Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
| Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| Formerly called |
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| First awarded | 1932 |
| Most recent winner | Dave Mullins Brad Booker War Is Over! (2023) |
| Website | oscars |
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."[1]
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).[2][3] 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 and Gromit series.
The Academy defines short as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits."[4] 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
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also
- Submissions for Best Animated Short Academy Award
- List of animation awards
- BAFTA Award for Best Short Film
- The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals
- List of animated short films
- List of Academy Award–nominated films
- Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
- Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
- List of Academy Awards for Walt Disney
- Arthouse animation
- Independent animation
- Adult animation
Notes
- ^ In 1949, Edward Selzer was originally announced as a nominee for Canary Row. However, he withdrew the film from nomination and it did not appear on the final ballot.
Superlatives
For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge:[3]
| Most awards | Walt Disney | 12 awards | [2] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most nominations | 39 nominations | ||
| Most consecutive years | 8 years (1931–1939) | ||
| Oldest winner | Walt Disney | 67 years, 130 days (posthumously, for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day) | |
| Youngest winner | Bob Gardiner | 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 | [8] |
| Longest winning film | The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | 34 minutes and 8 seconds | |
| Longest nominated film | Pear Cider and Cigarettes (2016) | 34 minutes and 56 seconds | [9] |
Multiple nominations and awards
The following is a list of animation studios or animators that earned multiple nominations and awards in this category.
| Studio | Nominations | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| Disney[10] | 51 | 15 |
| MGM | 23 | 9 |
| National Film Board of Canada | 38 | 6 |
| Warner Bros. | 27 | 5 |
| Pixar | 17 | 5 |
| United Productions of America | 14 | 3 |
| Aardman | 9 | 3 |
| John Hubley and Faith Hubley | 7 | 3 |
| BBC | 3 | 3 |
| Channel 4 | 6 | 2 |
| Frédéric Back | 4 | 2 |
| Sony Pictures Animation | 2 | 2 |
| Rembrandt | 5 | 1 |
| Bob Godfrey | 4 | 1 |
| Aleksandr Petrov | 4 | 1 |
| Will Vinton | 4 | 1 |
| Zagreb Film | 4 | 1 |
| Brandon | 3 | 1 |
| Passion Pictures Animation | 3 | 1 |
| Blue Sky | 3 | 1 |
| DePatie-Freleng | 2 | 1 |
| Fred Wolf | 2 | 1 |
| Motionpicker | 2 | 1 |
| Michael Mills | 2 | 1 |
| Dave Mullins | 2 | 1 |
| Pannonia Film Studio | 2 | 1 |
| Stephen Bosustow Productions | 2 | 1 |
| Walter Lantz | 10 | 0 |
| George Pal | 7 | 0 |
| Screen Gems | 6 | 0 |
| National Film & Television School | 6 | 0 |
| Fleischer | 4 | 0 |
| Terrytoons | 4 | 0 |
| Pathe Contemporary | 3 | 0 |
| Magic Light | 3 | 0 |
| Mark Baker | 3 | 0 |
| Melnitsa | 3 | 0 |
| Harman-Ising | 2 | 0 |
| Dago | 2 | 0 |
| Pyramid | 2 | 0 |
| TVC London | 2 | 0 |
| S4C | 2 | 0 |
| Brown Bag | 2 | 0 |
| Halas & Batchelor | 2 | 0 |
| Bill Plympton | 2 | 0 |
| Don Hertzfeldt | 2 | 0 |
| Folimage | 2 | 0 |
| Emanuele Luzzati | 2 | 0 |
| Konstantin Bronzit | 2 | 0 |
| Joanna Quinn | 2 | 0 |
Submissions
Animation historian Jerry Beck posted, on Cartoon Research, lists of animated shorts from various studios considered for nomination beginning with 1948—as documents prior could not be located—and ending so far with 1986.[11][12]
Between those years, the following documentations were also missing: 1949, 1950, 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985.[13][14][15]
1937–48
| Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1937
(10th) |
|
[16] |
| 1940
(13th) |
|
[17] |
| 1946
(19th) |
|
[18] |
| 1947
(20th) |
|
[19] |
| 1948
(21st) |
|
[11] |
1950s
| Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1951 |
|
[22] |
| 1952 |
|
[23] |
| 1953 |
|
[24] |
| 1954 |
|
[25] |
| 1955 |
|
[26] |
| 1956 |
|
[27] |
| 1957 |
|
[28] |
| 1958 |
|
[29] |
| 1959 |
|
[30] |
1960s
| Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1960
(33rd) |
|
[31] |
| 1961 |
|
[32] |
| 1962 |
|
[33] |
| 1963 |
|
[34] |
| 1964 |
|
[35] |
| 1965 |
|
[36] |
| 1966 |
|
[37] |
| 1967 |
|
[38] |
| 1968 |
|
[40] |
| 1969 |
|
[41] |
1970s
| Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1970
(43rd) |
|
[42] |
| 1971
(44th) |
|
[43] |
| 1972
(45th) |
|
[44] |
| 1973
(46th) |
|
[45] |
| 1974
(47th) |
|
[46] |
| 1975
(48th) |
|
[47] |
| 1977
(50th) |
|
[13] |
| 1978
(51st) |
|
[48] |
| 1979
(52nd) |
|
[49] |
1980s
| Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1980
(53rd) |
|
[50] |
| 1983
(56th) |
|
[14] |
| 1984
(57th) |
|
[51] |
| 1986
(59th) |
|
[52] |
2000s
| Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Daffy Duck for President (Warner Bros) | [53] |
| 2009
(82nd) |
|
[54] |
2010s
| Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2010
(83rd) |
|
[54] |
| 2011
(84th) |
|
[54][55] |
| 2012
(85th) |
|
[56] |
| 2013
(86th) |
|
[57] |
| 2014
(87th) |
|
[58] |
| 2015
(88th) |
|
[59] |
| 2016
(89th) |
|
[60] |
| 2017
(90th) |
|
[61] |
| 2018
(91st) |
|
[62][63] |
| 2019
(92nd) |
|
[64][65][66] |
2020s
| Year | Film (studio) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2020
(93rd) |
|
[67][68] |
| 2021
(94th) |
|
[69][70] |
| 2022
(95th) |
|
[71] |
| 2023
(96th) |
|
[72][73] |
Footnotes
- ^ (2007). Rule 19, Section III, Paragraph 7 80th Academy Award Rules for Distinguished Achievements Archived April 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 29, 2008.
- ^ a b "Search Results: 'Walt Disney'." Academy Awards Database. 2021.
- ^ a b "Academy Award Statistics." Academy Awards Database. Archived March 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Rule Nineteen: Short Films Awards Archived October 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- ^ "The Official Academy Awards Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on February 27, 2009. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
- ^ "Academy Awards 2017: Complete list of Oscar winners and nominees". Los Angeles Times. February 26, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
- ^ "90th Academy Award Animated Short Film Nominees". January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
- ^ Fresh Guacamole by PES | Oscar Nominated Short, March 7, 2013, retrieved February 3, 2024
- ^ Pear Cider and Cigarettes - official, January 16, 2022, retrieved February 3, 2024
- ^ Search Results: 'Production Company:Disney', 'Category:Short Film (Animated)'. Academy Awards Database. 2021.
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