Academy Award for Animated Short Film facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film |
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| Presented by | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) |
| Country | United States |
| First awarded | 1932 |
| Currently held by | Matthew A. Cherry Karen Rupert Toliver (for Hair Love, 2019) |
The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is a special prize given out every year at the Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars. This award celebrates the best short animated movies. It has been given out since 1932.
The award has had a few different names over the years. From 1932 to 1970, it was called "Short Subjects, Cartoons." Then, from 1971 to 1973, it was known as "Short Subjects, Animated Films." The name we use today, "Best Animated Short Film," started in 1974.
In the past, the award went to the people who produced the short films. But now, the award goes to the person who is most responsible for the movie's idea and how it was made. Sometimes, if more than one person was very important in making the film, a second award can be given.
For many years, only American films were nominated. But in 1952, a Canadian film called The Romance of Transportation in Canada won. This was a big change! The first non-English film to win was Ersatz (The Substitute) from Yugoslavia in 1961.
The very first film to win this award was Flowers and Trees by Walt Disney. Walt Disney holds the record for the most nominations (39) and wins (12) in this category. The Tom and Jerry cartoon series has won the most awards for a series, with 7 Oscars from 13 nominations. The National Film Board of Canada has won 6 Oscars, which is the most for an international studio. From Britain, Nick Park has won three times for Creature Comforts and his Wallace and Gromit films.
The Academy says a "short" film must be no longer than 40 minutes, including all the credits. Before the final nominees are announced, ten films are chosen for a special "shortlist."
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Winners and nominees
Here are some of the winners and nominees for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The films highlighted in yellow were the winners, and their titles and the names of the winners are shown in bold.
1930s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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| 1931–32 (5th) |
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| Flowers and Trees | Walt Disney | |
| It's Got Me Again! | Leon Schlesinger | |
| Mickey's Orphans | Walt Disney | |
| 1932–33 (6th) |
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| Three Little Pigs | Walt Disney | |
| Building a Building | Walt Disney | |
| The Merry Old Soul | Walter Lantz | |
| 1937 (10th) |
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| The Old Mill | Walt Disney | |
| Educated Fish | Max Fleischer | |
| The Little Match Girl | Charles Mintz |
1940s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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| 1940 (13th) |
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| The Milky Way | Harman-Ising | |
| Puss Gets the Boot | Fred Quimby | |
| A Wild Hare | Leon Schlesinger | |
| 1942 (15th) |
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| Der Fuehrer's Face | Walt Disney | |
| All Out for 'V' | Paul Terry | |
| Blitz Wolf | Fred Quimby | |
| Juke Box Jamboree | Walter Lantz | |
| Pigs in a Polka | Leon Schlesinger | |
| Tulips Shall Grow | George Pal | |
| 1946 (19th) |
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| The Cat Concerto | Fred Quimby | |
| John Henry and the Inky-Poo | George Pal | |
| Musical Moments from Chopin | Walter Lantz | |
| Squatter's Rights | Walt Disney | |
| Walky Talky Hawky | Edward Selzer |
1950s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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| 1950 (23rd) |
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| Gerald McBoing-Boing | Stephen Bosustow | |
| Jerry's Cousin | Fred Quimby | |
| Trouble Indemnity | Stephen Bosustow | |
| 1952 (25th) |
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| Johann Mouse | Fred Quimby | |
| Little Johnny Jet | Fred Quimby | |
| Madeline | Stephen Bosustow | |
| Pink and Blue Blues | ||
| Romance of Transportation | Tom Daly | |
| 1955 (28th) |
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| Speedy Gonzales | Edward Selzer | |
| Good Will to Men | Fred Quimby, William Hanna & Joseph Barbera | |
| The Legend of Rockabye Point | Walter Lantz | |
| No Hunting | Walt Disney |
1960s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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| 1960 (33rd) |
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| Munro | William L. Snyder | |
| Goliath II | Walt Disney | |
| High Note | Warner Bros. | |
| Mouse and Garden | ||
| A Place in the Sun | Frantisek Vystrecil | |
| 1961 (34th) |
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| Ersatz | Zagreb Film | |
| Aquamania | Walt Disney | |
| Beep Prepared | Chuck Jones | |
| Nelly's Folly | ||
| The Pied Piper of Guadalupe | Friz Freleng | |
| 1965 (38th) |
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| The Dot and the Line | Chuck Jones & Les Goldman | |
| Clay or The Origin of Species | Eli Noyes | |
| The Thieving Magpie | Emanuele Luzzati |
1970s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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| 1970 (43rd) |
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| Is It Always Right to Be Right? | Nick Bosustow | |
| The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam | Dale Case & Robert Mitchell | |
| The Shepherd | Cameron Guess | |
| 1972 (45th) |
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| A Christmas Carol | Richard Williams | |
| ... Rides Again | Bob Godfrey | |
| Tup Tup | Nedeljko Dragic | |
| 1974 (47th) |
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| Closed Mondays | Bob Gardiner & Will Vinton | |
| The Family That Dwelt Apart | Yvon Mallette & Robert Verrall | |
| Hunger | Peter Foldes & René Jodoin | |
| Voyage to Next | Faith & John Hubley | |
| Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too | Wolfgang Reitherman |
1980s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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| 1980 (53rd) |
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| The Fly | Ferenc Rofusz | |
| All Nothing | Frédéric Back | |
| History of the World in Three Minutes Flat | Michael Mills | |
| 1982 (55th) |
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| Tango | Zbigniew Rybczyński | |
| The Great Cognito | Will Vinton | |
| The Snowman | John Coates & Dianne Jackson | |
| 1987 (60th) |
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| The Man Who Planted Trees | Frédéric Back | |
| George and Rosemary | Eunice Macaulay | |
| Your Face | Bill Plympton |
1990s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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| 1990 (63rd) |
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| Creature Comforts | Nick Park | |
| A Grand Day Out | Nick Park | |
| Grasshoppers | Bruno Bozzetto | |
| 1993 (66th) |
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| The Wrong Trousers | Nick Park | |
| Blindscape | Stephen Palmer | |
| The Mighty River | Frédéric Back & Hubert Tison | |
| Small Talk | Kevin Baldwin & Bob Godfrey | |
| The Village | Mark Baker | |
| 1997 (70th) |
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| Geri's Game | Jan Pinkava | |
| Famous Fred | Joanna Quinn | |
| The Mermaid | Aleksandr Petrov | |
| The Old Lady and the Pigeons | Sylvain Chomet | |
| Redux Riding Hood | Steve Moore |
2000s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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| 2000 (73rd) |
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| Father and Daughter | Michaël Dudok de Wit | |
| The Periwig-Maker | Steffen & Annette Schäffler | |
| Rejected | Don Hertzfeldt | |
| 2001 (74th) |
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| For the Birds | Ralph Eggleston | |
| Fifty Percent Grey | Seamus Byrne & Ruairí Robinson | |
| Give Up Yer Aul Sins | Cathal Gaffney & Darragh O'Connell | |
| Strange Invaders | Cordell Barker | |
| Stubble Trouble | Joseph E. Merideth | |
| 2007 (80th) |
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| Peter & the Wolf | Suzie Templeton & Hugh Welchman | |
| Even Pigeons Go to Heaven | Samuel Tourneux & Simon Vanesse | |
| I Met the Walrus | Josh Raskin | |
| Madame Tutli-Putli | Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski | |
| My Love | Aleksandr Petrov |
2010s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
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| 2010 (83rd) |
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| The Lost Thing | Andrew Ruhemann & Shaun Tan | |
| Day & Night | Teddy Newton | |
| The Gruffalo | Max Lang & Jakob Schuh | |
| Let's Pollute | Geefwee Boedoe | |
| Madagascar, a Journey Diary | Bastien Dubois | |
| 2012 (85th) |
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| Paperman | John Kahrs | |
| Adam and Dog | Minkyu Lee | |
| Fresh Guacamole | PES | |
| Head Over Heels | Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly & Timothy Reckart | |
| The Longest Daycare | David Silverman | |
| 2016 (89th) |
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| Piper | Alan Barillaro & Marc Sondheimer | |
| Blind Vaysha | Theodore Ushev | |
| Borrowed Time | Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj | |
| Pear Cider and Cigarettes | Cara Speller & Robert Valley | |
| Pearl | Patrick Osborne | |
| 2019 (92nd) |
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| Hair Love | Matthew A. Cherry & Karen Rupert Toliver | |
| Daughter | Daria Kashcheeva | |
| Kitbull | Kathryn Hendrickson & Rosana Sullivan | |
| Mémorable | Bruno Collet & Jean-François Le Corre | |
| Sister | Siqi Song |
2020s
| 2020
(93rd) |
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Superlatives
Here are some interesting facts about the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film:
- Most awards: Walt Disney has won 12 awards.
- Most nominations: Walt Disney has been nominated 39 times.
- Shortest winning film: The Crunch Bird (1971) was only 2 minutes long.
- Longest winning film: Peter & the Wolf (2007) was 33 minutes long.
- Shortest nominated film: Fresh Guacamole (2012) was just 1 minute and 44 seconds long.
Multiple nominations and awards
This table shows which animation studios or animators have received many nominations and awards in this category.
| Studio | Nominations | Awards |
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| Disney | 49 | 18 |
| MGM | 23 | 9 |
| National Film Board of Canada | 36 | 6 |
| Warner Bros. | 26 | 5 |
| Pixar | 16 | 5 |
| United Productions of America | 14 | 3 |
| Aardman | 8 | 3 |
| John Hubley and Faith Hubley | 6 | 3 |
| Channel 4 | 6 | 2 |
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Société Radio-Canada | 4 | 2 |
| BBC | 3 | 2 |
| Sony Pictures Animation | 2 | 2 |
| Rembrandt | 5 | 1 |
| Will Vinton | 4 | 1 |
| Zagreb Film | 4 | 1 |
| Bob Godfrey | 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 |
| 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 |
| Harman-Ising | 2 | 0 |
| Dago | 2 | 0 |
| Pyramid | 2 | 0 |
| TVC London | 2 | 0 |
| S4C | 2 | 0 |
| Brown Bag | 2 | 0 |
| Melnitsa | 2 | 0 |
| Halas & Batchelor | 2 | 0 |
| Bill Plympton | 2 | 0 |
| Don Hertzfeldt | 2 | 0 |
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Óscar al mejor cortometraje animado para niños
