The preliminary voting period for the 98th Academy Awards is just around the corner (December 8-12, 2025), and voters have over 100 contenders in the Animated Short Film race to consider. Here are the shorts that will be winnowed down into the 15-title Oscar Shortlist, which will be announced December 16.
You can find more information about these titles in our Oscar Watch dossier.
Animated Short Films
- Ahimsa
- All Heart
- Always & Forever
- Autokar
- Balconies
- Black Man, Black Man
- Bound
- Brown Morning
- Budo
- The Burial of Natty Bumppo
- Butterfly
- Butterfly Kiss
- Cafune
- Capybaras
- Cardboard
- Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado
- Criminal
- David
- Dembaya
- Detlev
- Dull Spots of Greenish Colours
- Earth Coal
- The Eating of an Orange
- The Eggregores’ Theory
- Éiru
- The Escort
- Father Figure
- Filante
- The Fling
- Flower_Gan
- Forevergreen
- Fracti
- Free the Chickens
- Gigi
- The Girl Who Cried Pearls
- Glasshouse
- Grit
- Hairy Legs
- Hands
- Helen
- Humantis
- Hunting
- Hurikán
- I Died in Irpin
- Inkwo for When the Starving Return
- It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow
- Jesus 2
- La Mancha Negra
- Larval
- Les Bêtes
- Loop Line
- Long Distance
- Luz Diabla
- Martyr’s Guidebook
- Moral Support
- Mother’s Child
- Murmuration
- My Brother, My Brother
- My Gut Friend
- My Homeland
- A Night at the Rest Area
- The Night Boots
- No Vacancy
- On Weary Wings Go By
- Ordinary Life
- Ovary-Acting
- Overture
- Paradise Man
- Patterns
- Pietra
- Playing God
- Póg Mo Pigeon
- Pow!
- Psychonauts
- The Puppet and the Whale
- The Quinta’s Ghost
- Radix
- Retirement Plan
- Saudade, Perhaps…
- Scars We Love
- Shadows
- Shimmer
- Sisowath Quay
- The Shyness of Trees
- Skroll
- Snow Bear
- Solstice
- The Song of Drifters
- Sparrows
- A Sparrow’s Song
- Speed Reader
- The Story of Sergio
- Surf Soup®️Buttons
- T-Zero
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Chrome Alone 2: Lost in New Jersey
- The Three Sisters
- Tiddler
- Transferable
- Trash
- The 12 Inch Pianist
- Two Black Boys in Paradise
- Two Ships
- Um
- Versa
- A Very Twisted Tale
- Voyage of the Red Rabbit
- Walk in the Light
- A Walk into the Afterlife
- Wednesdays with Gramps
- Whale 52
- The Wide Eyed Girl and the Long Legged Boy
- Winter in March
- The Wolf
