportation in Canada

      The Romance of Transportation in Canada is a 1952 animated short directed by Colin Low and animated by Wolf Koenig and Robert Verrall. It was narrated by Max Ferguson, from a script by Guy Glover....
       - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Colin Low
      Colin Low (filmmaker)

      Colin Archibald Low, Order of Canada, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts is a Canada animation and documentary filmmaker.Born in Cardston, Alberta, Low attended the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Calgary Institute of Technology, now known as the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology....
  • 1954 (26th
    26th Academy Awards

    The 26th Academy Awards honored the best in films of 1953.The second national telecast of the Awards show draws an estimated 43,000,000 viewers....
    ) Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
    Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

    Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is an educational Adventures in Music animation short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, and originally released to theaters by Disney's Buena Vista Distribution on November 10 1953....
     - Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista
    Buena Vista Distribution

    Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is a motion picture and television feature distribution company owned by The Walt Disney Company. Buena Vista International was the international distribution arm, and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment was the firm's video and DVD distribution arm....
     - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Christopher Crumpet - United Productions of America, Columbia- Stephen Bosustow
      Stephen Bosustow

      Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
    • From A to Z-z-z-z
      From A to Z-Z-Z-Z

      From A to Z-Z-Z-Z is a 1953 animated cartoon short by Chuck Jones in the Looney Tunes series. It was released by Warner Bros. in 1954....
       - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
    • Rugged Bear - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • The Tell-Tale Heart - United Productions of America, Columbia- Stephen Bosustow
      Stephen Bosustow

      Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
  • 1955 (27th
    27th Academy Awards

    The 27th Academy Awards honored the best films produced in 1954. The Best Picture winner, On the Waterfront, was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by Elia Kazan....
    )     When Magoo Flew
    When Magoo Flew

    When Magoo Flew is a 1954 short animation by Stephen Bosustow that won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1954Near sighted Mr....
     - United Productions of America, Columbia - Stephen Bosustow
    Stephen Bosustow

    Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
    • Crazy Mixed Up Pup - Walter Lantz Productions, Universal-International - Walter Lantz
      Walter Lantz

      Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
    • Pigs Is Pigs
      Pigs Is Pigs (1954 film)

      Pigs Is Pigs is a 1954 animated film by Walt Disney Studios. It is based on the story Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler.It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short....
       - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Sandy Claws - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
    • Touché, Pussy Cat!
      Touché, Pussy Cat!

      Touch?, Pussy Cat! is the 89th one-reel animated cartoon Tom and Jerry Short subject, created in 1954 in film directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley....
       - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
      Fred Quimby

      __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
  • 1956 (28th
    28th Academy Awards

    The 28th Academy Awards were presented at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. It honored the top films of 1955, and awarded the winners the coveted "Oscar"....
    ) Speedy Gonzales - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
    • Good Will to Men - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Fred Quimby
      Fred Quimby

      __forcetoc__Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was the film producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, which most notably included Tex Avery and the team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, creators of Tom and Jerry ....
      , William Hanna
      William Hanna

      William Denby "Bill" Hanna was an influential American animator, film director, Film producer, television director, television producer, and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....
       and Joseph Barbera
      Joseph Barbera

      Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera ; was an influential American animator, film director, Film producer, storyboard artist, and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....
    • The Legend of Rockabye Point
      The Legend of Rockabye Point

      The Legend of Rockabye Point is a 1955 in film Chilly Willy cartoon directed by Tex Avery and produced by Walter Lantz. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short Film....
       - Walter Lantz Productions, Universal-International - Walter Lantz
      Walter Lantz

      Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
    • No Hunting - Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
  • 1957 (29th
    29th Academy Awards

    During the 29th Academy Awards, the regular competitive category of Best Foreign Language film was introduced, instead of only being recognized as a special achievement Honorary Award or as a Best Picture nominee ....
    )     Mister Magoo's Puddle Jumper     - United Productions of America, Columbia - Stephen Bosustow
    Stephen Bosustow

    Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
    • Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo - United Productions of America, Columbia - Stephen Bosustow
      Stephen Bosustow

      Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
    • The Jaywalker - United Productions of America, Columbia - Stephen Bosustow
      Stephen Bosustow

      Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
  • 1958 (30th
    30th Academy Awards

    The 30th Academy Awards was the first time the entire ceremony was live broadcast.The Oscar for Writing Based on Material From Another Medium was awarded to Pierre Boulle for The Bridge on the River Kwai, despite the fact that he did not know English....
    ) Birds Anonymous
    Birds Anonymous

    Birds Anonymous is a 1957 Merrie Melodies animated short, directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster, starring Tweety Bird, Sylvester and Sam....
     - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
    • One Droopy Knight
      One Droopy Knight

      One Droopy Knight is a 1957 MGM animated cartoon featuring the anthropomorphic dog Droopy. It was directed by Michael Lah, written by Homer Brightman, and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera....
       - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - William Hanna
      William Hanna

      William Denby "Bill" Hanna was an influential American animator, film director, Film producer, television director, television producer, and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....
       and Joseph Barbera
      Joseph Barbera

      Joseph Roland "Joe" Barbera ; was an influential American animator, film director, Film producer, storyboard artist, and cartoonist, whose movie and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....
    • Tabasco Road
      Tabasco Road

      Tabasco Road is a 1957 Speedy Gonzales cartoon, part of the Looney Tunes series.It was an Academy Awards nominee for best short subject but it lost out to Birds Anonymous ....
       - Warner Bros. - Edward Selzer
    • Trees and Jamaica Daddy - United Productions of America, Columbia - Stephen Bosustow
      Stephen Bosustow

      Stephen Reginald Bosustow was an United States film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and produced nearly 600 cartoon and live action shorts....
    • The Truth About Mother Goose - Walt Disney Productions,, Buena Vista - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
  • 1959 (31st
    31st Academy Awards

    The telecast of the 31st Academy Awards is among the most infamous. The show?s producer Jerry Wald started cutting numbers from the show to make sure it ran on time....
    )     Knighty Knight Bugs
    Knighty Knight Bugs

    Knighty Knight Bugs is a 1958 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Mel Blanc provided for the voices of all the characters in this cartoon....
     - Warner Bros. - Friz Freleng
    Friz Freleng

    Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, Film director, and Film producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
    • Paul Bunyan - Walt Disney Productions,., Buena Vista - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Sidney's Family Tree - Terrytoons, 20th Century Fox - William M. Weiss
  • 1960 (32nd
    32nd Academy Awards

    The 32nd Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1959 on 4 April 1960.MGM's and director William Wyler's three and a half-hour long epic drama Ben-Hur broke the previous year's all-time record of Gigi ....
    ) Moonbird
    Moonbird

    Moonbird is a 1959 short animation by John Hubley and Faith Hubley that won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1959...
     - Storyboard-Harrison - John Hubley
    John Hubley

    John Hubley was an United States animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films....
     and Faith Elliott Hubley
    Faith Hubley

    Faith Hubley was an Academy Awards-winning animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death....
    • Mexicali Shmoes
      Mexicali Shmoes

      Mexicali Shmoes is a 1959 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.The cartoon has two singing gatos Jose and Manuel chasing Speedy Gonzales in Mexico....
       - Warner Bros. - John W. Burton
    • Noah's Ark - Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • The Violinist - Pintoff Prods., Kingsley International - Ernest Pintoff
      Ernest Pintoff

      Ernest Pintoff was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director and television director, screenwriter and film producer.He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for The Critic , a satire on modern art written and narrated by Mel Brooks....


1960s

  • 1961 (33rd
    33rd Academy Awards

    The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the 1960 in film, were held on April 17, 1961 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    )     Munro
    Munro (film)

    Munro is a 1960 animation Short subject. It was directed by Gene Deitch, written by Jules Feiffer, and produced by William L. Snyder. Munro won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1961....
     - Rembrandt Films, Film Representations - William L. Snyder
    • Goliath II
      Goliath II

      Goliath II is an animation short film, produced by The Walt Disney Company and was released on January 21, 1960. Sterling Holloway narrates this cartoon film, starring Kevin Corcoran....
       - Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • High Note - Warner Bros. - Chuck Jones
      Chuck Jones

      Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, film producer, and film director of animation films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros....
    • Mouse and Garden - Warner Bros. - Friz Freleng
      Friz Freleng

      Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, Film director, and Film producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
    • A Place in the Sun (short) - George K. Arthur-Go Pictures (Czechoslovakian) - Frantisek Vystrecil
  • 1962 (34th
    34th Academy Awards

    The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the 1961 in film, were held on April 9, 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) Ersatz (The Substitute) - Zagreb Film
    Zagreb Film

    Zagreb Film is a Croatian film-producing company from Zagreb, founded in 1953. They have produced hundreds of animated films, documentaries, television commercials, educational films and several feature films....
    , Herts-Lion International Corp.
    • Aquamania
      Aquamania

      Aquamania is a cartoon produced by The Walt Disney Company in 1961.This cartoon was the last from Disney's "Golden Era" which featured Goofy as a solo star, and the first time the xerography animation-technique was used in a Goofy cartoon....
       - Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    • Beep Prepared
      Beep Prepared

      Beep Prepared is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short released in 1961. It features Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. Chuck Jones directed from a story by John W....
       - Warner Bros. - Chuck Jones
      Chuck Jones

      Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, film producer, and film director of animation films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros....
    • Nelly's Folly - Warner Bros. - Chuck Jones
      Chuck Jones

      Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, film producer, and film director of animation films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros....
    • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe - Warner Bros. - Friz Freleng
      Friz Freleng

      Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, Film director, and Film producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
  • 1963 (35th
    35th Academy Awards

    The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the 1962 in film, were held on April 8, 1963 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    )     The Hole
    The Hole (1962 film)

    The Hole is a 1962 short animation by John Hubley and Faith Hubley that won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1962The film uses improvised dialogue from Dizzy Gillespie and George Mathews as two construction workers at work in the bottom of a hole on a construction site discussing the possibility of an accidental nucl...
     - Storyboard Inc., Brandon Films - John Hubley
    John Hubley

    John Hubley was an United States animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films....
     and Faith Hubley
    Faith Hubley

    Faith Hubley was an Academy Awards-winning animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death....
    • Icarus Montgolfier Wright - Format Films
      Format Films

      Format Films was a television animation studio which was founded by Herbert Klynn. It was most active during the 1960s, producing episodes of The Alvin Show, Popeye, and The Lone Ranger....
      , United Artists
      United Artists

      United Artists Entertainment LLC is an United States film studio. The current United Artists was formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company....
       - Jules Engel
      Jules Engel

      Jules Engel was a Jewish-Hungarian American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, and director of live action and animated films, and teacher....
    • Now Hear This
      Now Hear This (film)

      Now Hear This is a 1963 animated short film in the Looney Tunes series produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It was directed by Chuck Jones and co-directed by Maurice Noble....
       - Warner Bros.
    • Self Defense ... for Cowards - Rembrandt Films, Film Representations - William L. Snyder
    • Symposium on Popular Songs - Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista - Walt Disney
      Walt Disney

      Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
  • 1964 (36th
    36th Academy Awards

    The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the 1963 in film, were held on April 13 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) The Critic
    The Critic (cartoon)

    The Critic is a 1963 short animation by director/producer Ernest Pintoff and creator/narrator Mel Brooks, that won an Academy Award for Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1963....
     - Pintoff-Crossbow Prods., Columbia - Ernest Pintoff
    Ernest Pintoff

    Ernest Pintoff was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director and television director, screenwriter and film producer.He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for The Critic , a satire on modern art written and narrated by Mel Brooks....
    • Automania 2000 - Pathé Contemporary Films - John Halas
      John Halas

      John Halas was a Hungarian animator. . He learned his craft under George Pal, but launched his own career in 1934, and two years later moved to England where he and his wife Joy Batchelor founded Halas and Batchelor....
    • The Game (Igra) - Rembrandt Films, Film Representations - Dušan Vukotic
    • My Financial Career - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
      , Walter Reade-Sterling-Continental Distributing - Gerald Potterton
    • Pianissimo
      Dynamics (music)

      In music, dynamics normally refers to the volume of a sound or note , but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic or functional ....
       - Cinema 16 - Carmen D'Avino
      Carmen D'Avino

      Carmen D'Avino was a pioneer in Short subject film. As one of the leading figures in the avant-garde film movement of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, his films were regularly seen at Cinema 16, the most successful and influential membership film society in North American history....
  • 1965 (37th
    37th Academy Awards

    The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. All four acting awards went to non-American actors, something not repeated until the 80th Academy Awards were awarded for 2007 in film....
    )     The Pink Phink
    The Pink Phink

    The Pink Phink was the first The Pink Panther animation short released by United Artists and was produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises....
     - Mirisch-Geoffrey, United Artists - David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng
    Friz Freleng

    Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, Film director, and Film producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
    • Christmas Cracker - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
      , Favorite Films of California - Norman McLaren
      Norman McLaren

      Norman McLaren, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada ....
      , Jeff Hale, Gerald Potterton and Grant Munro
      Grant Munro (filmmaker)

      Grant Munro is a Canadian animator, filmmaker and actor....
    • How to Avoid Friendship - Rembrandt Films, Film Representations - William L. Snyder
    • Nudnik No. 2 - Rembrandt Films, Film Representations - William L. Snyder
  • 1966 (38th
    38th Academy Awards

    The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the 1965 in film, were held on April 18 1966 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) The Dot and the Line
    The Dot and the Line

    The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics is a book written and illustrated by Norton Juster, first published by Random House in 1963....
     - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Chuck Jones
    Chuck Jones

    Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, film producer, and film director of animation films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros....
     and Les Goldman
    • Clay or the Origin of Species - Harvard University, Pathé Contemporary Films - Eliot Noyes, Jr.
    • The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) - Allied Artists - Emanuele Luzzati
      Emanuele Luzzati

      Emanuele Luzzati was an Italy Painting, production designer, illustrator, film director and animator. He was nominated for Academy Award for Animated Short Film for two of his short films, La gazza ladra and Pulcinella ....
  • 1967 (39th
    39th Academy Awards

    The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the 1966 in film, were held on April 10, 1967 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    )     Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature     - Paramount - John Hubley
    John Hubley

    John Hubley was an United States animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films....
     and Faith Hubley
    Faith Hubley

    Faith Hubley was an Academy Awards-winning animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death....
    • The Drag - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
      , Favorite Films - Carlos Marchiori
    • The Pink Blueprint
      The Pink Blueprint

      The Pink Blueprint is the 18th cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series. A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980....
       - Mirisch-Geoffrey-DePatie-Freleng, United Artists - David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng
      Friz Freleng

      Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, Film director, and Film producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
  • 1968 (40th
    40th Academy Awards

    The 40th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for 8 April 1968, the awards were postponed to two days later, 10 April 1968, because of the assassination of Dr....
    ) The Box (short) - Brandon Films - Fred Wolf
    Fred Wolf

    'Fred Wolf' is an United States animator. His works include the 1967 short subject The Box, for which he won an Academy Award; television specials such as The_Point!#The_animated_film and Free to Be......
    • Hypothese Beta - Films Orzeaux, Pathé Contemporary Films - Jean-Charles Meunier
    • What on Earth! - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
      , Columbia - Les Drew and Kaj Pindal
  • 1969 (41st
    41st Academy Awards

    The 41st Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host....
    )     Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
    Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

    Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is an animated featurette based on the last two chapters of Winnie-the-Pooh and the second, eighth, and ninth chapters of The House at Pooh Corner, both by A....
     - Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
     (posthumous win
    List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

    This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
    )
    • The House That Jack Built - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
      , Columbia - Ron Tunis
    • The Magic Pear Tree - Bing Crosby Prods. - Jimmy Murakami
      Jimmy Murakami

      Teruaki "Jimmy" Murakami, , is a Japanese American animator and film director with a long career working in numerous countries. Among his best-known works are the animated adaptations of the Raymond Briggs books When the Wind Blows and The Snowman....
    • Windy Day - Hubley Studios, Paramount - John Hubley
      John Hubley

      John Hubley was an United States animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films....
       and Faith Hubley
      Faith Hubley

      Faith Hubley was an Academy Awards-winning animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death....
  • 1970 (42nd
    42nd Academy Awards

    The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies, according to Nielsen ratings....
    ) It's Tough to Be a Bird
    It's Tough to Be a Bird

    It's Tough to Be a Bird is a 1969 in film educational animated short made by The Walt Disney Company. It won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1970 and was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Film Award for Best Animated Film in 1971....
     - Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista - Ward Kimball
    Ward Kimball

    Ward Walrath Kimball was an Academy Awards-winning animator for the The Walt Disney Company#Studio Entertainment. He was one of Walt Disney team of animators known as Disney's Nine Old Men....
    • Of Men and Demons - Hubley Studios, Paramount - John Hubley
      John Hubley

      John Hubley was an United States animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films....
       and Faith Hubley
      Faith Hubley

      Faith Hubley was an Academy Awards-winning animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death....
    • Walking - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
      , Columbia - Ryan Larkin
      Ryan Larkin

      Ryan Larkin was a Canada animator, artist, and sculptor who rose to fame with the psychedelic 1969 in film Academy Award-nominated short Walking and the acclaimed Street Musique who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film Ryan ....


1970s

  • 1971 (43rd
    43rd Academy Awards

    The 43rd Academy Awards were presented April 15, 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host....
    )     Is It Always Right to Be Right?     - Stephen Bosustow Prods., Schoenfeld Films - Nick Bosustow
    • The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two - Haboush Company, Goldstone Films - Robert Mitchell and Dale Case
    • The Shepherd - Cameron Guess and Associates, Brandon Films - Cameron Guess


Name of award changed to Short Subjects (Animated Films)

  • 1972 (44th
    44th Academy Awards

    The 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1972 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Jack Lemmon....
    ) The Crunch Bird - Maxwell-Petok-Petrovich Prods., Regency Films - Ted Petok
    • Evolution - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
      , Columbia - Michael Mills
      Michael Mills

      Michael Mills was an Ireland journalist who served as Ireland's first Ombudsman for two terms beginning in 1984. He retired from the office in 1994....
    • The Selfish Giant - Potterton Prods., Pyramid Films - Peter Sander and Murray Shostak
  • 1973 (45th
    45th Academy Awards

    The 45th Academy Awards were presented March 27, 1973 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson....
    )     A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Carol (1971 film)

    A Christmas Carol is an Academy Award-winning animation adaptation of Charles Dickens' venerable A Christmas Carol which was a made-for-television production originally shown on American Broadcasting Company television in the United States....
     American Broadcasting Company Film Services - Richard Williams
    • Kama Sutra Rides Again - Lion International Films - Bob Godfrey
      Bob Godfrey

      Robert Frederick Godfrey is a distinguished British animator whose career spans more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb , Noah and Nelly in the Skylark and Henry's Cat and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s....
    • Tup Tup - Zagreb Film-Corona Cinematografica, Manson Distributing - Nedeljko Dragic
  • 1974 (46th
    46th Academy Awards

    The 46th Academy Awards were presented April 2, 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by John Huston, Diana Ross, Burt Reynolds, David Niven....
    ) Frank Film
    Frank Film

    Frank Film is a 1973 in film animated short film. Co-creator Frank Mouris reads a list of words starting with the letter "f". This sound track is interwoven with the sound of his reading his autobiography....
     - Frank Mouris Prod. - Frank Mouris
    • The Legend of John Henry - Bosustow-Pyramid Films - Nick Bosustow and David Adams
    • Pulcinella - Luzzati-Gianini Prod. - Emanuele Luzzati
      Emanuele Luzzati

      Emanuele Luzzati was an Italy Painting, production designer, illustrator, film director and animator. He was nominated for Academy Award for Animated Short Film for two of his short films, La gazza ladra and Pulcinella ....
       and Guilo Gianini


Name of award changed to Short Films (Animated Films)

  • 1975 (47th
    47th Academy Awards

    The 47th Academy Awards were presented April 8, 1975 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, and Frank Sinatra....
    )     Closed Mondays
    Closed Mondays

    Closed Mondays is an 11-minute animated film, using animated 3-dimensional clay figures, co-created by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner in 1974....
     - Lighthouse Productions - Will Vinton
    Will Vinton

    Will Vinton is an United States director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, Oregon, near Portland, Oregon. He has won an Academy Awards for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio....
     and Bob Gardiner
    • The Family That Dwelt Apart - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Yvon Mallette and Robert Verrall
    • Hunger - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Peter Foldes and René Jodoin
      René Jodoin

      Ren? Jodoin is an animation director and producer who founded the French-language animation studio of the National Film Board of Canada....
    • Voyage to Next - Hubley Studio - John Hubley
      John Hubley

      John Hubley was an United States animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films....
       and Faith Hubley
      Faith Hubley

      Faith Hubley was an Academy Awards-winning animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death....
    • Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
      Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!

      Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! is the third Winnie-the-Pooh short from The Walt Disney Company, released in theatres on December 20, 1974 accompanying The Island at the Top of the World....
       - Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista - Wolfgang Reitherman
      Wolfgang Reitherman

      Wolfgang Reitherman , also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a famed The Walt Disney Company animator and one of Disney's Nine Old Men....
  • 1976 (48th
    48th Academy Awards

    The 48th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw , George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly....
    ) Great
    Great (film)

    Great is a 25-minute animated film, telling a humorous version of the life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It was directed by Bob Godfrey and produced by Grantstern Films/British Lion....
     - Grantstern, British Lion Films Ltd. - Bob Godfrey
    Bob Godfrey

    Robert Frederick Godfrey is a distinguished British animator whose career spans more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb , Noah and Nelly in the Skylark and Henry's Cat and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s....
    • Kick Me - Swarthe Productions - Robert Swarthe
    • Monsieur Pointu - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - René Jodoin
      René Jodoin

      Ren? Jodoin is an animation director and producer who founded the French-language animation studio of the National Film Board of Canada....
      , Bernard Longpré and André Leduc
    • Sisyphus - Hungarofilms - Marcell Jankovics
      Marcell Jankovics

      Marcell Jankovics is a Hungarian people Academy Award nominated graphic artist, cartoon Film director, animator and author. He received his Oscar nomination for the 1974 animated short movie "Sisyphus"....
  • 1977 (49th
    49th Academy Awards

    The 49th Academy Awards were presented March 28, 1977 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, and Warren Beatty....
    )     Leisure     - Film Australia - Suzanne Baker
    • Dedalo - Cineteam Realizzazioni - Manfredo Manfredi
    • The Street
      The Street (story collection)

      The Street is a collection of short stories by Mordecai Richler. It was originally published by McClelland and Stewart in 1969. The stories take place on St....
       - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Caroline Leaf
      Caroline Leaf

      Caroline Leaf is a Canada-USA filmaker and animator.Leaf made her first film, Sand, or Peter and the Wolf, in 1968 at Harvard University....
       and Guy Glover
  • 1978 (50th
    50th Academy Awards

    The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1978. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, who hosted the awards for the eighteenth and last time....
    ) Sand Castle - National Film Board of Canada
    National Film Board of Canada

    The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
     - Co Hoedeman
    Co Hoedeman

    Jacobus Willem Hoedeman is a Netherlands-Canada filmmaker known for his mastery of stop motion animation and technical innovation in films that reveal his close observation of human and social interaction....
    • The Bead Game - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Ishu Patel
      Ishu Patel

      Ishu Patel is independent filmmaker and animator from India. He is one of the "key filmmakers" of the National Film Board of Canada. Patel is currently teaching animation and storytelling to animation students in India....
    • The Doonesbury Special - Hubley Studio - John Hubley
      John Hubley

      John Hubley was an United States animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his films....
       (posthumous nomination
      List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

      This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
      ), Faith Hubley
      Faith Hubley

      Faith Hubley was an Academy Awards-winning animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death....
       and Garry Trudeau
      Garry Trudeau

      Garretson Beekman Trudeau is an United States cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip....
    • Jimmy the C - Motionpicker Production - James Picker, Robert Grossman
      Robert Grossman

      Robert Grossman is an American painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and author.In a career spanning 45 years, his illustrations have appeared over 500 times on the covers of various national publications....
       and Craig Whitaker
  • 1979 (51st
    51st Academy Awards

    The 51st Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1979 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson....
    )     Special Delivery
    Special Delivery (1978 film)

    Special Delivery is a 1978 animated short film made at the National Film Board of Canada which won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film....
     - National Film Board of Canada
    National Film Board of Canada

    The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
     - Eunice Macauley and John Weldon
    John Weldon (animator)

    John Weldon , is a Canada actor, composer, animator and movie director, known for his National Film Board of Canada animated shorts. He lives in Montreal....
    • Oh My Darling - Nico Crama Productions - Nico Crama
    • Rip Van Winkle - Will Vinton/Billy Budd - Will Vinton
      Will Vinton

      Will Vinton is an United States director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, Oregon, near Portland, Oregon. He has won an Academy Awards for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio....
  • 1980 (52nd
    52nd Academy Awards

    The 52nd Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1980 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson....
    ) Every Child
    Every Child (film)

    Every Child is an animated short film produced in 1979 by the National Film Board of Canada in association with UNICEF.This is a film without words, incorporating sounds by Les M?mes ?lectriques ....
     - National Film Board of Canada
    National Film Board of Canada

    The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
     - Derek Lamb
    Derek Lamb

    'Derek Lamb' was an Academy Award-winning animation filmmaker and producer. While serving as Executive Producer of the National Film Board of Canada's English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-winner Special Delivery , directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay, and produced and scripted Eugene Fedorenko's Every...
    • Dream Doll - Godfrey Films/Zagreb Films/Halas and Batchelor, Film Wright - Bob Godfrey
      Bob Godfrey

      Robert Frederick Godfrey is a distinguished British animator whose career spans more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb , Noah and Nelly in the Skylark and Henry's Cat and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s....
       and Zlatko Grgic
      Zlatko Grgic

      Zlatko Grgic was a Croatian animator who emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s.Born in Zagreb, in the former republic of Yugoslavia, Grgic was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 52nd Academy Awards for his 1979 film Dream Doll, produced by Bob Godfrey....
    • It's so Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House - AR&T Productions for Learning Corporation of America - Paul Fierlinger
      Paul Fierlinger

      Paul Fierlinger is a creator of animated films and shorts, especially animated documentary. He is also a part-time lecturer at University of Pennsylvania....


1980s

  • 1981 (53rd
    53rd Academy Awards

    The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980 in film, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles....
    )     The Fly     - PannóniaFilm
    PannóniaFilm

    Pann?nia Filmst?di? is the biggest animation studio in Hungary....
    , Budapest
    Budapest

    Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
     - Ferenc Rófusz
    Ferenc Rófusz

    Ferenc Rofusz is a Academy-Award winner Hungarian people animator....
    • All Nothing - Radio Canada - Frédéric Back
      Frédéric Back

      Fr?d?ric Back, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is an award-winning Canada animator.Born in Saarbr?cken, Germany, he emigrated to Canada in 1948....
    • History of the World in Three Minutes Flat - Michael Mills Productions Ltd. - Michael Mills
      Michael Mills

      Michael Mills was an Ireland journalist who served as Ireland's first Ombudsman for two terms beginning in 1984. He retired from the office in 1994....
  • 1982 (54th
    54th Academy Awards

    The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1982 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson....
    ) Crac
    CRAC

    CRAC might refer to:* The CRAC-II "Calculation of Reactor Accident Consequences" study.* A castle, as in Krak des Chevaliers.* A Computer Room Air Conditioner....
     - Société Radio Canada - Frédéric Back
    Frédéric Back

    Fr?d?ric Back, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is an award-winning Canada animator.Born in Saarbr?cken, Germany, he emigrated to Canada in 1948....
    • The Creation - Will Vinton Productions - Will Vinton
      Will Vinton

      Will Vinton is an United States director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, Oregon, near Portland, Oregon. He has won an Academy Awards for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio....
    • The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Janet Perlman
  • 1983 (55th
    55th Academy Awards

    The 55th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1983 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau....
    )     Tango     - Film Polski - Zbigniew Rybczynski
    Zbigniew Rybczynski

    Zbigniew Rybczynski is an Academy Award winning Polish filmmaker who has won numerous prestigious industry awards both in the United States and internationally....
    • The Great Cognito - Will Vinton Productions - Will Vinton
      Will Vinton

      Will Vinton is an United States director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, Oregon, near Portland, Oregon. He has won an Academy Awards for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio....
    • The Snowman
      The Snowman

      The Snowman is a children's book by England author Raymond Briggs, published in 1978. In 1982, this book was turned into a 26-minute animated movie by Dianne Jackson for the fledgling Channel 4....
       - Snowman Enterprises Ltd. - Dianne Jackson
      Dianne Jackson

      Dianne Jackson was an England animation Film director, best known for The Snowman, made in 1982 and subsequently repeated every Christmas on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom....
  • 1984 (56th
    56th Academy Awards

    The 56th Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1984 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson....
    ) Sundae in New York - Motionpicker Production - Jimmy Picker
    • Mickey's Christmas Carol
      Mickey's Christmas Carol

      Mickey's Christmas Carol is a twenty-four minute animation short film produced by The Walt Disney Company and originally released in the United Kingdom on October 20, 1983 by Buena Vista Distribution....
       - Walt Disney Productions - Burny Mattinson
      Burny Mattinson

      Burny Mattinson is a Disney animator and storyboard artist. He has worked at Disney since 1953. He has directed both the Great Mouse Detective and Mickey's Christmas Carol which he won an award for....
    • Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain - Hallinan Plus - Eda Hallinan
  • 1985 (57th
    57th Academy Awards

    The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Jack Lemmon....
    )     Charade     - Sheridan College - Jon Minnis
    • Doctor Desoto
      Doctor DeSoto

      Doctor De Soto is a 1982 book by William Steig that won a Newbery Honor. At a mere 32 pages, it is one of the shortest books to receive the award....
       - Sporn Animation - Morton Schindel
      Morton Schindel

      Morton Schindel is an American educator and producer, the founder of Weston Woods Studios, which specializes in adapting children's books into animated films....
       and Michael Sporn
      Michael Sporn

      Michael Sporn is an American animator who founded his New York-based company, Michael Sporn Animation in 1980, and has produced and directed numerous animated TV specials and short spots....
    • Paradise - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Ishu Patel
      Ishu Patel

      Ishu Patel is independent filmmaker and animator from India. He is one of the "key filmmakers" of the National Film Board of Canada. Patel is currently teaching animation and storytelling to animation students in India....
  • 1986 (58th
    58th Academy Awards

    The 58th Academy Awards, honoring the 1985 in film, were held on March 24 1986 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams....
    ) Anna & Bella
    Anna & Bella

    Anna & Bella is a 1984 in film animated short film from the Netherlands. At the 58th Academy Awards, Anna & Bella won an Academy Award for Best Short Film ....
     - The Netherlands - Børge Ring
    • The Big Snit
      The Big Snit

      The Big Snit is a 10-minute short-subject animated cartoon written and directed by Richard Condie and produced by the National Film Board of Canada....
       - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Richard Condie
      Richard Condie

      Richard Condie, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts is a Canada animator and film maker.Condie received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba....
       and Michael Scott
      Michael Scott (filmmaker)

      'Michael "Dorkman" Scott' is a Los Angeles-based independent filmmaker, best known for his visual effects work in Star Wars-related films Ryan vs....
    • Second Class Mail - National Film & Television School - Alison Snowden
      Alison Snowden

      Alison Snowden is a voice actress, producer, and screenwriter best known for Bob and Margaret....
  • 1987 (59th
    59th Academy Awards

    The 59th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Paul Hogan....
    )     A Greek Tragedy     - CineTe pvba - Linda Van Tulden and Willem Thijsen
    • The Frog, The Dog and The Devil - New Zealand National Film Unit - Hugh MacDonald and Martin Townsend
    • Luxo Jr.
      Luxo Jr.

      Luxo Jr. is the first film produced in 1986 by Pixar, following its establishment as an independent film studio. It is a computer animation short film , demonstrating the kind of things the newly-established company was capable of producing....
       - Pixar
      Pixar

      Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. To date, the studio has earned twenty-two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, and three Grammy, among many other awards, acknowledgments and achievements....
       Productions - John Lasseter
      John Lasseter

      John Alan Lasseter is an Academy Award-winning United States animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios....
       and William Reeves
      William Reeves

      William Reeves, also known as Bill, is a pioneer in the field of computer graphics. He was the technical director who worked with John Lasseter on the animation breakthrough shorts: Luxo Jr and The Adventures of Andr? and Wally B.....
  • 1988 (60th
    60th Academy Awards

    The 60th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1988 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was the first to be held there since the 20th Academy Awards....
    ) The Man Who Planted Trees
    The Man Who Planted Trees

    The Man Who Planted Trees , also known as The Story of Elz?ard Bouffier, The Most Extraordinary Character I Ever Met, and The Man Who Planted Hope and Reaped Happiness, is an allegorical short story by France author Jean Giono, published in 1953....
     - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , a Canada crown corporation, is the country?s national public radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Soci?t? Radio-Canada ....
     - Frédéric Back
    Frédéric Back

    Fr?d?ric Back, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is an award-winning Canada animator.Born in Saarbr?cken, Germany, he emigrated to Canada in 1948....
    • George and Rosemary - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Eunice Macauley
    • Your Face (film)
      Your Face (film)

      Your Face is a 1987 Academy Awards-nominated animated short by Bill Plympton. It involves a man seated in a chair crooning about the face of his lover, and as he sings, his own face starts to distort in various different ways....
       - Bill Plympton
      Bill Plympton

      Bill Plympton is an United States Animation best known for his 1987 Academy Awards-nominated animated short Your Face ....
  • 1989 (61st
    61st Academy Awards

    The 61st Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles....
    )     Tin Toy
    Tin Toy

    Tin Toy is a 1988 Pixar Animation Studios short film using computer animation. It was directed by John Lasseter and won the 1989 Academy Award for Animated Short Film....
     - Pixar Productions - John Lasseter
    John Lasseter

    John Alan Lasseter is an Academy Award-winning United States animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios....
     and William Reeves
    William Reeves

    William Reeves, also known as Bill, is a pioneer in the field of computer graphics. He was the technical director who worked with John Lasseter on the animation breakthrough shorts: Luxo Jr and The Adventures of Andr? and Wally B.....
    • The Cat Came Back
      The Cat Came Back (1988 film)

      The Cat Came Back is a 1988 in film animation film by Canada film director Cordell Barker, produced by fellow award-winning Winnipeg animator Richard Condie....
       - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Cordell Barker
      Cordell Barker

      Cordell Barker is considered to be one of Canada?s best animators. He was born in 1957 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and began animating in his late teens, after taking on an apprenticeship at Kenn Perkins Animation....
    • Technological Threat - Bill Kroyer
      Bill Kroyer

      Bill Kroyer is the Director of FernGully: The Last Rainforest, and was instrumental in the development and production of Animalympics.He currently works and Rhythm and Hues Studios as a Senior Animation Director....
  • 1990 (62nd
    62nd Academy Awards

    The 62nd Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was not only hosted in Hollywood, California, but it was also co-hosted in five cities around the globe....
    ) Balance - producers: Wolfgang
    Wolfgang Lauenstein

    Wolfgang Lauenstein is a Germany film producer and animator.Lauenstein entered the School of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany in 1985. While enrolled at the school Lauenstein, together with his twin brother Christoph Lauenstein, created the animated short film Balance ....
     and Christoph Lauenstein
    Christoph Lauenstein

    Christoph Lauenstein is a Germany film producer and animator.Lauenstein entered the School of Fine Arts in Kassel, Germany in 1985. While enrolled at the school Lauenstein, together with his twin brother Wolfgang Lauenstein, created the animated short film Balance ....
    • The Hill Farm - Mark Baker
      Mark Baker (animator)

      Mark Baker is a three-times Academy Awards Academy Award for Animated Short Film England animator whose films include The Hill Farm. In 2003 he participated in the collaborative project Winter Days....
    • The Cow - Aleksandr Petrov


1990s

  • 1991 (63rd
    63rd Academy Awards

    The 63rd Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1991 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. The show was hosted by Billy Crystal.The prominent winner was the film Dances with Wolves which earned three major awards....
    )     Creature Comforts
    Creature Comforts

    Creature Comforts was originally a 1989 short film made in United Kingdom about how animals feel about living in a zoo, and later became a series of commercials for Heat Electric....
     - Nick Park
    Nick Park

    Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, Order of the British Empire is a four-time Academy Awards-winning England filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit....
    • A Grand Day Out
      A Grand Day Out

      A Grand Day Out is an award-nominated 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit....
       - Nick Park
      Nick Park

      Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, Order of the British Empire is a four-time Academy Awards-winning England filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit....
    • Grasshoppers
      Grasshoppers (Cavallette)

      Grasshoppers is an animated short by Bruno Bozzetto which condenses the whole of human civilization into 9 minutes, focusing primarily on the human race's predilection for warfare....
       - Bruno Bozzetto
      Bruno Bozzetto

      Bruno Bozzetto is an Italian cartoon animator, creator of many short pieces, mainly of a political or satirical nature. He created his first animated short "Tapum! the weapons' story" in 1958 at the age of 20....
  • 1992 (64th
    64th Academy Awards

    The 64th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was the third consecutive to be hosted by Billy Crystal....
    ) Manipulation - Daniel Greaves
    • Blackfly - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Christopher Hinton
    • Strings - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Wendy Tilby
  • 1993 (65th
    65th Academy Awards

    The 65th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1993 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was hosted by Billy Crystal.Unforgiven won four awards including Academy Award for Best Picture....
    )     Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase     - Joan C. Gratz
    • Adam
      Adam (1991 film)

      Adam is a 1991 6-minute animated short film written, animated and directed by Peter Lord that was nominated for an academy award for best short film, and won the equivalent award at British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1992 as well as the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 1993....
       - Peter Lord
      Peter Lord

      Peter Lord Order of the British Empire is a British film Film producer, Film director and co-founder of the Academy Awards-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay animation films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace & Gromit....
    • Reci, Reci, Reci... - Michaela Pavlátová
    • The Sandman
      The Sandman (1991 film)

      The Sandman is a 1991 stop-motion animation film, animated and directed by Paul Berry and nominated for an ?Academy Award? for Academy Award for Animated Short Film#1990s in 1992....
       - Paul Berry
      Paul Berry (animator)

      Paul Berry was a stop-motion animator and director of the 1991 "Oscar" nominated short horror stop-motion animation film The Sandman . In 1992 the film was awarded the Craft Prize for Best Animation at Ottawa International Animation Festival....
    • Screen Play - Barry Purves
      Barry Purves

      Barry J.C. Purves is an England animator, Film director and Screenwriter of Stop motion and also a Scenic design and Theatre director of Play , primarily for the Altrincham Garrick Theater in Manchester....
  • 1994 (66th
    66th Academy Awards

    The 66th Academy Awards were presented March 21, 1994 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was landmark in that it featured a female African American host for the first time, Whoopi Goldberg, and represented a direct contrast in edgy style from Billy Crystal who had hosted the show the previous four years....
    ) The Wrong Trousers
    The Wrong Trousers

    The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 in film animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit....
     - Nick Park
    Nick Park

    Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, Order of the British Empire is a four-time Academy Awards-winning England filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit....
    • Blindscape - Stephen Palmer
    • The Mighty River - Frédéric Back
      Frédéric Back

      Fr?d?ric Back, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is an award-winning Canada animator.Born in Saarbr?cken, Germany, he emigrated to Canada in 1948....
       and Hubert Tison
    • Small Talk
      Small Talk (film)

      Small Talk is a 1929 in film Our Gang short subject comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 86th entry in the Our Gang series to be released, and the first to be made with film sound....
       - Bob Godfrey
      Bob Godfrey

      Robert Frederick Godfrey is a distinguished British animator whose career spans more than fifty years. He is probably best known for the children's cartoon series Roobarb , Noah and Nelly in the Skylark and Henry's Cat and for the Trio chocolate biscuit advertisements shown in the UK during the early 1980s....
       and Kevin Baldwin
    • The Village - Mark Baker
      Mark Baker (animator)

      Mark Baker is a three-times Academy Awards Academy Award for Animated Short Film England animator whose films include The Hill Farm. In 2003 he participated in the collaborative project Winter Days....
  • 1995 (67th
    67th Academy Awards

    The 67th Academy Awards, honoring the 1994 in film, were held on March 27, 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by well-known comedian and talk show host David Letterman....
    )     Bob's Birthday     - National Film Board of Canada
    National Film Board of Canada

    The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
     co-production - Alison Snowden
    Alison Snowden

    Alison Snowden is a voice actress, producer, and screenwriter best known for Bob and Margaret....
     and David Fine
    • The Big Story - Tim Watts
      Tim Watts

      Tim Watts is an Academy Awards-nominated short film maker and caricaturist on TV's Spitting Image. Watts won the BAFTA award with longtime collaborator, David Stoten in 1994 for The Big Story....
       and David Stoten
      David Stoten

      David Stoten is an Academy Awards-nominated short film maker and caricaturist on TV's Spitting Image. Stoten won the BAFTA award with longtime collaborator, Tim Watts in 1994 for The Big Story....
    • The Janitor - Vanessa Schwartz
    • The Monk and the Fish
      The Monk and the Fish

      The Monk and the Fish is a 1994 Animation Short subject made by Micha?l Dudok de Wit at the studio Folimage. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 67th Academy Awards and Best Short Animated Film at the 48th British Academy Film Awards....
       - Michael Dudok de Wit
      Michaël Dudok De Wit

      Michael Dudok de Wit is an animator, Film director and illustrator. In 1978, he graduated from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College with his first film The Interview....
    • Triangle - Erica Russell
  • 1996 (68th
    68th Academy Awards

    The 68th Academy Awards was held on March 25, 1996 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The show was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg....
    ) A Close Shave
    A Close Shave

    A Close Shave is a 1995 animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his third half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but intelligent dog Gromit, following 1989's A Grand Day Out, and 1993's The Wrong Trousers....
     - Nick Park
    Nick Park

    Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, Order of the British Empire is a four-time Academy Awards-winning England filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit....
    • The Chicken From Outer Space
      The Chicken from Outer Space

      "The Chicken from Outer Space" is a cartoon short by John R. Dilworth that featured the first appearance of Courage, the Cowardly Dog, and his owners, Eustace and Muriel Bagge, thus starting the Courage the Cowardly Dog series....
       - John Dilworth
    • The End - Chris Landreth
      Chris Landreth

      Chris Landreth is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film, Ryan . He has made many Computer-generated imagery animated films since the mid-90s, including The End, Bingo, The Listener, Caustic Sky: A Portrait of Regional Acid Deposition, and Data Driven The Story Of Franz K....
       and Robin Barger
    • Gagarin - Alexiy Kharitidi
    • Runaway Brain
      Runaway Brain

      Runaway Brain is an Academy Awards nominated 7-minute animation short-subject produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation Paris, and starring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse....
       - Chris Bailey
      Chris Bailey (animator)

      Chris Bailey has had experience in both 2D animation and 3D animation.He worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation as an animator for The Little Mermaid , The Lion King, and Hercules ....
  • 1997 (69th
    69th Academy Awards

    The 69th Academy Awards were dominated by movies produced by independent studios, financed outside of mainstream Hollywood, California, leading to 1997 being dubbed "The Year of the Independents"....
    )     Quest
    Quest (short film)

    Quest is a 1996 in film Cinema of Germany animation Short subject directed by Tyron Montgomery, written and produced by Thomas Stellmach. It won several awards including the Academy Award for Animated Short Film#1990s....
     - Tyron Montgomery
    Tyron Montgomery

    Tyron Montgomery is an Oscar winning film director and media creative. Originally raised in Ireland, near Limerick, Montgomery today is a German citizen, living and working in Munich....
     and Thomas Stellmach
    Thomas Stellmach

    Thomas Stellmach directed, animated and produced several independent films and received many international awards e.g. the Oscar? of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1997 granted for the puppet animation film Quest ....
    • Canhead - Timothy Hittle
    • La Salla - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Richard Condie
      Richard Condie

      Richard Condie, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts is a Canada animator and film maker.Condie received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba....
    • Wat's Pig - Peter Lord
      Peter Lord

      Peter Lord Order of the British Empire is a British film Film producer, Film director and co-founder of the Academy Awards-winning Aardman Animations studio, an animation firm best known for its clay animation films and shorts, particularly those featuring plasticine duo Wallace & Gromit....
  • 1998 (70th
    70th Academy Awards

    The 70th Academy Awards were noted for their high ratings and the 11 wins racked up by the Academy Award for Best Picture, Titanic . Billy Crystal hosted the ceremony for the sixth time, and received an Emmy Awards for his performance....
    ) Geri's Game
    Geri's Game

    Geri's Game is a five-minute Computer animation short film made by Pixar in 1997 in film. It was written and directed by Jan Pinkava. It was the first Pixar Short created after the creation of Toy Story, the previous short being Knick Knack in 1989....
     - Pixar Animation Studios - Jan Pinkava
    Jan Pinkava

    Dr. Jan Jaroslav Pinkava is the director and writer of the Pixar Oscar-winning 1997 short film Geri's Game and the originator and co-director of Pixar's Oscar-winning 2007 film Ratatouille ....
    • Famous Fred - Joanna Quinn
      Joanna Quinn

      Joanna Quinn is an England animator. She was born in Birmingham. She received an Academy Awards nomination for Famous Fred, nominated in 1998....
    • Mermaid - Aleksandr Petrov
    • Redux Riding Hood
      Redux Riding Hood

      Redux Riding Hood is an Short subject film produced by Disney in 1998 that received an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film....
       - Walt Disney Pictures - Steve Moore
    • La Vieille dame et les pigeons - Sylvain Chomet
      Sylvain Chomet

      Sylvain Chomet is a France animator and film director....
  • 1999 (71st
    71st Academy Awards

    The 71st Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Music Center, and was Whoopi Goldberg third time hosting the Awards....
    )     Bunny     - Blue Sky Studios
    Blue Sky Studios

    Blue Sky Studios is a CGI-animation studio which specializes in photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering....
     - Chris Wedge
    Chris Wedge

    'John Christian "Chris" Wedge' is an American film director, best known for the films Ice Age and Robots is Robots 2 ....
    • The Canterbury Tales - Christopher Grace and Jonathan Myerson
      Jonathan Myerson

      Jonathan Myerson is a British dramatist, writing principally for television and radio. His latest work includes Number 10 , a five-part series for BBC Radio 4 about a fictional Prime Minister and his staff in Downing Street....
    • Jolly Roger - Mark Baker
      Mark Baker (animator)

      Mark Baker is a three-times Academy Awards Academy Award for Animated Short Film England animator whose films include The Hill Farm. In 2003 he participated in the collaborative project Winter Days....
    • More
      More (short)

      More is a stop motion short film created by Mark Osborne in 1998....
       - Mark Osborne and Steven B. Kalafer
    • When Life Departs
      When Life Departs

      When Life Departs is a 1997 in film animated short film directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Karsten Kiilerich. The film illustrates the various thoughts children have about death....
       - Karsten Kiilerich and Stefan Fjeldmark
  • 2000 (72nd
    72nd Academy Awards

    The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony took place at Los Angeles, California Shrine Auditorium, and was Billy Crystal's seventh time hosting the Awards....
    ) The Old Man and the Sea
    The Old Man and the Sea (1999 film)

    The Old Man and the Sea is a 1999 in film paint-on-glass animation short film directed by Aleksandr Petrov , based on the The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway....
     - Aleksandr Petrov
    • 3 Misses - Paul Driessen
      Paul Driessen (animator)

      Paul Driessen is a Netherlands film director, animator and writer. His short films have won more than fifty prizes all over the world, including the Life Achievement Awards at both Ottawa and Zagreb animation festivals, and an Academy Award nomination for "3 misses"....
    • Humdrum
      Humdrum

      Humdrum is an animated short film directed by Peter Peake. It was released in 1998 in film and produced by Aardman Animations and received an Academy Awards nomination for Academy Award for Animated Short Film and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts nomination in the same category....
       - Peter Peake
    • My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       co-production - Torill Kove
      Torill Kove

      Torill Kove is a Norway born Canadian film director and animator. She won the 2007 Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the film The Danish Poet, co-produced by Norway's Mikrofilm AS and the National Film Board of Canada...
    • When the Day Breaks - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
       - Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis


2000s

  • 2001
    2001 in film

    The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ...
     (73rd
    73rd Academy Awards

    The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at the Los Angeles, California Shrine Auditorium. It was hosted by first-time host Steve Martin, who was nominated for an Emmy Awards for his presentation....
    )     Father and Daughter
    Father and Daughter (film)

    Father and Daughter is a 2000 Netherlands animation short film, made by Micha?l Dudok De Wit. It won the 2000 Academy Award for Animated Short Film....
     - Michaël Dudok De Wit
    Michaël Dudok De Wit

    Michael Dudok de Wit is an animator, Film director and illustrator. In 1978, he graduated from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College with his first film The Interview....
    • The Periwig-Maker - Steffen Schäffler and Annette Schäffler
    • Rejected
      Rejected

      Rejected is a 2000 animated short comedy film by Don Hertzfeldt that was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award for Academy Award for Animated Short Film....
       - Don Hertzfeldt
      Don Hertzfeldt

      Don Hertzfeldt is the creator of many short animated films, including the Academy-Award nominated cult favorite Rejected and Everything Will Be OK....


  • 2002
    2002 in film

    The year '2002 in film' involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Stuart Litt...
     (74th
    74th Academy Awards

    The 74th Academy Awards honored the 2001 in film and were held on March 24 2002, for the first time at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
    ) For the Birds - Pixar Animation Studios - Ralph Eggleston
    Ralph Eggleston

    Ralph Eggleston is an art director and writer at Pixar. He directed the Academy Award-winning short For the Birds , which premiered with Monsters Inc....
    • Fifty Percent Grey - Ruairi Robinson
      Ruairi Robinson

      Ruairi Robinson is an Academy Award-nominated Ireland film director and writer. He is known mainly for his science-fiction short films and animations, one of which was nominated for an Academy Award....
       and Seamus Byrne
    • Give Up Yer Aul Sins - Cathal Gaffney and Darragh O'Connell
    • Strange Invaders - Cordell Barker
      Cordell Barker

      Cordell Barker is considered to be one of Canada?s best animators. He was born in 1957 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and began animating in his late teens, after taking on an apprenticeship at Kenn Perkins Animation....
       - National Film Board of Canada
      National Film Board of Canada

      The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
    • Stubble Trouble
      Stubble Trouble

      "Stubble Trouble" is an animated short film produced under Calabash Animation and was directed by Joseph E. Merideth, a former animator for Calabash and a teacher of animation for Columbia College Chicago....
       - Joseph E. Merideth


  • 2003
    2003 in film

    The year '2003 in film' involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Freddy vs Jason, X2: X-Men Uni...
     (75th
    75th Academy Awards

    The 75th Academy Awards honored the 2002 in film, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was produced by Gilbert Cates and hosted by Steve Martin, who also hosted the 73rd Academy Awards....
    )     The ChubbChubbs!
    The ChubbChubbs!

    The ChubbChubbs! is a Academy-Award winning 2002 computer-animated Short film by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was produced by Jacquie Barnbrook, directed by Eric Armstrong and written by Jeff Wolverton....
     - Sony Pictures Animation
    Sony Pictures Animation

    Sony Pictures Animation is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, founded in 2002, which produces computer-animated films.Digital animation for their films is made by Sony Pictures ImageWorks....
     - Jacquie Barnbrook, Eric Armstrong and Jeff Wolverton
    • Katedra
      The Cathedral

      The Cathedral is the title of a science fiction short story by Jacek Dukaj, winner of the Janusz A. Zajdel Award in 2000; and of a 2002 short subject animated movie by Tomasz Baginski, based on the story....
       - Tomek Baginski
    • Mike's New Car
      Mike's New Car

      Mike's New Car is a 2002 Pixar animated short, starring the two main characters from Monsters Inc., Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan ....
       - Pixar Animation Studios - Gale Gortney
    • Mt. Head - Koji Yamamura
      Koji Yamamura

      is a Japanese animation director....
    • Das Rad
      Das Rad

      Das Rad is a German language animated film written and directed by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel and Heidi Wittlinger. It was produced using a mixture of stop motion, puppetry, and Computer-generated imagery animation....
       - Georg Gruber


  • 2004
    2004 in film

    The year '2004 in film' involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ,The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Shrek 2, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs....
     (76th
    76th Academy Awards

    The 76th Academy Awards ceremony honored the 2003 in film and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on American Broadcasting Company beginning at 5:30 p.m....
    ) Harvie Krumpet
    Harvie Krumpet

    Harvie Krumpet is an Australian claymation, made in Melbourne by Adam Elliot . This short film won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003, in addition to numerous festival awards and the 2004 Australian Film Institute Best Short Animation award....
     - Adam Elliot
    Adam Elliot

    Adam Elliot is an Australian animator, best known for his Academy-Award winning claymation Harvie Krumpet....
    • Boundin'
      Boundin'

      Boundin' is a 2003 Academy Awards-nominated short film, shown at the start of the Walt Disney Pictures-Pixar film The Incredibles. The film was written, directed, narrated and featured the musical composition and performance of veteran PIXAR animator Bud Luckey....
       - Pixar Animation Studios - Bud Luckey
      Bud Luckey

      William "Bud" Luckey is an United States cartoonist, animator, singer, musician, and composer. He is best known for his work at Pixar as a character designer for Toy Story, Boundin, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars , The Incredibles, and Ratatouille ....
    • Gone Nutty
      Gone Nutty

      Gone Nutty 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....
       - Blue Sky Studios - Carlos Saldanha
      Carlos Saldanha

      Carlos Saldanha is the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown , and the co-director of Ice Age and Robots . He is currently directing Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ....
       and John C. Donkin
    • Nibbles - Chris Hinton
    • Destino
      Destino

      Destino is a short animated cartoon released in 2003 by The Walt Disney Company. Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual release....
       - Walt Disney Pictures - Dominique Monfery and Roy Edward Disney


  • 2005
    2005 in film

    The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,    The Devil's Rejects, Saw II, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, ''The Ring Two, ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, ''xXx: State of the Union, ''Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous...
     (77th
    77th Academy Awards

    The 77th Academy Awards honored the 2004 in film and were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock....
    )     Ryan
    Ryan (film)

    Ryan is a 2004 in film animated documentary by Chris Landreth about the influential Canada animator Ryan Larkin, who in later years lived on skid row in Montreal following a history of drug abuse and alcohol abuse....
     - Chris Landreth
    Chris Landreth

    Chris Landreth is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film, Ryan . He has made many Computer-generated imagery animated films since the mid-90s, including The End, Bingo, The Listener, Caustic Sky: A Portrait of Regional Acid Deposition, and Data Driven The Story Of Franz K....
     - National Film Board of Canada
    National Film Board of Canada

    The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
     co-production
    • Birthday Boy
      Birthday Boy

      Birthday Boy is a short subject animation made in 2004 by Sejong Park, while still only a student at the Australian Film Television and Radio School....
       - Sejong Park and Andrew Gregory
    • Gopher Broke - Jeff Fowler and Tim Miller
    • Guard Dog
      Guard dog

      A guard dog is a dog employed to guard against, and watch for, unwanted or unexpected people or animals.Both guard dogs and watch dogs bark to alert their owners of an intruder's presence and scare away the intruder....
       - Bill Plympton
      Bill Plympton

      Bill Plympton is an United States Animation best known for his 1987 Academy Awards-nominated animated short Your Face ....
    • Lorenzo
      Lorenzo (film)

      Lorenzo is a The Walt Disney Company animated short about a cat, Lorenzo, who is "dismayed to discover that his tail has developed a personality of its own." The short opens with Lorenzo lounging on the cushion....
       - Walt Disney Pictures - Mike Gabriel and Baker Bloodworth


  • 2006
    2006 in film

    The year '2006 in film' involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with Saw III, Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Casino Royale , Clerks II, X-Men: The Last Stand, Mission: Impossible III, Final Destination 3 and Scary Movie 4....
     (78th
    78th Academy Awards

    The 78th Academy Awards honored the 2005 in film and were held on March 5 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart....
    ) The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
    The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

    The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation is a 2005 in film Animation short subject.On March 5, 2006 it won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film....
     - John Canemaker
    John Canemaker

    John Canemaker is an Academy Awards-winning independent animator, animation historian, author, teacher and lecturer. In 1980, he began teaching and developing the animation program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts', Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Department....
    • Badgered
      Badgered

      Badgered is a 2005 in film Animation short subject, nominated on January 31, 2006 for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. The film was written, animated and directed by Sharon Colman and is voiced by Rupert Degas....
       - Sharon Colman
    • The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
      The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello

      The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello is a 2005 in film Academy Awards-nominated Animation short subject. The first episode is labeled Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship....
       - Anthony Lucas
    • 9
      9 (film)

      9, created by Shane Acker, is a Computer animation 2005 in film Academy Awards-nominated short subject, and will be adapted as a feature film distributed by Focus Features....
       - Shane Acker
    • One Man Band
      One Man Band (film)

      One Man Band is a Pixar short film. The film made its world premiere at the 29th Annecy Animation Festival in Annecy, France, and won the Platinum Grand Prize at the Future Film Festival in Bologna, Italy....
       - Pixar Animation Studios - Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews


  • 2007
    2007 in film

    The year '2007 in film' saw major releases such as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ,The Simpsons Movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers , TMNT , Saw IV, and Live Free or Die Hard as well as releases of third installment films, such as: The Bourne Ultimatum , Pirates of the Caribbean:...
     (79th
    79th Academy Awards

    The 79th Academy Awards ceremony , honored the 2006 in film and took place on February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on American Broadcasting Company....
    )     The Danish Poet
    The Danish Poet

    The Danish Poet is a 2006 animated short film written, directed, and animated by Torill Kove and narrated by Liv Ullmann. A co-production of the National Film Board of Canada and Mikrofilm AS of Norway, it has won both the Academy Award for Animated Short Film and Genie Award for Best Animated Short for best animated short film....
     - Torill Kove
    Torill Kove

    Torill Kove is a Norway born Canadian film director and animator. She won the 2007 Academy Award for Animated Short Film for the film The Danish Poet, co-produced by Norway's Mikrofilm AS and the National Film Board of Canada...
    • Lifted
      Lifted (film)

      Lifted is a 2006 Pixar animated short directed by Gary Rydstrom. This is the first film directed by Rydstrom, a seven-time Academy Award winning sound editor and mixer....
       - Pixar Animation Studios - Gary Rydstrom
      Gary Rydstrom

      Gary Roger Rydstrom is an United States seven-time Academy Award-winning sound designer and Film director.Rydstrom graduated from the University of Southern California USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1981....
    • The Little Matchgirl
      The Little Matchgirl (film)

      The Little Matchgirl is a 2006 Academy Award nominated animated short film directed by Roger Allers and produced by Don Hahn, who previously were involved in classic Disney animated films such as The Little Mermaid , Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin ....
       - Walt Disney Pictures - Roger Allers
      Roger Allers

      Roger Allers is a Animation Animation director and Storyboard Artist of Disney animated films. Away from the Disney studio, he directed the animated movie, Open Season for Sony....
       and Don Hahn
      Don Hahn

      Don Hahn is a film producer who has produced some of the most successful Walt Disney animated films of the past 20 years.Hahn began his career in animation working for Disney Legend Wolfgang Reitherman as an assistant director....
    • Maestro - Géza M. Tóth
    • No Time for Nuts
      No Time for Nuts

      No Time for Nuts is an Academy Award nominated, computer animated short film from Blue Sky Studios , starring Scrat of Ice Age fame, premiering on the DVD release of Ice Age: The Meltdown, much in the same vein as Gone Nutty on the previous movie's DVD release....
       - Blue Sky Studios - Chris Renaud
      Chris Renaud (animator)

      After graduating from Syracuse University with an illustration degree, Chris Renaud began work as a graphic designer in the sports entertainment industry....
       and Michael Thurmeier


  • 2008
    2008 in film

    The year '2008 in film' saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels such as Rambo , The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight , The X-Files: I...
     (80th
    80th Academy Awards

    The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 in film and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on American Broadcasting Company beginning at 5:30 p.m....
    ) Peter and the Wolf
    Peter and the Wolf (film)

    Peter & the Wolf is a short Poland-United Kingdom-Norway model animation film released in 2006. It was written and directed by Suzie Templeton, made in Se-ma-for Studios in L?dz, and has been shown both in cinemas and with live musical accompaniment....
     - Suzie Templeton
    Suzie Templeton

    Suzie Templeton is an Academy Award-winning director, animator and writer of stop motion animation films. She is best known for her 2006 animated Film adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf ....
     and Hugh Welchman
    • Even Pigeons Go To Heaven
      Even Pigeons Go To Heaven

      Even Pigeons Go To Heaven is a short film directed by Samuel Tourneux and released in 2007 in film. It was nominated for the 2007 Academy Award for best Academy Award for Animated Short Film....
       - Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse
    • I Met the Walrus
      I Met the Walrus

      I Met the Walrus is an animated film directed by Josh Raskin and produced by Jerry Levitan. The film stars Levitan and John Lennon. The film's pen illustration is by James Braithwaite and computer illustration is by Alex Kurina....
       - Josh Raskin
    • Madame Tutli-Putli
      Madame Tutli-Putli

      Madame Tutli-Putli is a 2007 Academy Award nominated stop motion-animated short film by Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, produced by the National Film Board of Canada ....
       - Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
    • My Love - Aleksandr Petrov


  • 2009
    2009 in film

    The year '2009 in film' has many new films to be released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels and remakes such as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , Friday the 13th , Terminator Salvation, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Saw VI, Transformers: Reven...
     (81st
    81st Academy Awards

    The 81st Academy Awards ceremony was held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor its selection of the best 2008 in film on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California....
    )     La Maison En Petits Cubes
    La Maison en Petits Cubes

    La Maison en Petits Cubes is a Anime short film created by Kunio Kato. It won the Grand Prize of the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2008 and the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2009....
     - Kunio Kato
    • Lavatory - Lovestory - Konstantin Bronzit
      Konstantin Bronzit

      Konstantin Eduardovich Bronzit is an award-winning Russian animator and animation film director.He is a graduate of the St. Petersburg Repin Institute of Fine Art in 1983....
    • Oktapodi
      Oktapodi

      Oktapodi is a 2007 French Computer animation Short subject that originated as a Graduate Student Project from Gobelins_. The short is about a pair of love struck octopuses who through a series of comical events are separated and find each other....
       - Emud Mokhberi
      Emud Mokhberi

      Emud Mokhberi is an Iranian-American film director, screenwriter, Film producer and cinematographer. He attended UCLA and Gobelins_ in France....
       and Thierry Marchand
    • Presto
      Presto (film)

      Presto is a 2008 Pixar Computer animation Short subject shown in theaters before?and included on the DVD and Blu-ray release of?their feature length film WALL-E....
       - Doug Sweetland
      Doug Sweetland

      Doug Sweetland is a director/animator for Pixar. He has worked on many Pixar films, and was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation for Toy Story 2. He has recently made his directorial debut for Pixar with the short film, Presto , for which he was nominated for an Academy Award i...
    • This Way Up
      This Way Up (film)

      "This Way Up" is a 2008 short film directed by Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes. It follows the story of two undertakers trying to deliver a body to a graveyard....
       - Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes


See also

  • Academy Award for Live Action Short Film
    Academy Award for Live Action Short Film

    This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970....
  • Short subject
    Short subject

    Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American film industry in the early period of Film. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short film....
  • 50 Greatest Cartoons


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