Submissions for Best Animated Short Academy Award explained
Animation historian Jerry Beck had posted on Cartoon Research lists of animated shorts from various studios considered for nomination of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, beginning with 1948 and ending for the time being with 1986.[1] [2]
According to Jerry, each film submitted to the Academy fall into one or more of these categories: “Craft”, “Heart” or “Humor”.[3]
Missing gaps on that site are 1949, 1950, 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985.[4] [5] [2]
Note: ± means the film was nominated for the award.
Notable films
1937
1940
1942
1943
1946
1947
1948
1950s
Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
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1951(23rd) | - Alpine for You (Famous Studios)
- By Leaps and Hounds (Famous Studios)
- Magic Canvas (Halas & Batchelor)
- One Cab's Family (MGM)[12]
- Gift Wrapped (Warner Bros)
- Little Beau Pepé (Warner Bros)
- Ballot Box Bunny (Warner Bros)
- Slingshot 6 7/8 (Walter Lantz/Universal International)
- Sing Again of Michigan (Famous Studios)
- To Boo or Not to Boo (Famous Studios)
- Sloppy Jalopy (UPA)
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1952 | - Around Is Around (NFB)
- The Case of the Cockeyed Canary (Famous Studios)
- Duck Amuck (Warner Bros)
- Gag and Baggage (Famous Studios)
- Gerald McBoing-Boing's Symphony (UPA)
- Ghost of the Town (Famous Studios)
- John Gilpin (Halas & Batchelor)
- Kermesse Fantastique (Josef Mizik)
- A Mouse Divided (Warner Bros)
- Mice Capades (Famous Studios)
- Popeye's Pappy (Famous Studios)
- The Little House (Disney)
- Termites from Mars (Walter Lantz/Universal International)
- Trick or Treat (Disney)
| [13] |
1953 | - Herman the Catoonist (Famous Studios)
- Hypnotic Hick (Walter Lantz/Universal International)[14]
- Starting from Hatch (Famous Studios)
- Just Ducky (MGM)
- Toreadorable (Famous Studios)
- The Figurehead (Louis de Rochemont Associates)
- The Flying Turtle (Walter Lantz/Universal International)
- Boo Moon (Famous Studios)
- Magoo Goes Skiing (UPA)
- No Place Like Rome (Famous Studios)
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1954 |
| [15] |
1955 | - A Job for a Gob (Famous Studios)
- Spooking for the Brogue (Famous Studios)
- Dizzy Dishes (Famous Studios)
- Magoo Makes News (UPA)
- Monsieur Herman (Famous Studios)
| [16] |
1956 | - A Cowboy Needs a Horse (Disney)
- A Short Vision (George K. Arthur)
- Down Beat Bear (MGM)
- Dutch Treat (Famous Studios)
- Hooked Bear (Disney)
- Hill-billing and Cooing (Famous Studios)
- Mousetro Herman (Famous Studios)
- Three Little Bops (WB)
- The Talking Dog (Walter Lantz/Universal International)
- How to Have An Accident in the Home (Disney)
- Pedro and Lorenzo (Famous Studios)
- Hill Billing and Cooing (Famous Studios)
- Calling All Cuckoos (Walter Lantz/Universal International)
| [17] |
1957 |
| [18] |
1958 |
| [19] |
1959 | - Down to Mirth (Famous Studios)
- Felineous Assault (Famous Studios)
- Hashimoto-san (Terrytoons)
- Little Bo Bopped (Columbia)
- Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy) (UPA)
- Picnics Are Fun and Dino's Serenade (UPA)
- TV Fuddlehead (Famous Studios)
- The Minute and a ½ Man (Terrytoons)
| [20] | |
1960s
Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
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1960(33rd) |
| [21] |
1961 | - Abner the Baseball (Famous Studios)
- Catch Meow (Columbia)
- Drum Roll (Terrytoons)
- Hawaiian Guy (UPA)
- Riding Hood Magoo (UPA)
- Sleeping Beauty (Jay Ward)
- Snidely's Monster (Jay Ward)
- The Lion and Albert (Robert Fenwick)
- The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit (MGM)
- Tree Spree (Terrytoons)
| [22] |
1962 | - The Astronauts (Argos Films)
- Banty Raids (WB)
- Barbara (Interlude Films)
- Europa (Pelican Films)
- Everyday Chronicle (Zagreb Film)
- Home Life (Terrytoons)
- The Old Man and the Flower (Ernest Pintoff)
- Petroushka (Fine Arts Films)
| [23] |
1963 | - How to Win on the Thruway (Gene Deitch)
- Operation Moonshot (Phil Davis and Dusan Vukotic)
- The Great Rights (William Hurtz)
- The Hangman (Paul Julian and Les Goldman)
- The Ringading Kid (Famous Studios)
- Spooki-Yaki (Terrytoons)
- Mouse Blanche (Famous Studios)
| [24] |
1964 | - A Finnish Fable (Carmen D’Vino)
- Breaking the Habit (John Korty)
- Dead and Sunrise (Eyvind Earle)
- Fix That Clock (Famous Studios)
- Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy (Terrytoons)
- Little Boy Bad (Columbia)
- Rooftop Razzle Dazzle (Universal-Lantz)
- The Hat (Hubley)
- Three Little Woodpeckers (Universal-Lantz)
| [25] |
1965 |
| [26] |
1966 |
| [28] |
1967 | - Calypso Singer (Paul Glickman)
- The Bear That Wasn't (MGM)
- Breath (Murakami-Wolf)
- Escalation (Ward Kimball)
- Norman Normal (WB)
- Numbers (Stefan Schabenbeck)
- Psychedelic Pink (DePatie-Freleng)
- Scrooge McDuck and Money (Disney)
- The Shooting of Dan McGrew (Universal)
- The Plumber (Paramount)
- My Daddy the Astronaut (Paramount)
- Why Are You Smiling, Mona Lisa? (Jiri Brdecka)
| [29] |
1968 |
| [31] |
1969 | - Anansi the Spider (Gerald McDermott)
- Permutations (John Whitney)
- Injun Trouble (WB)
- My Son the King (Bob Kurtz)
- Noises in the Night (Bosustow)
- Opera Cordis (Zagreb)
- Permutations (John Whitney)
- Scratch a Tiger (DePatie-Freleng)
- Shamrock and Roll (WB)
- The Caterpillar and the Wild Animals (Joseph Brenner Assiociates)
- The Great Walled City of Xan (University of Southern California)
- The Good Friend (Murakami-Wolf)
- The Giants (Gene Deitch)
- The Kidnapping Of The Sun And The Moon (Hungarofilm)
| [32] | |
1970s
1980s
2005
2009-present
Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
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2009(82nd) |
| [49] |
2010(83rd) |
| [50] |
2011(84th) | - A Shadow of Blue (Carlos Lascano)
- The Ballad of Nessie (Disney)
- Birdboy (Abrikim Studio)
- Chopin’s Drawings (BreakThru Films)
- Correspondence (Pratt)
- Cul de Bouteille (Jean-Claude Rozec)
- Daisy Cutter (Silverspace)
- El Salon Mexico (Paul Glickman and Tamarind King)
- Enrique Wrecks the World (David Chai)
- Ente Tod Und Tulipe (Trickstudio)
- Fat Hamster (BreakThru Films)
- The Gloaming (Autour De Minuit)
- Grandpa Looked Like William Powell (David Levy)
- Hamster Heaven (BreakThru Films)
- I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat (WB)
- I Was the Child of Holocaust Survivors (NFB)
- Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (Kevin Sean Michaels)
- Kahanikar (National Film and Television School)
- The Lost Town of Switez (Human Ark)
- Little Postman (BreakThru Films)
- Luminaris (Juan Pablo Zaramella)
- Luna (Rainmaker)
- The Magic Piano (Martin Clapp)
- Maska (Sem-ma-for)
- The Monster of Nix (Rosto)
- Muybridge’s Strings (Koji Yamamura)
- My Hometown (Eggplant)
- Night Island (BreakThru Films)
- Nullarbor (Alister Lockhart)
- Papa’s Boy (BreakThru Films)
- Paths of Hate (Platige Image)
- The Renter (CalArts)
- Romance (NFB & Studio GDS)
- (Sony Pictures Animation)
- Specky Four-Eyes (Vivement Lundi)
- Spirits of the Piano (BreakThru Films)
- The Tannery (Axis Animation)
- Thank You (Cartoon Network & Frederator)
- The Vermeers (Tal S. Shamir)
- Vincenta (Samuel Orti Marti)
| [51] [52] |
2012(85th) | - Combustible (Katsuhiro Otomo)
- Dripped (Léo Verrier)
- The Eagleman Stag (Michael Please)
- The Fall of the House of Usher (Raul Garcia)
- Tram (Pavlatova)
| [53] |
2013(86th) |
| [54] |
2014(87th) |
| [55] |
2015(88th) |
| [56] |
2016(89th) |
| [57] |
2017(90th) |
| [58] |
2018(91st) |
| [59] [60] |
2019(92nd) |
| [61] [62] |
2020(93rd) |
| [63] [64] |
2021(94th) |
| [65] [66] |
2022(95th) |
| [67] [68] |
2023(96th) | - 27 (Flóra Anna Buda)
- Boom (École des Nouvelles Images)
- Eeva (Lucija Mrzljak and Morten Tšinakov)
- Humo (Smoke) (Rita Basulto)
- I’m Hip (John Musker)
- A Kind of Testament (Stephen Vuillemin)
- Koerkorter (Dog Apartment)
- Once Upon a Studio (Disney)
- Pete
- Wild Summon (Karni Arieli)
| [69] [70] | |
See also
External links
Notes and References
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- Web site: Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1986 -. cartoonresearch.com.
- http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/cartoons-considered-for-an-academy-award-1978/ Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1978
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- Web site: Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1953 -. cartoonresearch.com.
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- Web site: Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1957 -. cartoonresearch.com.
- Web site: Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1958 -. cartoonresearch.com.
- Web site: Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1959 -. cartoonresearch.com.
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