Submissions for Best Animated Short Academy Award

Animation historian Jerry Beck had posted on Cartoon Research lists of animated shorts from various studios considered for nomination of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, beginning with 1948 and ending for the time being with 1986.^[1][2]

According to Jerry, each film submitted to the Academy fall into one or more of these categories: “Craft”, “Heart” or “Humor”.^[3]

Missing gaps are 1949, 1950, 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985.^[4][5][2]

Note: ± means the film was nominated for the award.

Notable films[]

1948[]

1950s[]

• Ballot Box Bunny (Warner Bros)^[6]
• One Cab's Family (MGM)^[6]
• Gift Wrapped (Warner Bros)^[6]
• Magic Canvas (Halas & Batchelor)^[6]
• Duck Amuck (Warner Bros)^[7]
• A Mouse Divided (Warner Bros)^[7]
• The Little House (Disney)^[7]
• Trick or Treat (Disney)^[7]
• Boo Moon (Famous Studios)^[8]
• Grand Canyonscope (Disney)^[9]
• Fright to the Finish (Famous Studios)^[9]
• Pizzicato Pussycat (Warner Bros)^[9]
• Bewitched Bunny (Warner Bros)^[9]
• A Cowboy Needs a Horse (Disney)^[10]
• Down Beat Bear (MGM)^[10]
• Pedro and Lorenzo (Famous Studios)^[11]
• Hooked Bear (Disney)^[10]
• Three Little Bops (WB)^[10]
• Hill Billing and Cooing (Famous Studios)^[11]
• How to Have An Accident at Home (Disney)^[10]
• A Short Vision (Peter Foldes)^[10]
• What's Opera, Doc? (WB)^[12]
• The Adventures of * (John Hubley and Faith Hubley)^[12]
• Flebus (Terrytoons)^[12]
• The Little Island (Richard Williams)^[13]
• Robin Hoodwinked (MGM)^[13]
• The Mouse that Jack Built (WB)^[13]
• Finnegan's Flea (Famous Studios)^[13]
• TV Fuddlehead (Famous Studios)^[14]
• The Violinist (Ernest Pintoff) ^[14] ±

1960s[]

• Cow on the Moon (Zagreb Film) ^[15]
• The Interview (Ernest Pintoff)^[16]
• Piccolo (Zagreb) ^[15]
• A Place in the Sun (Frantisek Vystrical) ^[15] ±
• Abner the Baseball (Famous)^[17]
• The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit (MGM)^[17]
• Banty Raids (WB)^[18]
• The Old Man and the Flower (Ernest Pintoff)^[18]
• Petroushka (John David Wilson)^[18]
• Icarus Montgolfier Wright (Jules Engel-Format Films) ^[19] ±
• Automania 2000 (Halas and Batchelor) ^[20] ±
• The Hangman (Paul Julian and Les Goldman) ^[20]
• The Game (Zagreb) ^[20]
• Pianissimo (Carmen D'Avino) ^[20] ±
• The Hat (Hubley)^[21]
• A (Jan Lenica)^[22]
• Alf, Bill and Fred (Bob Godfrey)^[22]
• Clay, or the Origin of Species (Eli Noyes) ^[23] ±
• The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (Halas & Batchelor)^[24]
• The Nose (Alexandre Alexieff & Claire Parker) ^[22]
• The Thieving Magpie (Giulio Gianini-Emanuele Luzzati) ^[23] ±
• The Top (Murakami-Wolf)^[23]
• Enter Hamlet (Fred Mogubgub) ^[24]
• Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (Disney)^[22]
• The Hand (Jiri Trnka)^[25]
• The Wall (Zagreb Film)^[25]
• Boniface's Holiday (Soyuzmultfilm)^[25]
• Calypso Singer (Paul Glickman) ^[26]
• The Bear That Wasn't (MGM) ^[26]
• Breath (Murakami-Wolf) ^[26]
• Escalation (Ward Kimball) ^[26]
• Norman Normal (WB) ^[26]
• The Little Blue Apron (Hermina Tyrlova) ^[27]
• Scrooge McDuck and Money (Disney) ^[26]
• Numbers (Stefan Schabenbeck)^[27]
• Hypothese Beta (Film Orzeaux-Jean-Charles Meunier) ^[27] ±
• My Daddy the Astronaut (Paramount) ^[26]
• American Time Capsule (Charles Braverman) ^[28]
• K-9000: A Space Oddity (Robert Mitchell & Robert Swarthe) ^[28]
• The Fly (Zagreb) ^[28]
• The Magic Pear Tree (Murakami-Wolf) ^[29] ±
• Bunny and Claude (WB)^[28]
• Koncertissimo (Pannonia Film Studio) ^[29]
• Pollution (Astrafilms)^[30][28]
• Permutations (John Whitney) ^[31]
• Injun Trouble (WB) ^[31]
• Shamrock and Roll (WB)^[31]

1970s[]

• Eggs (Hubley) ^[32]
• The Shepherd (Cameron Guess) ^[33] ±
• Matrix (John Whitney) ^[32]
• Synchromy (NFB) ^[34]
• Dig (Hubley) ^[34]
• Good Grief (Mike Jittlov) ^[35]
• Karma Sutra Strkies Again (Godfrey) ^[35] ±
• The Giving Tree (Charlie O. Haywood) ^[35]
• Foot Fetish (Randal Kleiser) ^[36]
• The Legend of John Henry (Sam Wiess-Bosustow Productions) ^[36] ±
• Pulcinella (Gianini/Luzzati) ^[36] ±
• Love Me, Love Me, Love Me (Richard Williams) ^[36]
• Balablok (NFB) ^[36]
• Cockaboody (Hubley) ^[36]
• Sandman (Eli Noyes) ^[36]
• The Last Cartoon Man (Jeffery Hale and Derek Lamb) ^[36]
• A Very Merry Cricket (Chuck Jones) ^[36]
• The Maggot (George Dunning) ^[36]
• Butterfly Ball (Halas and Batchelor)^[37]
• Diary (Zagreb Film)^[37]
• Opera (Bruno Bozzetto and Guido Manuli) ^[37]
• Room and Board (Randy Cartwright) ^[37]
• A Better Train of Thought (Pannonia)^[37]
• Voyage to Night (Hubley) ^[37] ±
• Arabesque (John Whitney) ^[38]
• The Beast of Monsieur Racine (Weston Woods) ^[38]
• Coney (Frank Mouris) ^[38]
• Oni (Kihachiro Kawamoto) ^[38]
• Kick Me (Robert Swarthe) ^[38]±
• Perspectrum (NFB) ^[38]
• Quasi at the Quackadero (Sally Cruikshank) ^[38]
• Red Ball Express (Steve Segal) ^[38]
• Sooper Goop (Chuck Swenson-Churchill Films) ^[38]
• Who Are We? (NFB) ^[38]
• W.O.W. (Faith Hubley) ^[38]
• Animato (Mike Jittov) ^[4]
• A Cosmic Christmas (Nelvana) ^[4]
• David (Paul Driessen) ^[4]
• A Doonesbury Special (Hubley) ^[4] ±
• Fight (Marcell Jankovics) ^[4]
• Rapid Eye Movements (Mary Lambert & Jeff Carpenter) ^[4]
• Mindscape (NFB) ^[4]
• The Fisherman and His Wife (Sam Weiss-Bosustow Productions) ^[4]
• Jimmy The C (Jimmy Picker) ^[4] ±
• Oh My Darling (Nico Crama-Børge Ring) ^[39] ±
• Rip Van Winkle (Will Vinton) ^[39] ±
• A Routine Day (Al Guest & Jean Mathieson) ^[39]
• Afterlife (NFB) ^[39]
• Love (Jiří Brdečka) ^[39]
• Make Me Psychic (Sally Cruikshank)^[39]
• The Oriental Nightfish (Ian Eames) ^[39]
• Pencil Booklings (Kathy Rose) ^[39]
• Satiemania (Zagreb Film) ^[39]
• The Small One (Disney) ^[39]
• Why Me? (NFB) ^[39]
• Furies (Sarah Petty) ^[39]
• Fantabiblical (Guido Manulli) ^[40]
• Impasse (Frank Mouris) ^[39]
• Rainbow Land (Paul Fierlinger) ^[39]
• Confessions of a Stardreamer (John Canemaker) ^[41]
• Dream Doll (Godfrey/Zagreb/Halas and Batchelor) ^[41] ±
• It's So Nice to Have A Wolf Around the House (Fierlinger) ^[41] ±
• Asparagus (Suzan Pitt)^[41]
• Smile for Auntie (Weston Woods) ^[41]
• Stalk of the Celery Monster (Tim Burton) ^[41]
• Lady and the Lamp (John Lasseter) ^[41]
• Log Driver's Waltz (NFB) ^[41]
• The Wizard of Speed and Time (Mike Jittlov) ^[41]
• Animalympics-Winter Games (Steven Lisberger) ^[41]
• Banjo the Woodpile Cat (Don Bluth) ^[41]
• Harpya (Raoul Servais) ^[41]
• The Little Prince (Vinton) ^[41]
• The Magic Flute (Luzzati/Gianini) ^[41]
• Mr. Pascal (Alison de Vere) ^[41]

1980s[]

• All Nothing (Frederick Back)^[42] ±
• History of the World in Three Minutes Flat (Michael Mills) ^[42] ±
• Dinosaur (Vinton) ^[42]
• Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 241/2th Century (WB) ^[42]
• Fisheye (Zagreb Film) ^[43]
• Getting Started (NFB) ^[42]
• Opens Wednesday (Barrie Nelson) ^[42]
• Sing Beast Sing (Marv Newland) ^[42]
• The Sweater (NFB) ^[42]
• Machine Story (Doug Miller) ^[5]
• The Rubber Stamp Film (Joanna Priestley) ^[5]
• Sound of Sunshine, Sound of Rain (Caroline M. Heywood) ^[5] ±
• Bottom's Dream (Canemaker) ^[5]
• You Gotta Serve Somebody (John Wilson)^[5]
• Morris's Disappearing Bag (Michael Sporn) ^[5]
• Narcissis (NFB) ^[5]
• Your Feet's Too Big (Nancy Beiman) ^[5]
• Jumping (Osamu Tezuka) ^[44]
• Paradise (NFB)^[44] ±
• Life Is Flashing Before My Eyes (Vince Collins) ^[44]
• Anijam (Newland) ^[44]
• Boomtown (Bill Plympton) ^[44]
• High Fidelity (Robert Abel) ^[44]
• My Little Pony (Tom Griffen and Joe Bacall) ^[44]
• Real Inside (NFB) ^[44]
• The Romance of Betty Boop (Bill Melendez) ^[44]
• Snookles (Juilet Stroud) ^[2]
• Tables of Content (Wendy Tilby) ^[2]
• Broken Down Film (Tezuka) ^[2]
• Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety (NFB) ^[2]
• Get A Job (NFB) ^[2]
• I Was A Thanksgiving Turkey (John Schnall) ^[2]
• John Lennon Sketchbook (Canemaker) ^[2]
• The Frog, The Dog and The Devil (Bob Stenhouse) ^[2] ±

2009-present[]

See also[]

• Submissions for Best Animated Feature Academy Award

References[]

External links[]

• Best Animated Short Blog
• Cartoon Research
• Oscar shortlist
• Submissions on Animation Magazine
• Qualifications and Rules on Animation World Network