Best Animated Short Film Winners and Nominees Ranked (1969-2022)
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- DirectorWard KimballStarsRuth BuzziRichard BakalyanJohn EmersonPart cartoon and part documentary, this film offers a humorous look at birds and the ways people perceive them.
- DirectorJohn HubleyWhen the Gods of Rain, Wind and Fire team up to ruin a simple farmer's tranquil life, the war is on between nature and machines.
- DirectorRyan LarkinA cinematic portrait of people walking in their individual ways.
- DirectorLee MishkinStarsOrson WellesDiana HaleThe world is divided into factions, on opposite sides of issues; each side is, of course, right. And so the gap between the people grows, until someone challenges the absolutist view of what's "right."
- DirectorDale CaseRobert MitchellUncle Sam has been living peacefully in the American southwest, running a gas station. But when terrorists kidnap the Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam teams up with an eagle to go rescue her.
- DirectorCameron GuessStarsScott BeachA shepherd, who wants to be left alone to pursue his career, finally faces the reality that there are no jobs for shepherds. He sends his sheep to the country and takes a correspondence course to train for a new career.
- DirectorTed PetokStarsLen MaxwellA woman goes into a pet store seeking a gift for her husband. She decides to get him a bird with a most unusual talent, but her gift brings about an unforeseen result.
- DirectorMichael MillsA humourous illustration of the natural process of evolution.
- DirectorPeter SanderStarsPaul HechtCharles AznavourThe King SistersA giant builds a wall to keep children out of his garden, but then winter sets in permanently.
- DirectorRichard WilliamsStarsAlastair SimMichael RedgraveMelvyn HayesAn old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when spirits visit him on Christmas Eve.
- DirectorBob GodfreyStarsBob GodfreyL.J. DickensAn animated short from British comedian Bob Godfrey.
- DirectorNedeljko DragicAldo RaparelliThe quick tempo of life in polluted cities makes patients out of people. Neurosis is an everyday occurrence.
- DirectorCaroline MourisFrank MourisStarsFrank MourisOne soundtrack features the animator narrating an autobiography; the other features him reading a list of words beginning with the letter 'F'. The images on screen tie these two soundtracks together.
- DirectorSam WeissStarsRoberta FlackThe folk legend of John Henry, and his contest with a steam engine to cut a railroad tunnel through a mountain, is told in song by Roberta Flack.
- DirectorGiulio GianiniEmanuele LuzzatiPulcinella dreams himself into a wild nightmare of a dream that leads us through an abstract world.
- DirectorBob GardinerWill VintonStarsTodd OlesonHolly JohnsonA man visiting a museum sees the works of art come to life.
- DirectorYvon MalletteStarsE.B. WhiteA family of seven lives on a New England island with nobody else. One winter, they got stranded because the bay froze over. This didn't much matter to them, but someone on the mainland remembered them and launched an aerial rescue mission; an unfounded story that one boy had appendicitis results in a larger rescue mission, with the situation rapidly escalating into a major catastrophe all because of the rescue mission.
- DirectorPeter FoldesCruel, and utterly effective, Peter Foldes' experimentation with computer animation employs a bold speechless narrative to draw attention to the grave effects of consumerism. Who needs ethics when everything is within arm's reach?
- DirectorFaith HubleyJohn HubleyStarsDizzy GillespieHans KollerMaureen StapletonMother Earth and Father Time discuss and observe humanity's questionable and destructive progress throughout history.
- DirectorJohn LounsberyWolfgang ReithermanStarsSebastian CabotJunius MatthewsJohn FiedlerRabbit is tired of Tigger always bouncing him, so he gets Pooh and Piglet together to come up with an idea to get the bounce out of Tigger. Rabbit suggests they take him into the middle of nowhere and leave him overnight. The idea backfires and Rabbit, Piglet and Pooh find themselves lost, but Pooh's tummy guides them home. Then, Tigger and Roo go out for a bounce and get caught in a tree, which Tigger is too afraid to get out of, and Rabbit makes Tigger promise that if they help get Tigger down, that Tigger can never bounce again. So Tigger is rescued and feels sad that he can no longer bounce, but everyone, including Rabbit, agrees they liked the old bouncy Tigger better.
- DirectorBob GodfreyStarsRichard BriersHarry FowlerBarbara MooreAn animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century - including the Thames Tunnel, the Great Western Railway, and the Great Eastern steamship (for 40 years the world's largest steamship). Various styles of animation are used to depict events in his colorful life.
- DirectorRobert SwartheAn Oscar Nominated short film about a red pair of legs.
- DirectorAndré LeducBernard LongpréStarsPaul CormierMonsieur Pointu would like to play his fiddle. But the fiddle has other ideas.
- DirectorMarcell JankovicsThe film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sysiphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sysiphus, the stone, and the mountainside.
- DirectorBruce PettyStarsAlexander ArchdaleA short course of boring history about how not to die of boredom.