What is the best Oscar-winning animated short film?

Ten-minute films that beat out everything else in the category for a statuette. Some are studio showpieces, some were made by two people and a pencil.

1

Dear Basketball

Kobe Bryant's hand-drawn 2017 retirement letter, animated by Glen Keane and scored by John Williams.

2

The Wrong Trousers

Nick Park's 1993 Wallace and Gromit caper with a penguin thief and robotic trousers.

3

A Close Shave

The 1995 Wallace and Gromit short about sheep rustling, wool and a dog named Preston.

4

Geri's Game

Pixar's 1997 short about an old man playing chess against himself in an empty park.

5

Paperman

Disney's 2012 black-and-white short mixing hand-drawn and CG animation in a paper-plane romance.

6

Bao

Domee Shi's 2018 Pixar short about a Chinese-Canadian mother and a dumpling that comes to life.

7

Hair Love

Matthew A. Cherry's 2019 short about a Black father learning to style his daughter's hair.

8

For the Birds

Pixar's 2000 short about a flock of snooty small birds and one oversized newcomer on a wire.

9

Tin Toy

Pixar's 1988 breakthrough, the first CG film to win the Oscar, told from a wind-up toy's view.

10

The Old Man and the Sea

Aleksandr Petrov's 1999 paint-on-glass adaptation of the Hemingway novella, made for IMAX.

11

The Man Who Planted Trees

Frederic Back's 1987 half-hour pencil-crayon epic about one shepherd reforesting a valley.

12

Father and Daughter

Michael Dudok de Wit's 2000 wordless short about a girl returning to a shoreline for a lifetime.

13

Logorama

The 2009 French short staging a Los Angeles disaster movie entirely out of corporate logos.

14

Feast

Disney's 2014 short following a romance through the eyes and dinner bowl of a Boston terrier.

15

Bear Story

Chile's 2015 winner, a mechanical diorama that retells a bear's separation under dictatorship.

16

Piper

Pixar's 2016 photoreal short about a sandpiper chick learning to face the surf.

17

Mr. Hublot

Luxembourg's 2013 steampunk short about an obsessive recluse who adopts a robot dog.

18

If Anything Happens I Love You

The 2020 Netflix short using shadow figures to trace two parents grieving a school shooting.

19

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

The 2022 hand-drawn adaptation of Charlie Mackesy's illustrated book about kindness.

20

Balance

The Lauenstein brothers' 1989 stop-motion parable of five men sharing a tilting platform.