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Oscar for Animated Short Film
The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present.
This category was known as "Short Subjects, Cartoons" from...
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in...
Fred Quimby
Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby (July 31, 1886 – September 16, 1965) was an American cartoon producer, best known as a producer of Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards. He was the producer in charge of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Eddie Selzer
Edward "Eddie" Selzer (January 12, 1893 - February 22, 1970) was a producer of Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1944 to 1960.
After the studio was purchased from Leon Schlesinger in 1944, Selzer was assigned studio head by Jack Warner. Unlike his...
Stephen Bosustow
Stephen Reginald Bosustow (b.November 6, 1911, Victoria, British Columbia – d.July 4, 1981) was a Canadian - born American film producer from 1943 until his retirement in 1979. He was one of the founders of UPA United Productions of America and...
John W. Burton
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John Hubley
John Hubley (May 21, 1914 – February 21, 1977) was an American animator and animation director known for both his formal experimentation and for his emotional realism which stemmed from his tendency to cast his own children as voice actors in his...
William L Snyder
William Lawrence Snyder (February 14, 1918–June 3, 1998) was an American film producer. He won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1960 for the animation Munro, a story about a four-year-old boy drafted into the army. William Snyder created...
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Dušan Vukotić
Dušan Vukotić (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Вукотић, 1927, Bileća, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1998, Krapinske Toplice, Croatia) was a Croatian and Montenegrin author and director of animated films.
He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of...
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Faith Hubleys
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Ernest Pintoff
Ernest Pintoff (December 15, 1931, Watertown, Connecticut – January 12, 2002, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an Oscar-winning American film and television director, screenwriter and film producer.
He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for The...
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David H. DePatie
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Friz Frelengs
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Chuck Jones
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros....
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Les Goldmans
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Faith Hubleys
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Ward Kimball
Ward Walrath Kimball (March 4, 1914 – July 8, 2002) was an animator for the Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as Disney's Nine Old Men.
While Kimball was a brilliant draftsman, he preferred to work on comical...
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Nick Bosustow
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Ted Petok
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Frank Mouris
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Will Vinton
Will Vinton (born 1947) is an American director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, near Portland. He has won an Oscar for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio.
During the 1960s...
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Bob Gardiner
James Robbins (Bob) Gardiner (1951-04-21 — 2005-04-21) was an animator who helped pioneer what would become known as Claymation. He was born in Torrance, California and died in Grass Valley, California. He received an Oscar in 1974 for his short...
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Suzanne Baker
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Co Hoedeman
Jacobus Willem (Co) Hoedeman (born August 1, 1940 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch-Canadian filmmaker known for his mastery of stop motion animation and technical innovation in films that reveal his close observation of human and social interaction....
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John Weldon
John Weldon (May 11, 1945, Belleville, Ontario), is a Canadian actor, composer, animator and movie director, known for his National Film Board of Canada animated shorts. He lives in Montreal.
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Eunice Macaulay
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Derek Lamb
Derek Lamb (1936- 2005) was an Academy Award-winning animation filmmaker and producer. While serving as Executive Producer of the National Film Board of Canada's English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-winner Special...
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Ferenc Rófusz
Ferenc Rofusz is an Academy-Award winning Hungarian animator.
Rofusz was born in 1946 in Budapest. His interest in animation and film making started relatively early. During his studies he took special drawing and animating courses. He started to...
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Frédéric Back
Frédéric Back, OC, CQ (born April 8, 1924) is an award-winning Canadian animator.
Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, he emigrated to Canada in 1948.
In 1952, he joined the graphics department of Radio-Canada and has remained there since.
He created a...
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Zbigniew Rybczyński (born January 27, 1949) is an Academy Award winning Polish filmmaker who has won numerous prestigious industry awards both in the United States and internationally. He was also a teacher of cinematography, and digital...
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Fred Alan Wolf
Fred Alan Wolf (born December 3, 1934) is a theoretical physicist and writer on the subjects of quantum physics, consciousness, and their relationship. He is a science popularizer on the Discovery Channel, and has authored a number of books. His...
Jimmy Picker
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Jon Minnis
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Cilia Van Dijk
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Linda Van Tulden
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Willem Thijssen
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John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American animator, director and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney...
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William Reeves Easton
B. Reeves Eason (born William Reeves Eason, 2 October 1886, New York City - 9 June 1956, California) was an American silent film director, actor and screenwriter of the early period.
Eason directed 150 films and starred in almost 100 films over his...
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Wolfgang Lauenstein
Wolfgang Lauenstein (born March 20, 1962 in Hildesheim, Germany) is a German film producer and animator.
Lauenstein entered the School of Fine Arts in Hamburg, Germany in 1985. While enrolled at the school Lauenstein, together with his twin brother...
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Christoph Lauenstein
Christoph Lauenstein (born March 20, 1962 in Hildesheim, Germany) is a German Producer and animator.
Lauenstein entered the School of Fine Arts in Kassel, Germany in 1985. While enrolled at the school Lauenstein, together with his twin brother...
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Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE (born 6 December 1958) is a four-time Academy Award-winning English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit. He has been nominated for an Oscar five times and won four...
Daniel Greaves
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Joan C. Gratz
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Alison Snowden
Alison Snowden (born in Nottingham, 1958) is a voice actress, producer, and screenwriter best known for Bob and Margaret.
She attended the National Film and Television School where she collaborated with future husband David Fine. Her short "Second...
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David Fine
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Tyron Montgomery
Tyron Montgomery (born April 29, 1967) is an Oscar winning film director and media creative. Originally raised in Ireland, near Limerick, Montgomery today is a German citizen, living and working in Munich.
After studying physics in Wuppertal, Tyron...
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Thomas Stellmach
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Jan Pinkava
Dr. Jan Jaroslav Pinkava (born 21 June 1963, in Prague) is the director and writer of the Pixar Oscar-winning 1997 short film Geri's Game and the originator and co-director of Pixar's Oscar-winning 2007 film Ratatouille.
He is the third-born of four...
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Chris Wedge
John Christian "Chris" Wedge (born March 20, 1957 in Binghamton, New York) is an American film director, best known for the films Ice Age and Robots.
Chris Wedge attended Fayetteville-Manlius High School, graduating in 1975. He received his BFA in...
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Alexandr Petrov
Aleksandr Konstantinovich Petrov (also Alexander or Alexandre) (Russian: Александр Константинович Петров) (July 17, 1957) is a Russian animator and animation director.
Petrov was born in the village of Prechistoye (Yaroslavl Oblast) and lives in...
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Michaël Dudok De Wit
Michael Dudok de Wit (born in 1953, Abcoude, the Netherlands) is an animator, director and illustrator. In 1978, he graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with his first film The Interview. After working for a year in Barcelona, he settled in...
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Ralph Eggleston
Ralph Eggleston (born October 18, Baton Rouge, Lousiana) is an American animator, art director, storyboard artist, Production designer, writer, director and voice actor. He was hired in 1992 during the development of Toy Story. His work on Toy Story...
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Eric Armstrong
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Adam Elliot
Adam Elliot (born 2 January 1972) is an Australian animator, best known for his Academy-Award winning claymation Harvie Krumpet.
Adam grew up on a prawn farm in the Australian Outback with his father, a retired acrobatic clown. When the farm went...
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Chris Landreth
Chris Landreth (born 1961) is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film, Ryan. He has made many CGI animated films since the mid-90s, including The End, Bingo, The Listener, Caustic Sky: A Portrait of Regional...
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John Canemaker
John Canemaker (born 1943) is an Academy Award-winning independent animator, animation historian, author, teacher and lecturer. In 1980, he began teaching and developing the animation program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts', Kanbar...
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Peggy Stern
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Torill Kove
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Hugh Welchman
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Suzie Templeton
Suzie Templeton (born 1967 in Hampshire, England) is an Academy Award-winning director, animator and writer of stop motion animation films. She is best known for her 2006 animated adaptation of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
Suzie began her career...
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