


It’s not easy being a big green monster, especially in high school. What could possibly go wrong? (Nick Park, UK 2002, 2 min) In this classic from the British animation legends at Aardman, our favorite intrepid cheese-loving inventor Wallace has another brilliant idea–this time for serving the evening meal. Wallace & Gromit – Cracking Contraptions: Turbo Diner Renowned Disney animator Glen Keane explores the dynamic intersection of dance and drawing, working in tandem with a live ballerina. (Robert Kondo & Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi, Japan/USA 2016, 14 min) A memory stuck in limbo, little Moom awakens each day to joyfully release his brightly colored compatriots from their earthly attachments. In a whimsical land filled with discarded objects, every item arrives embedded with the memory of its former owner. (Natalie van den Dungen, Australia 2015, 6 min)Ī goose egg has been abducted, and two determined detectives are on the case in this clever animated caper that is, literally, ripped from the newspaper headlines. On her first day at a new school, seven-year-old Annabelle shows up looking a little different from everyone else-and gets an unexpected primer on compassion. Works range from new student films to those by veteran artists such as Nick Park of Aardman Animations, Disney animator Glen Keane, YouTube favorite Simon Tofield (and his fussy fat cat), and Oscar-winning SFIFF alum Brandon Oldenburg.
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René Jodoin, André Leduc & Bernard Longpréįaith, John Hubley ( p.n.In this eclectic international collection of short films for young audiences, an array of colorful characters-of the human, animal and monster varieties-learn how to help one another and work together in fun and sometimes surprising ways. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the SailorĪnd to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Streetįred Quimby, William Hanna & Joseph BarberaĪ Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature 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.Īll bars that are highlighted yellow were winners-with the title and name shown in boldface. The Academy defines short as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits." Fifteen films are shortlisted before nominations are announced. 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. Among international studios, the NFB has the most wins in this category, with 6 Oscars.
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Warner Bros.'s Looney Tunes/ Merrie Melodies series also had a big amount of 16 Oscar nominations and winning 5. 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. 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). (The first non-English-language international short to win was Zagreb Film's Ersatz (The Substitute) in 1961.) Only American films were nominated for the award until the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) won with The Romance of Transportation in Canada in 1952. 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, "n the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded." During the first 5 decades of the award's existence, awards were presented to the producers of the shorts. The present title began with the 46th Awards in 1974. 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.įrom 1932 until 1970, the category was known as Short Subjects, Cartoons and from 1971 to 1973 as Short Subjects, Animated Films.
