Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film


The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards, 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, "n the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded."
Only American films were nominated for the award until the National Film Board of Canada 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 and most wins. MGM's Tom and Jerry 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 & Gromit series.
The Academy defines short'' as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits." 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.
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Winners and nominees

All bars that are highlighted yellow were winners—with the title and name shown in boldface.

2000s

Superlatives

For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge:
Most awardsWalt Disney12 awards'
Most nominationsWalt Disney39 nominations'
Most consecutive yearsWalt Disney8 years
Oldest winnerWalt Disney67 years, 130 days
Youngest winnerBob Gardiner24 years, 20 days
Shortest winning filmThe Crunch Bird 2 minutes and 32 seconds
Shortest nominated filmFresh Guacamole 1 minute and 40 seconds
Longest winning filmThe Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse 34 minutes and 8 seconds
Longest nominated filmPear Cider and Cigarettes 34 minutes and 56 seconds

Multiple nominations and awards

The following is a list of animation studios or animators that earned multiple nominations and awards in this category.
StudioNominationsAwards
Disney5115
MGM239
National Film Board of Canada386
Warner Bros.275
Pixar175
United Productions of America143
Aardman93
John Hubley and Faith Hubley73
BBC33
Channel 462
Frédéric Back42
Sony Pictures Animation22
Rembrandt51
Bob Godfrey41
Aleksandr Petrov41
Will Vinton41
Zagreb Film41
Brandon31
Passion Pictures Animation31
Blue Sky31
DePatie-Freleng21
Fred Wolf21
Motionpicker21
Michael Mills21
Dave Mullins21
Pannonia Film Studio21
Stephen Bosustow Productions21
Walter Lantz100
George Pal70
Screen Gems60
National Film & Television School60
Fleischer40
Terrytoons40
Pathe Contemporary30
Magic Light30
Mark Baker30
Melnitsa30
Harman-Ising20
Dago20
Pyramid20
TVC London20
S4C20
Brown Bag20
Halas & Batchelor20
Bill Plympton20
Don Hertzfeldt20
Folimage20
Emanuele Luzzati20
Konstantin Bronzit20
Joanna Quinn20