57 short animated films for an Oscar
Michael Sporn first made this list public. It is a list of every short film that has been qualified for an Academy Award.
Nominees include the Annecy-Awarded Tram by the Czech animator Michaela Pavlatova, the Hiroshima-awarded Russian film I Saw Mice Burying a Cat (Dmitry Geller), and the UK Encounters Festival winner Oh, Willy (Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels).
The Oscar-awarded US animator Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected) also qualifies with his new film It's A Beautiful Day. The UK stop-motion film of a couple upside-down, Head Over Heels (Tim Reckart) figures on the list, as well as Joseph Pierce's decadence story, The Pub (UK) [info & trailer].
The Portuguese Regina Pessoa qualifies with her new short, Kali, the little vampire [info] and the Canadian Franck Dion features with his Edmond Was A Donkey.
The British Animation awarded The Eagleman Stag (Mikey Please) will compete for an Academy Award, as well as the French art story Dripped (Leo Verrier) [info-trailer] and the US independent film, Wolf Dog Tales [info & trailer].
The Slovakian stop-motion film The Last Bus, which won at the 2012 Stuttgart International Animation Festival is among the 57 shorts, and the Estonian Body Memory (Ülo Pikkov) is another European entry.
There is also a Simpsons short film: Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare".
Academy Award nominations will be announced on January, 10.
Read the full list of qualifying films:
1. Dell' Ammazzare Il Maiale - 6mins
2. Here and the Great Elsewhere 14mins
3. Amazonia 5mins
4. Being Bradford Dillman 10 mins
5. Belly 7 mins
6. Body Memory (Keha Ma'I LI) 10 mins
7. Cadaver 7 mins
8. Combustible 13 mins
9. Dripped 8 mins
10. The Eagleman Stag 9 mins
11. The Fall of the House of Usher 17 mins
12. Fear of Flying 9 mins
13. Fresh Guacamole 2 mins
14. The Game 5 mins
15. The Gruffalo's Child 26 mins
16. Head Over Heels 10 mins
17. House of Monsters 7 mins
18. I Hate You Red Light 8 mins
19. I Saw Mice Burying a Cat 6 mins
20. Junkyard 18 mins
21. Kubla Khan 4 mins
22. La Detente 9 mins
23. Lost and Found 4 mins
24. The Making of Longbird 15 mins
25. The Missing Key 30 mins
26. Oh Willy... 17 mins
27. Pepe & Lucas 7 mins
28. The Pub 8 mins
29. Reflexion 4 mins
30. Slow Derek 8 mins
31. The Story of Pines 16 mins
32. Tram 7 mins
33. The Wind Girl (La Nina de Viento) 14 mins
34. Wolf Dog Tales 7 mins
35. Zeinek Gehiago Iraun 12 mins
36. 7596 Frames 5 mins
37. The Hybrid U-nion 5 mins
38. The Maker 6 mins
39. Paperman 7 mins
40. Adam and Dog 16 mins
41. Chase 13 mins
42. Kara 7 mins
43. Pasteurized 8 mins
44. Sammy 10 mins
45. Shift 5 mins
46. The Tale of a String 8 mins
47. Wiggle Room 8 mins
48. It's Such a Beautiful Day 23 mins
49. Overcast 9 mins
50. Traces 7 mins
51. Bydlo 9 mins
52. Kali the Little Vampire 9 mins
53. The Last Bus (Posledny Autobus) 15 mins
55. Edmond Was a Donkey 15 mins
56. Daffy's Rhapsody 4 mins
57. Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" 5 mins
