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What is the best Oscar-winning animated short film?

by YPB Team

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 — ranked #11
    Dear Basketball
    Kobe Bryant's hand-drawn 2017 retirement letter, animated by Glen Keane and scored by John Williams.
  2. The Wrong Trousers — ranked #22
    The Wrong Trousers
    Nick Park's 1993 Wallace and Gromit caper with a penguin thief and robotic trousers.
  3. A Close Shave — ranked #33
    A Close Shave
    The 1995 Wallace and Gromit short about sheep rustling, wool and a dog named Preston.
  4. Geri's Game — ranked #44
    Geri's Game
    Pixar's 1997 short about an old man playing chess against himself in an empty park.
  5. Paperman — ranked #55
    Paperman
    Disney's 2012 black-and-white short mixing hand-drawn and CG animation in a paper-plane romance.
  6. Bao — ranked #66
    Bao
    Domee Shi's 2018 Pixar short about a Chinese-Canadian mother and a dumpling that comes to life.
  7. Hair Love — ranked #77
    Hair Love
    Matthew A. Cherry's 2019 short about a Black father learning to style his daughter's hair.
  8. For the Birds — ranked #88
    For the Birds
    Pixar's 2000 short about a flock of snooty small birds and one oversized newcomer on a wire.
  9. Tin Toy — ranked #99
    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 — ranked #1010
    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 — ranked #1111
    The Man Who Planted Trees
    Frederic Back's 1987 half-hour pencil-crayon epic about one shepherd reforesting a valley.
  12. Father and Daughter — ranked #1212
    Father and Daughter
    Michael Dudok de Wit's 2000 wordless short about a girl returning to a shoreline for a lifetime.
  13. Logorama — ranked #1313
    Logorama
    The 2009 French short staging a Los Angeles disaster movie entirely out of corporate logos.
  14. Feast — ranked #1414
    Feast
    Disney's 2014 short following a romance through the eyes and dinner bowl of a Boston terrier.
  15. Bear Story — ranked #1515
    Bear Story
    Chile's 2015 winner, a mechanical diorama that retells a bear's separation under dictatorship.
  16. Piper — ranked #1616
    Piper
    Pixar's 2016 photoreal short about a sandpiper chick learning to face the surf.
  17. Mr. Hublot — ranked #1717
    Mr. Hublot
    Luxembourg's 2013 steampunk short about an obsessive recluse who adopts a robot dog.
  18. If Anything Happens I Love You — ranked #1818
    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 — ranked #1919
    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
    The 2022 hand-drawn adaptation of Charlie Mackesy's illustrated book about kindness.
  20. Balance — ranked #2020
    Balance
    The Lauenstein brothers' 1989 stop-motion parable of five men sharing a tilting platform.

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Comments

Glen Keane drew it in pencil, John Williams scored it, and in 2018 it won a category otherwise full of Pixar and Aardman: https://youpick.best/articles/kobe-bryant-ranked-many-ways

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