This is the list of 45 animated shorts that the Academy is considering in the Best Animated Shorts category (with links to official sites when I could find them). The Animated, Docs, and Shorts Oscar page is going to be updated piecemeal this week as I work on beating all this information into some form of pundited submission.
Until then, the list. Do you ever try to see the nominees in this category?
A SHADOW OF BLUE (Carlos Lascano)
- A Morning Stroll by Grant Orchard (Studio AKA)
- A Shadow of Blue by Carlos Lascano
- Birdboy by Alberto Vasquez (Abrikim Studio)
- Chopin’s Drawings by Dorota Kobiela (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Correspondence by Zach Hyer (Pratt)
- Daisy Cutter by Enrique Garcia and Rubin Salazar (Silverspace)
- Dimanche / Sunday by Patrick Doyon (NFB)
- El Salon Mexico by Paul Glickman and Tamarind King
- Enrique Wrecks the World by David Chai *Annie Nominee Last Year*
- Ente Tod Und Tulipe (Duck Death and the Tulip) by Matthias Bruhn (Richard Lutterbeck – Trickstudio)
- Fat Hamster by Adam Wyrwas (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Grandpa Looked Like William Powell by David Levy
- Hamster Heaven by Paul Bolger (BreakThru Films) Poland
I WAS A CHILD OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS (Ann Marie Fleming adapts Bernice Eisenstein's memoirs)
- I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat by Matt O’Callaghan (Warner Bros... 3D Sylvester vs. Tweety)
- I Was the Child of Holocaust Survivors by Anne Marie Fleming (NFB)
- Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest by Kevin Sean Michaels USA
- Kahanikar by Nandita Jain (National Film and Television School) England
- La Luna by Enrico Casarosa (Pixar) -See Previous Post (INTERVIEW)
- Little Postman by Dorota Kobiela (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Luminaris by Juan Pablo Zaramella (JPZaramella Studios)
- Luna by Donna Brockopp (Rainmaker) Canada *see complete short, 7 minutes*
- Maska by Timothy and Stephen Quay (Sem-ma-for) Poland
- Muybridge’s Strings by Koji Yamamura (1 PREVIOUS OSCAR NOMINATION)
- My Hometown by Jerry Levitan, Written and Narrated by Yoko Ono (Eggplant) *see complete short, 7 minutes*
- Night Island by Salvador Maldonado (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Nullarbor by Alister Lockhart
- Papa’s Boy by Leevi Lemmetty (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Paths of Hate by Damien Nenow (Platige Image) Poland
- Romance by George Schwizgebel (NFB & Studio GDS)
- Specky Four-Eyes by Jean Claude Rozec (Vivement Lundi)
THE EXTERNAL WORLD
- Spirits of the Piano by Magdalena Osinska (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Thank You by Thomas Herpich (Frederator)
- The Ballad of Nessie by Stevie Wermers (Walt Disney Studios)
- The External World by David O’ Reilly
- The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg (Moonbot Studios)
- The Gloaming by Nobrain (Autour De Minuit) France
- The Lost Town of Switez by Kamil Polak (Human Ark) Poland *debut*
- The Magic Piano by Martin Clapp (BreakThru Films) Poland
- The Monster of Nix by Rosto *with voice work by Tom Waits & Terry Gilliam. It's a horror musical!*
- The Renter by Jason Carpenter (CalArts) *debut, Annie Award nominee last year*
- The Smurf’s A Christmas Carol by Troy Quane (Sony Pictures Animation)
- The Tannery by Iain Gardner (Axis Animation)
VICENTA (Spain)
- The Smurf’s A Christmas Carol by Troy Quane (Sony Pictures Animation)
- The Tannery by Iain Gardner (Axis Animation)
- The Vermeers by Tal S. Shamir
- Vicenta by Samuel Orti Marti
- Wild Life by Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby (NFB)