Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film#1950s
{{Short description|Annual award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}
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| name = Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
| presenter = Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
| country = United States
| year = {{start date and age|1932|11|18}} (for films released during the 1931/1932 film season)
| holder_label = Most recent winner
| holder = Shirin Sohani, Hossein Molayemi
In the Shadow of the Cypress (2024)
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The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1931–32, to the present.
From 1932 until 1970, the category was known as Short Subjects, Cartoons; and from 1971 to 1973 as Short Subjects, Animated Films. The present title began with the 46th Awards in 1974. During the first 5 decades of the award's existence, awards were presented to the producers of the shorts. Current Academy rules, however, call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film." Moreover, "[i]n the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded."(2007). [http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/rules/rule19.html Rule 19, Section III, Paragraph 7 80th Academy Award Rules for Distinguished Achievements] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409164709/http://www.oscars.org/80academyawards/rules/rule19.html |date=April 9, 2008}}. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
Only American films were nominated for the award until the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) was nominated for The Romance of Transportation in Canada in 1952. The first non-English-language international short to win was Zagreb Film's Ersatz (The Substitute) in 1961.
The first film to win in this category was Flowers and Trees by Walt Disney, who has since held the category's record for most nominations (39) and most wins (12)."[http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/Search/Nominations?nominationId=168&view=1-Nominee-Alpha Search Results: 'Walt Disney']." Academy Awards Database. 2021. MGM's Tom and Jerry (1940–67) is the category's most lauded animated series over all, being nominated for a total of 13 Oscars and winning 7. Warner Bros.'s Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series also had a big amount of 16 Oscar nominations and winning 5. Among international studios, the NFB has the most wins in this category, with 6 Oscars. The biggest showing from Britain in this category is Nick Park, with three wins: 1 for Creature Comforts and 2 for the Wallace & Gromit series.
The Academy defines short as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits."[http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/rule19.html Rule Nineteen: Short Films Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017110215/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/rule19.html |date=October 17, 2007 }}. Retrieved March 27, 2010. Fifteen films are shortlisted before nominations are announced. In the listings below, the title shown in boldface was the winner of the award in that given year, followed by the other nominees for that year.
Winners and nominees
All bars that are highlighted yellow were winners—with the title and name shown in boldface.
=1930s=
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! rowspan="3" |1931/32 |
| It's Got Me Again! |
| Mickey's Orphans |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1932/33 (6th) |
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| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Building a Building |
| The Merry Old Soul |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1934 (7th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Holiday Land |
| Jolly Little Elves |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1935 (8th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| The Calico Dragon |
| Who Killed Cock Robin? |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1936 (9th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| The Old Mill Pond |
| Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1937 (10th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Educated Fish |
| Little Match Girl |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1938 (11th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Brave Little Tailor
| rowspan="2"| Walt Disney |
| Good Scouts |
| Hunky and Spunky |
| Mother Goose Goes Hollywood |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1939 (12th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Detouring America |
| Peace on Earth |
| The Pointer |
=1940s=
=1950s=
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! rowspan="3" |1950 |
| Jerry's Cousin |
| Trouble Indemnity |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1951 (24th) |
|---|
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Lambert the Sheepish Lion |
| Rooty Toot Toot |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1952 (25th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Little Johnny Jet
| Fred Quimby |
| Madeline
| rowspan="2"|Stephen Bosustow |
| Pink and Blue Blues |
| Romance of Transportation
| Tom Daly |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1953 (26th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Christopher Crumpet |
| From A to Z-Z-Z-Z |
| Rugged Bear
| Walt Disney |
| The Tell-Tale Heart
| Stephen Bosustow |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1954 (27th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Crazy Mixed Up Pup |
| Pigs Is Pigs |
| Sandy Claws |
| Touché, Pussy Cat! |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1955 (28th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Good Will to Men |
| The Legend of Rockabye Point |
| No Hunting |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1956 (29th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo
| rowspan="2"|Stephen Bosustow |
| The Jaywalker |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1957 (30th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| One Droopy Knight |
| Tabasco Road
| Edward Selzer |
| Trees and Jamaica Daddy |
| The Truth About Mother Goose |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1958 (31st) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Paul Bunyan |
| Sidney's Family Tree
| William M. Weiss |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1959 (32nd) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Moonbird |
| Mexicali Shmoes |
| Noah's Ark |
| The Violinist |
=1960s=
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! rowspan="5" |1960 | Munro |
| Goliath II |
| High Note
| rowspan="2"|Warner Bros. |
| Mouse and Garden |
| A Place in the Sun
| František Vystrčil |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1961 (34th) |
|---|
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Ersatz |
| Aquamania |
| Beep Prepared
| rowspan="2"|Chuck Jones |
| Nelly's Folly |
| The Pied Piper of Guadalupe |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1962 (35th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| The Hole | Faith & John Hubley |
| Icarus Montgolfier Wright |
| Now Hear This |
| Self Defense—For Cowards |
| A Symposium on Popular Songs |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1963 (36th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Automania 2000 |
| The Game (Igra) |
| My Financial Career |
| Pianissimo |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1964 (37th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Christmas Cracker |
| Here's Nudnik
| rowspan="2"|William L. Snyder |
| How to Avoid Friendship |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1965 (38th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Les Goldman & Chuck Jones |
| Clay or The Origin of Species |
| The Thieving Magpie |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1966 (39th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature | Faith & John Hubley |
| The Drag |
| The Pink Blueprint |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1967 (40th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| The Box |
| Hypothese Beta
| Jean-Charles Meunier |
| What on Earth! |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1968 (41st) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | Walt Disney (p.n.) |
| The House That Jack Built
| Wolf Koenig & Jim MacKay |
| The Magic Pear Tree |
| Windy Day
| Faith & John Hubley |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1969 (42nd) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Of Men and Demons
| Faith & John Hubley |
| Walking |
=1970s=
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! rowspan="3" |1970 | Is It Always Right to Be Right? | Nick Bosustow |
| The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam
| Dale Case & Robert Mitchell |
| The Shepherd
| Cameron Guess |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1971 (44th) |
|---|
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Evolution |
| The Selfish Giant
| Gerald Potterton & Peter Sander |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1972 (45th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Kama Sutra Rides Again |
| Tup Tup |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1973 (46th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| The Legend of John Henry
| David Adams & Nick Bosustow |
| Pulcinella
| Guilo Gianini & Emanuele Luzzati |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1974 (47th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| The Family That Dwelt Apart
| Yvon Mallette & Robert Verrall |
| Hunger |
| Voyage to Next
| Faith & John Hubley |
| Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1975 (48th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Great |
| Kick Me |
| Monsieur Pointu
| René Jodoin, André Leduc & Bernard Longpré |
| Sisyphus |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1976 (49th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Leisure |
| Dedalo
| Manfredo Manfredi |
| The Street
| Guy Glover & Caroline Leaf |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1977 (50th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| The Bead Game |
| A Doonesbury Special
| Faith, John Hubley (p.n.) & Garry Trudeau |
| Jimmy the C
| Robert Grossman, James Picker & Craig Whitaker |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1978 (51st) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Oh My Darling
| Nico Crama |
| Rip Van Winkle |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1979 (52nd) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Dream Doll |
| It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House |
=1980s=
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! rowspan="3" |1980 | The Fly |
| All Nothing |
| History of the World in Three Minutes Flat |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1981 (54th) |
|---|
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Crac |
| The Creation |
| The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1982 (55th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Tango |
| The Great Cognito |
| The Snowman |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1983 (56th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Jimmy Picker |
| Mickey's Christmas Carol |
| Sound of Sunshine – Sound of Rain
| Eda Godel Hallinan |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1984 (57th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Charade |
| Doctor DeSoto |
| Paradise |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1985 (58th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| The Big Snit |
| Second Class Mail |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1986 (59th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Willem Thijsen & Linda Van Tulden |
| The Frog, the Dog and the Devil
| Bob Stenhouse |
| Luxo Jr. |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1987 (60th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| George and Rosemary |
| Your Face |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1988 (61st) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Tin Toy |
| The Cat Came Back |
| Technological Threat
| Brian Jennings & Bill Kroyer |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1989 (62nd) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Balance |
| The Cow |
| The Hill Farm |
=1990s=
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! rowspan="3" |1990 |
| A Grand Day Out
| Nick Park |
| Grasshoppers |
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | 1991 (64th) |
|---|
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Daniel Greaves |
| Blackfly |
| Strings |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1992 (65th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Adam |
| Reci, Reci, Reci... |
| The Sandman |
| Screen Play |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1993 (66th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Blindscape
| Stephen Palmer |
| The Mighty River
| Frédéric Back & Hubert Tison |
| Small Talk
| Kevin Baldwin & Bob Godfrey |
| The Village |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1994 (67th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| The Big Story |
| The Janitor
| Vanessa Schwartz |
| The Monk and the Fish |
| Triangle |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1995 (68th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| The Chicken from Outer Space |
| The End
| Robin Bargar & Chris Landreth |
| Gagarin
| Alexij Kharitidi |
| Runaway Brain |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 1996 (69th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Quest | Tyron Montgomery & Thomas Stellmach |
| Canhead
| Timothy Hittle & Chris Peterson |
| La Salla |
| Wat's Pig |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1997 (70th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Famous Fred |
| The Mermaid |
| The Old Lady and the Pigeons |
| Redux Riding Hood
| Steve Moore |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1998 (71st) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Bunny |
| The Canterbury Tales
| Christopher Grace & Jonathan Myerson |
| Jolly Roger |
| More
| Steven Kalafer & Mark Osborne |
| When Life Departs
| Stefan Fjeldmark & Karsten Kiilerich |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 1999 (72nd) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| 3 Misses |
| Humdrum
| Peter Peake |
| My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts |
| When the Day Breaks |
=2000s=
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! rowspan="3" |2000 |
| The Periwig-Maker
| Steffen & Annette Schäffler |
| Rejected |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2001 (74th) |
|---|
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Fifty Percent Grey
| Seamus Byrne & Ruairí Robinson |
| Give Up Yer Aul Sins
| Cathal Gaffney & Darragh O'Connell |
| Strange Invaders |
| Stubble Trouble
| Joseph E. Merideth |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2002 (75th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Eric Armstrong |
| The Cathedral |
| Das Rad
| Chris Stenner & Heidi Wittlinger |
| Mike's New Car
| Pete Docter & Roger L. Gould |
| Mt. Head |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2003 (76th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Boundin' |
| Destino |
| Gone Nutty
| John C. Donkin & Carlos Saldanha |
| Nibbles |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2004 (77th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Ryan |
| Birthday Boy
| Andrew Gregory & Sejong Park |
| Gopher Broke |
| Guard Dog |
| Lorenzo
| Baker Bloodworth & Mike Gabriel |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2005 (78th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation | John Canemaker & Peggy Stern |
| 9 |
| Badgered
| Sharon Colman |
| The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
| Anthony Lucas |
| One Man Band
| Mark Andrews & Andrew Jimenez |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2006 (79th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Lifted |
| The Little Matchgirl
| Roger Allers & Don Hahn |
| Maestro |
| No Time for Nuts |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2007 (80th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
| Samuel Tourneux & Simon Vanesse |
| I Met the Walrus
| Josh Raskin |
| Madame Tutli-Putli |
| My Love |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2008 (81st) |
| style="background:#FAEB86" |
| Lavatory – Lovestory |
| Oktapodi
| Thierry Marchand & Emud Mokhberi |
| Presto |
| This Way Up
| Adam Foulkes & Alan Smith |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2009 (82nd) |
| style="background:#FAEB86"
| Logorama | Nicolas Schmerkin |
| French Roast
| Fabrice Joubert |
| Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty |
| The Lady and the Reaper
| Javier Recio Gracia |
| A Matter of Loaf and Death |
=2010s=
=2020s=
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| rowspan="5" |2020/21 (93rd) | style="background:#FAEB86;" |If Anything Happens I Love You | style="background:#FAEB86;" |Michael Govier & Will McCormack |
|---|
| Burrow
|Michael Capbarat & Madeline Sharafian |
| Genius Loci
|Adrien Mérigeau & Amaury Ovise |
| Opera
|{{ill|Erick Oh|de|Erick Oh}} |
| Yes-People
|Arnar Gunnarsson & Gísli Darri Halldórsson |
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | 2021 (94th) | style="background:#FAEB86;" |The Windshield Wiper | style="background:#FAEB86;" | Alberto Mielgo & Leo Sanchez |
| Affairs of the Art
| Joanna Quinn and Les Mills |
| Bestia
| Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz |
| Boxballet
| Anton Dyakov |
| Robin Robin
| Dan Ojari and Mikey Please |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2022 (95th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86;" |The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
| style="background:#FAEB86;" | Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud |
| The Flying Sailor |
| Ice Merchants
| João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano |
| My Year of Dicks |
| An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | 2023 (96th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86;" | War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
| style="background:#FAEB86;" | Dave Mullins and Brad Booker |
| Letter to a Pig
| Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter |
| Ninety-Five Senses |
| Our Uniform
| Yegane Moghaddam |
| Pachyderme
| {{ill|Stéphanie Clément|de|Stéphanie Clément}} and Marc Rius |
| rowspan="7" style="text-align:center" | 2024 (97th) |
| style="background:#FAEB86;" | In the Shadow of the Cypress
| style="background:#FAEB86;" | Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi |
| Beautiful Men
| Nicolas Keppens and Brecht Van Elslande |
| Magic Candies
| Daisuke Nishio and Takashi Washio |
| Wander to Wonder
| Nina Gantz and Stienette Bosklopper |
| Yuck!
| Loïc Espuche and Juliette Marquet |
See also
- List of submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
- Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- List of submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- List of animation awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Short Film
- The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals
- List of animated short films
- List of Academy Award–nominated films
- Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
- List of Academy Awards for Walt Disney
- Arthouse animation
- Independent animation
- Adult animation
Notes
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Superlatives
For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge:"[http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/Help/Statistics?file=indexStats.html Academy Award Statistics]." Academy Awards Database. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301005626/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics%2FindexStats.html|date=March 1, 2009}}
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!Most awards | rowspan="4" |Walt Disney |12 awards |
| Most nominations
|39 nominations |
|---|
| Most consecutive years
|8 years (1931–1939) |
| Oldest winner
|67 years, 130 days (posthumously, for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day) | |
| Youngest winner
|24 years, 20 days (for Closed Mondays) | |
| Shortest winning film
|The Crunch Bird (1971) |2 minutes and 32 seconds | |
| Shortest nominated film
|Fresh Guacamole (2012) |1 minute and 40 seconds |
| Longest winning film
|The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022) |34 minutes and 8 seconds | |
| Longest nominated film
|Pear Cider and Cigarettes (2016) |34 minutes and 56 seconds |
Multiple nominations and awards
The following is a list of animation studios or animators that earned multiple nominations and awards in this category.
Footnotes
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