Oct 11, 2017

2018 Academy Awards Animated Short Films: List of Nominees (Exclusive)

Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will learn next week which animated short films have been nominated for the Academy Awards in the animated short film category.

However, Cartoon Brew tracks the category throughout the year, and below is an exclusive list of more than 60 films known to have been nominated in the animated short film category. These films will be viewed and voted on by members of the Short Films and Animated Feature Films categories between mid-October and Thanksgiving, at which point the Academy will publish a short list of 10 films. The ten films will then be voted on again to determine the final five Academy Award nominees.

There are three ways to be nominated in the Animated Short Film category:

With some caveats: Even if all of the films on this list are technically eligible, it is unclear whether the filmmakers have actually taken the extra step of submitting their films for Academy Award competition. It is unclear whether or not the filmmakers actually took the extra step of submitting their films to the Academy Awards competition. It is also possible that other films may have qualified without our knowledge because of the public release option. The full list of qualified films will not be known until the Academy announces the qualified films to the membership.

Despite these unknowns, this list is the most accurate public resource available at this time and provides valuable information on what films will be competing for awards this year.Cartoon Brew has traditionally not given this category as much attention as other Academy Awards categories, so it is Cartoon Brew believes it is important to disseminate as much information as possible about this category, as it traditionally does not receive as much attention as other Oscar categories.

Animated shorts certainly deserve a more careful look. They are at the vanguard of innovation in our art form. If you are looking for fresh concepts, storytelling approaches, styles, and techniques in animation, this year's outstanding lineup of projects offers it all.

We'll have more on the nominees when the Academy's feature list is released to the membership, but for now, we present this preliminary list of nominees (in alphabetical order) so that animation fans can become familiar with the likely contenders.

A Dad - Robert Cambrinus (Austria)

A Love Story - Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara (UK)

Among the Black Waves - Anna Budanova ( Russia)

An Island - Rory Byrne (Ireland)

Call of Cuteness - Brenda Lien (Germany)

Serria - Sofia Carrillo (Mexico)

Coin Operated - Nicholas Arioli (USA)

Confino - Nico Bonomoro (Italy)

Cop Dog - Bill Plimpton (USA)

Cradle - Devon Manny (USA)

Darrell Mark Briones, Alan Caravantes (Spain)

Dear Basketball - Glen Keane (USA)

E-delivery - Jon Gur Cho (USA)

Ein Aus Weg - Simon Steinhorst, Hanna Lotte Stragolz (Germany)

Eternal Hunting Grounds - Elin Grimstad (Norway/Estonia)

Everything - David OReilly (USA)

Follow Your Heart - Rob O'Neill (USA)

Fox and The Whale - Robin Joseph (Canada)

Garden Party - Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Theophile Dufrene, Gabriel Grapelon, Lucas Na (France)

Goose in High Heels - John Dilworth (USA)

Green Light - Sungmin Kim (Korea)

Gros Chagrin - Celine Deveau (France)

Heads Together - Job, Joris & Marieke (Netherlands)

Hedgehog's Home - Eva Kvijanovi. (Canada/Croatia)

Here's the Plan - Fernanda Flick (Chile)

Hold Me (Ca Caw Ca Caw) - Renee Zann (USA)

Hot Dog Hands - Matt Reynolds (USA)

Hugo Bumfeldt - Éva Katinka Bognár (Hungary)

I Like Girls - Diane Obomsawin (Canada)

Impossible Figures and Other Stories II - Marta Pajek ( (Poland)

In A Heartbeat - Beth David, Esteban Bravo (USA)

In a Nutshell - Fabio Friedli (Switzerland)

Life Smartphone - Chenglin Xie (China)

Lost Property Office - Daniel Agdag (Australia)

Lou - Dave Mullins (USA)

Love - Réka Bucsi (Hungary/France)

Mr. Lost - Réka Bucsi (Hungary) Madila - Rory Waudby-Tolley (UK)

My Heart Attack - Sheldon Cohen (Canada)

Negative Space - Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter (France)

Nighthawk - Špela . adež (Slovenia/Croatia)

Nothing Happens - Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot (Denmark/France)

Olaf's Frozen Adventure - Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers ( (USA)

Once A Hero - Xia Li (USA/China)

Puppy - Genndy Tartakovsky (USA)

Pussy - Renata Gasiorowska (Poland)

Railment - Shunsaku Hayashi (Japan) Shunsaku Hayashi (Japan)

Revolting Rhymes - Jan Lachauer, Jakob Schuh (Germany/UK)

Song of a Toad - Kareem Saleh (Germany)

Spring Jam - Ned Wenlock (New Zealand)

Strange Case - Zbigniew Czapla (Poland)

Taler de Corazones (Heart Workshop) - Leon Fernandez.

The Burden - Niki Lindroth Von Bahr (Sweden)

The Absence of Eddy Table - Rune Spaans (Norway)

The Bald Future - Paul Cabon (France)

The History of Magic: Ensueno - José Luis González (USA)

The Itching - Dianne Bellino (USA)

The Talk: The True Story of Birds and Bees - Alain Delannoy ( (Canada)

"Tesla World Light" - Matthew Rankin (Canada)

"The Thread" - Trill Cove (Canada/Norway)

"Ugly" - Nikita Diakur (Germany)

Wednesday with Goddard (UK)

Waverly the Weather (Switzerland)

Wicked Girl (France)

World of Tomorrow (France)

World of Tomorrow, Episode 2 - Don Hertzfeldt (USA)

Syrophon - Jennifer Levonian (USA)