Background 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.
Missing gaps on that site are 1949, 1950, 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985.
Note: ± means the film was nominated for the award.
Notable films
1937 +Film (studio)ReferencesPopeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (Fleischer Studios)Zula Hulu (Fleischer Studios)The Wayward Pups (MGM)September in the Rain (Warner Bros)The Dog and the Bone (aka Puddy Picks a Bone!) (Terrytoons)Hawaiian Holiday (Disney)Pluto's Quin-puplets (Disney)Donald's Ostrich (Disney)
1940 +Film (studio)ReferenceSnubbed By a Snob (Fleischer Studios)You Ought to Be in Pictures (Warner Bros)Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (Fleischer Studios)Knock Knock (Walter Lantz/Universal)Billy Mouse’s Akwakade (Terrytoons)Mad Hatter (Screen Gems)Western Daze (George Pal)Wimmin Is a Myskery (Fleischer Studios)The Early Worm Gets the Bird (Warner Bros)Cross Country Detors (Warner Bros)Recruiting Daze (Walter Lantz/Universal)
1943 +Film (studio)ReferenceWhat's Cookin' Doc? (Warner Bros)
1946 +Film (studio)ReferenceRhapsody Rabbit (Warner Bros) cartoonresearch.com
1947 +Film (studio)ReferenceBuccaneer Bunny (Warner Bros) cartoonresearch.comHop, Look and Listen (Warner Bros)Scaredy Cat (Warner Bros)
1948 +TitleStudioDirectorProducerResultBase BrawlFamous StudiosSeymour KneitelSam Buchwald Hep Cat Symphony The Little OrphanMGM CartoonsWilliam Hanna and Joseph BarberaFred Quimby Mickey and the SealWalt Disney ProductionsCharles NicholsWalt Disney Mouse WreckersWarner Bros. CartoonsCharles M. JonesEdward Selzer Robin HoodlumUnited Productions of AmericaJohn HubleyStephen Bosustow Taming the CatTerrytoonsConnie RasinskiPaul Terry Tea for Two HundredWalt Disney ProductionsJack HannahWalt Disney The 3 Minnies Impossible Pictures/RepublicThe 3 Minnies: Sota, Tonka and Ha-Ha|Cartoon BrewLeonard LevinsonLeonard Levinson Wags to RichesMGM CartoonsTex AveryFred Quimby Wild and Woody! Walter Lantz ProductionsDick LundyWalter Lantz
1950s YearFilm (studio)Reference1951 (23rd)Alpine for You (Famous Studios) By Leaps and Hounds (Famous Studios) Magic Canvas (Halas & Batchelor) One Cab's Family (MGM) Gift Wrapped (Warner Bros) Little Beau Pepé (Warner Bros) Ballot Box Bunny (Warner Bros) Slingshot 6 7/8 (Walter Lantz/Universal International) Sing Again of Michigan (Famous Studios) To Boo or Not to Boo (Famous Studios) Sloppy Jalopy (UPA)1952Around Is Around (NFB) The Case of the Cockeyed Canary (Famous Studios) Duck Amuck (Warner Bros) Gag and Baggage (Famous Studios) Gerald McBoing-Boing's Symphony (UPA) Ghost of the Town (Famous Studios) John Gilpin (Halas & Batchelor) Kermesse Fantastique (Josef Mizik) A Mouse Divided (Warner Bros) Mice Capades (Famous Studios) Popeye's Pappy (Famous Studios) The Little House (Disney) Termites from Mars (Walter Lantz/Universal International) Trick or Treat (Disney)1953Herman the Catoonist (Famous Studios) Hypnotic Hick (Walter Lantz/Universal International) Starting from Hatch (Famous Studios) Just Ducky (MGM) Toreadorable (Famous Studios) The Figurehead (Louis de Rochemont Associates) The Flying Turtle (Walter Lantz/Universal International) Boo Moon (Famous Studios) Magoo Goes Skiing (UPA) No Place Like Rome (Famous Studios)1954Casper Genie (Famous Studios) Grand Canyonscope (Disney) Tara the Stonecutter (Mayfair Pictures) Fright to the Finish (Famous Studios) Fido Beta Kappa (Famous Studios) Pizzicato Pussycat (Warner Bros) Rail Rodents (Famous Studios) Bewitched Bunny (Warner Bros)1955A Job for a Gob (Famous Studios) Spooking for the Brogue (Famous Studios) Dizzy Dishes (Famous Studios) Magoo Makes News (UPA) Monsieur Herman (Famous Studios) "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1955". cartoonresearch.com.1956A Cowboy Needs a Horse (Disney) A Short Vision (George K. Arthur) Down Beat Bear (MGM) Dutch Treat (Famous Studios) Hooked Bear (Disney) Hill-billing and Cooing (Famous Studios) Mousetro Herman (Famous Studios) Three Little Bops (WB) The Talking Dog (Walter Lantz/Universal International) How to Have An Accident in the Home (Disney) Pedro and Lorenzo (Famous Studios) Hill Billing and Cooing (Famous Studios) Calling All Cuckoos (Walter Lantz/Universal International)1957Tom's Photo Finish (MGM) What's Opera, Doc? (WB) Box Car Bandit (Walter Lantz/Universal International) It's a Living (Terrytoons) Magoo's Private War (UPA) The Bone Ranger (Terrytoons) The Bongo Punch (Walter Lantz/Universal International) The Juggler of Our Lady (Terrytoons) The Juggler of Our Lady (Cavalcade Pictures) The Adventures of * (John Hubley and Faith Hubley) Flebus (Terrytoons) Springtime for Clobber (Terrytoons)1958The Little Island (Richard Williams) Magoo's Three-Point Landing (UPA) Robin Hoodwinked (MGM) Jittery Jester (Walter Lantz/Universal International) Little Televillain (Walter Lantz/Universal International) The Mouse that Jack Built (WB) Finnegan's Flea (Famous Studios) Surprise Boogie (Albert Pierru) Sailing and Village Band (UPA)1959Down to Mirth (Famous Studios) Felineous Assault (Famous Studios) Hashimoto-san (Terrytoons) Little Bo Bopped (Columbia) Magoo Meets Boing Boing (The Noise-Making Boy) (UPA) Picnics Are Fun and Dino's Serenade (UPA) TV Fuddlehead (Famous Studios) The Minute and a ½ Man (Terrytoons)
1960s YearFilm (studio)Reference1960 (33rd)Cow on the Moon (Zagreb Film) I Was a Teenage Magoo (UPA) Piccolo (Zagreb Film) The Black Cat (Robert Braverman) The Interview (Ernest Pintoff) Samson Scrap (Rembrandt Films) Snoopy Loopy (Columbia) Southern Fried Hospitality (Walter Lantz/Universal International) Tin Pan Alley Cat (Terrytoons) Top Cat (Famous Studios)1961Abner the Baseball (Famous Studios) Catch Meow (Columbia) Drum Roll (Terrytoons) Hawaiian Guy (UPA) Riding Hood Magoo (UPA) Sleeping Beauty (Jay Ward) Snidely's Monster (Jay Ward) The Lion and Albert (Robert Fenwick) The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit (MGM) Tree Spree (Terrytoons)1962The Astronauts (Argos Films) Banty Raids (WB) Barbara (Interlude Films) Europa (Pelican Films) Everyday Chronicle (Zagreb Film) Home Life (Terrytoons) The Old Man and the Flower (Ernest Pintoff) Petroushka (Fine Arts Films) 1963 How to Win on the Thruway (Gene Deitch) Operation Moonshot (Phil Davis and Dusan Vukotic) The Great Rights (William Hurtz) The Hangman (Paul Julian and Les Goldman) The Ringading Kid (Famous Studios) Spooki-Yaki (Terrytoons) Mouse Blanche (Famous Studios)1964A Finnish Fable (Carmen D’Vino) Breaking the Habit (John Korty) Dead and Sunrise (Eyvind Earle) Fix That Clock (Famous Studios) Gadmouse the Apprentice Good Fairy (Terrytoons) Little Boy Bad (Columbia) Rooftop Razzle Dazzle (Universal-Lantz) The Hat (Hubley) Three Little Woodpeckers (Universal-Lantz) 1965A (Jan Lenica) Alf, Bill and Fred (Bob Godfrey) Carnival - The World of Sine (Jules Engel) Claude (Dan McLaughlin) Dress Reversal (Terrytoons) Drive on, Nudnik (Gene Deitch) The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (DePatie-Freleng) The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra (Halas and Batchelor) How to Live with a Neurotic Dog (Gene Deitch) Howard (Stars and Stripes Forever Productions) The Itch (Famous Studios) A Leak in the Dike (Famous Studios) The Nose (Alexandre Alexieff & Claire Parker) The Wild Chase (WB) Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (Disney) The Top (Murakami-Wolf) Enter Hamlet (Fred Mogubgub) Woof-Woof (Zagreb Studio)1966Funny is Funny (Universal) Guided Mouse-ille (MGM) The Hand (Jiri Trnka) The Wall (Zagreb) Birds, Bees and Storks (Halas & Batchelor) Boniface's Holiday (Soyuzmultfilm)KANIKULX BONIFATSIA (1965)|BFI1967Calypso Singer (Paul Glickman) The Bear That Wasn't (MGM) Breath (Murakami-Wolf) Escalation (Ward Kimball) Norman Normal (WB) Numbers (Stefan Schabenbeck) Psychedelic Pink (DePatie-Freleng) Scrooge McDuck and Money (Disney) The Shooting of Dan McGrew (Universal) The Plumber (Paramount) My Daddy the Astronaut (Paramount) Why Are You Smiling, Mona Lisa? (Jiri Brdecka)1968An American Time Capsule (Charles Braverman) Good Neighbor Nudnik (Rembrandt-Paramount) Hurts and Flowers (DePatie-Freleng) K-9000: A Space Oddity (Robert Mitchell & Robert Swarthe) The Fly (Zagreb) The Power of Destiny (Jiří Brdečka) The Wacky World of Numburrs (Bosustow Productions) Bunny and Claude (WB) Koncertissimo (Pannonia Film Studio) Pollution (Astrafilms)1969Anansi the Spider (Gerald McDermott) Permutations (John Whitney) Injun Trouble (WB) My Son the King (Bob Kurtz) Noises in the Night (Bosustow) Opera Cordis (Zagreb) Scratch a Tiger (DePatie-Freleng) Shamrock and Roll (WB) The Caterpillar and the Wild Animals (Joseph Brenner Assiociates) The Great Walled City of Xan (University of Southern California) The Good Friend (Murakami-Wolf) The Giants (Gene Deitch) The Kidnapping Of The Sun And The Moon (Hungarofilm)
1970s YearFilm (studio)Reference1970 (43rd)The Black and White and Trouble in The Works (Gerald Potterton) Eggs (John Hubley and Faith Hubley) Flower Lovers (Borivoj Dovniković-Bordo, Zagreb Film) Hop and Chop (DePatie-Freleng) Lance (David Oliver Pfeil) Masque of the Red Death (Pavao Štalter and Branco Ranitovic, Zagreb Film) Matrix (John Whitney) Peace (John G. Marshall) Please Do not Touch (John G. Marshall) Susan (Richard J. Finley & Duane Shelby Ament)1971 (44th)Synchromy (NFB) Dig (Hubley) Donovan's Old Fashioned Picture Book (Tony Benedict) Freedom River (Stephen Bosustow Productions) Keep Cool (Barrie Nelson) The Pink Flea (DePatie-Freleng) The Tool Box (Gene Warren) Venus and the Cat (Zlatko Bourek, Zagreb Film)1972 (45th)Free Good Grief (Mike Jittlov) The Giving Tree (Charlie O. Haywood) The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow (Stephen Bosustow Productions) The Mad Baker (Ted Petock) Super Joe (Dan McRae)1973 (46th)Brainwash (Ronald Bijlsma) Foot Fetish (Randal Kleiser) Love Me, Love Me, Love Me (Richard Williams) Balablok (NFB) B.C.: The First Thanksgiving (Abe Levitow) Cockaboody (Hubley) Sandman (Eli Noyes) Potpourri (Les Kaluza) The Last Cartoon Man (Jeffery Hale and Derek Lamb) The Maggot (George Dunning) A Future for Every Child (Colin Giles) A Very Merry Cricket (Chuck Jones)1974 (47th)Butterfly Ball (Halas and Batchelor) Diary (Zagreb Film) The Death Hour (Fred Crippen) Deep Blue World (Ken Rudolph) Evolu (John Leach) Fantaro (Jan Lenica) H-a (Julius Kohanyi) The Happy Prince (Murray Shostack & Michael Mills) I Am a Rainbow (Dorothy Wayne, Richard Loring and Harry Sherda) Melon Madness (Jon Adrian Wokuluk) O Lala (Les Kaluza) Opera (Bruno Bozzetto and Guido Manuli) Popcorn (Ross Sutherland and Gil Rosoff) Roll 'em Lola (Fred Burns) Room and Board (Randy Cartwright) A Better Train of Thought (Pannonia) A Snort History (Stan Phillips) Teenage Idol (Peggy Okeya) The Touch (Ernest Pintoff) Twins (Barrie Nelson) Uvalde (Gordon Bellamy) Yetta the Yenta (Ted Petok) Zipstones (Jan Rofekamp)1975 (48th) Arabesque (John Whitney) The Beast of Monsieur Racine (Weston Woods) Coney (Frank Mouris) Choice Stakes (Stan Phillips and Pat Oliphant) Boobs a Lot (Leonard Ellis) High in the Saddle (Steve Sharon) Oni (Kihachiro Kawamoto) Optimist and Pessimist (Zlatko Grgić) Perspectrum (NFB) Quasi at the Quackadero (Sally Cruikshank) Red Ball Express (Steve Segal) Gubecziana (Dušan Vukotić) Sooper Goop (Chuck Swenson-Churchill Films) L'Empreinte (Jaques Cardon) UNICEF is Sharing (Paul Fierlinger) Whazzat? An Arabic Folk Tale (Art Pierson) Who Are We? (NFB) W.O.W. (Faith Hubley) Yin Hsien (Michael Whitney)1977 (50th)All, All and All Animato (Mike Jittov) Conquering the Paper Mountain A Cosmic Christmas (Nelvana) Crude (Paul Boyington) David (Paul Driessen) Dead End (Janet Shapiro) Fight (Marcell Jankovics) Froggie went a Courtin’ (Frank Gladstone) Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back (Larry Moyer) Joshua and the Shadow (John Lange) Last of the Red-Hot Dragons (Shamus Culhane)