63 Titles Qualify for Animated Short Oscar Race

Under Academy rules, all films will be reviewed with 10 advancing to the short list at the end of November.

The list of official qualified short films for the 90^th annual Academy Awards, which will be presented March 4, has been published by Cartoon Brew.

The list features 63 animated shorts in contention for the Oscar. That’s down from the 70 that qualified last year.

The qualified films are:

The Absence of Eddy Table – Rune Spaans (Norway)
Among the Black Waves – Anna Budanova (Russia)
Ben and Big – Rowan Grey Sutherland (USA)
Bullet Time – Frodo Kuipers (Netherlands)
Call of Cuteness – Brenda Lien (Germany)
Coin Operated – Nicholas Arioli (USA)
Confino – Nico Bonomolo (Italy)
Cop Dog – Bill Plympton (USA)
Cradle – Devon Manney (USA)
A Dad – Robert Cambrinus (Austria)
Darrel – Marc Briones, Alan Carabantes (Spain)
Dear Basketball – Glen Keane (USA)
E-delivery – Young Gul Cho (USA)
Ein Aus Weg – Simon Steinhorst, Hannah Lotte Stragholz (Germany)
Eternal Hunting Grounds – Elin Grimstad (Norway/Estonia)
Everything – David OReilly (USA)
Flutter – Vladimir Todorov (Bulgaria/USA)
Follow Your Heart – Rob O’Neill (USA)
Fox and The Whale – Robin Joseph (Canada)
Garden Party – Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Theophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon, Lucas Na (France)
Goose in High Heels – John Dilworth (USA)
Green Light – Seongmin Kim (South Korea)
Hedgehog’s Home – Eva Cvijanović (Canada/Croatia)
Here’s the Plan – Fernanda Frick (Chile)
Hold Me (Ca Caw Ca Caw) – Renee Zhan (USA)
Hugo Bumfeldt – Éva Katinka Bognár (Hungary)
I Am Little Red – Mary Mazzio, Gabriel Osorio, Alec Sokolow (USA)
I Like Girls – Diane Obomsawin (Canada)
In A Heartbeat – Beth David, Esteban Bravo (USA)
In a Nutshell – Fabio Friedli (Switzerland)
An Island – Rory Byrne (Ireland)
La Casa de Colores (The House of Colors) – Nicolás P. Villarreal (Argentina)
Life Smartphone – Chenglin Xie (China)
Lost Property Office – Daniel Agdag (Australia)
Lou – Dave Mullins (USA)
Love – Réka Bucsi (Hungary/France)
A Love Story – Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara (UK)
Min Börda (The Burden) – Niki Lindroth Von Bahr (Sweden)
Mr. Madila – Rory Waudby-Tolley (UK)
My Heart Attack by Sheldon Cohen (Canada)
Negative Space – Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter (France)
Nighthawk – Špela Čadež (Slovenia/Croatia)
Nothing Happens – Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot (Denmark/France)
Once A Hero – Xia Li (USA/China)
Panic Attack! – Eileen O’Meara (USA)
Puppy – Genndy Tartakovsky (USA)
Pussy – Renata Gasiorowska (Poland)
Radio City Maniapolis – Georgia Patterson (USA)
Revolting Rhymes – Jan Lachauer, Jakob Schuh (Germany/UK)
Song of a Toad – Kariem Saleh (Germany)
Spring Jam – Ned Wenlock (New Zealand)
Strange Case – Zbigniew Czapla (Poland)
The Talk: True Stories About the Birds and the Bees – Alain Delannoy (Canada)
The Tesla World Light – Matthew Rankin (Canada)
Threads – Torill Kove (Canada/Norway)
Ugly – Nikita Diakur (Germany)
Valley of White Birds – Cloud Yang (China)
Wednesday with Goddard – Nicolas Ménard (UK)
Weeds by Kevin Hudson USA)
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Joanna Harrison, Robin Shaw (UK)
Whatever the Weather – Remo Scherrer (Switzerland)
Wicked Girl – Ayce Kartal (France)
World of Tomorrow, Episode 2: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts – Don Hertzfeldt (USA)

Under the rules for the 90^th Academy Awards, volunteer active and life members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch will review all 63 shorts. The 10 most highly rated will advance to a short list, which will be announced in late November.

The shortlist films will be reviewed by a larger group of branch members, which will vote with the top-five films earning a nomination. Those film will be announced Jan. 23.

Final voting is open to the entire Academy, with the winner announced at the 90^th annual Oscars on March 4.

Source: Cartoon Brew