There are three pathways to qualifying for the Academy Award Best Animated Short category:

The film must have won a qualifying award at a competitive film festival. The list of film festivals and the specific awards at those festivals that can qualify a film can be found in this pdf.

The picture must have been publicly exhibited for paid admission in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County or the City of New York for a run of at least seven consecutive days with at least one screening a day prior to public exhibition or distribution by any non-theatrical means. The picture also must appear in the theater listings along with the appropriate dates and screening time(s).

in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County or the City of New York for a run of at least seven consecutive days with at least one screening a day prior to public exhibition or distribution by any non-theatrical means. The picture also must appear in the theater listings along with the appropriate dates and screening time(s). The film must have won a Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal award in the Academy’s 2019 Student Academy Awards competition in the Animation, Narrative, Alternative or International categories.

Even though all of the films in our list are technically eligible, it is still up to the filmmaker to take the extra step of entering the film into the Oscar competition. And even if the film qualifies by winning an award or screening theatrically, it has to follow all of the Academy’s rules and regulations before officially qualifying for the race. For these reasons, no one can be absolutely certain whether all of these films will be on the final list of qualified films, however at this moment in time, it is the closest thing available to a complete list.

First-round voting by members of the Academy’s Short Films and Feature Animation Branch will take place in New York on October 26 and 27, and in Los Angeles on November 9 and 10. Online voting for the shortlist will take place between December 6-10. The 10-film shortlist is scheduled to be announced on December 16.

The nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards will be announced on Monday, January 13, 2020, and the Oscars will be presented on Sunday, February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California.

The films are presented below in alphabetical order:

Acid Rain

Tomek Popakul (Poland)

Qualified at Animafest Zagreb

Augur

David Doutel, Vasco Sá (Portugal/France)

Qualified at Busan

Blind Mice

Nicholas D’Agostino (U.S.)

Qualified at Raindance

Cazatalentos

José Herrera (Spain)

Qualified through Goya Awards

Cityunited

Don Jayamanne (U.K.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Coffee Break

María Cristina Pérez, Mauricio Cuervo Rincón (Colombia)

Qualified at Bogoshorts

Coaster

Amos Sussigan, Dan Lund (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Cops & Robbers (Räuber & Gendarm)

Florian Maubach (Germany)

Qualified through German Short Film Award

Curse of the Monkeybird

Pete Browngardt (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Cycles

Jeff Gipson (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Dak’Toka Taíno

Alba García (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Dani

Lizzy Hogenson (U.S.)

Qualified at Palm Springs

Daughter

Daria Kashcheeva (Czech Republic)

Qualified at Student Academy Awards

Don’t Feed These Animals

Guilherme Afonso and Miguel Madaíl de Freitas (Portugal)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Dont Know What

Thomas Renoldner (Austria)

Qualified at Ottawa

Downtown

Kendra Vander Vliet (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county Drop

Trent Correy (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Egg

Martina Scarpelli (France/Denmark)

Qualified at AFI Fest, Athens, Leipzig

Elephant in the Room

Brian Scott (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Exchange Student

Natalie Nourigat (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county Falafel Cart

Abdullah Al-Wazzan (Kuwait)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Fetch

Mitch Counsell (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Five Minutes to Sea

Natalia Mirzoyan (Russia)

Qualified at Animayo, Encounters, Lebu

Flowing Through Wonder

Joanna Lurie (France)

Qualified at Flickerfest

(Fool Time) Job

Gilles Cuvelier (France)

Qualified at Uppsala

Follow the White Rabbid

Meat Dept (France)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county Game Changer

Aviv Mano (U.S.)

Qualified at Student Academy Awards

Girl in the Hallway

Valerie Barnhart (Canada)

Qualified at Edmonton

Gon, The Little Fox

Takeshi Yashiro (Japan)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Grand Bassin

Héloïse Courtois, Chloé Plat, Victori Jalabert, Adèle Raigneau (France)

Qualified at Warsaw

Grendel

Kalee McCollaum (U.S.)

Qualified at Student Academy Awards

Guaxuma

Nara Normande (Brazil/France)

Qualified at Cinequest, Guadalajara, SXSW

Gun Shop

Patrick Smith (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Hair-Jitsu

Brian Estrada (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county Hair Love

Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing Jr., Bruce W. Smith (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Hands

John Canemaker (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

He Can’t Live Without Cosmos

Konstantin Bronzit (Russia)

Qualified at Tirana, In the Palace

Henrietta Bulkowski

Rachel Johnson (U.S.)

Qualified at Atlanta, Santa Barbara

Hors Piste

Léo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, Oscar Malet (France)

Qualified at New York Int’ Children’s Film Festival

How I Left Your Father

Explosm/Connor Murphy (France)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county Ian, A Moving Story

Abel Goldfarb (Argentina)

Qualified at Cleveland

I’m Going Out for Cigarettes (Je sors acheter des cigarettes)

Osman Cerfon (France)

Qualified at Animator Int’ Festival

Jing Hua

Jerry Huynh (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county Just a Thought

Brian Menz (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county Kitbull

Rosana Sullivan (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Las Del Diente

Ana Pérez López (Spain)

Qualified at Florida

Le Mans 1955

Quentin Baillieux (France)

Qualified at St. Louis

Lightning in a Bottle

John Aquino (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Lucky Toupee

Nikki Mull (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county Maestro

Illogic (France)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Marooned

Andrew Erekson (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Memorable

Bruno Collet (France)

Qualified at Annecy

Mind My Mind

Floor Adams (Netherlands/Belgium)

Qualified at Rhode Island

Mr. Mare

Luca Tóth (Hungary/France)

Qualified at Odense

My Generation

Ludovic Houplain (France)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

My Little Goat

Tomoki Misato (Japan)

Qualified at Short Shorts

My Moon

Eusong Lee (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

My Mother’s Eyes

Jenny Wright (U.K.)

Qualified at Tribeca

Ostrich Politic

Mohamad Houhou (France)

Qualified at LA Shorts Fest

Plankton

Gustaf Lindström (U.K.)

Qualified at Interfilm

Portrait of Suzanne

Izabela Plucińska (Poland/Germany/France)

Qualified at Krakow

Primos

Federico Gutiérrez Obeso (Mexico)

Qualified at Chilemonos

Puddles

Zach Parrish (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Purl

Kristen Lester (U.S.)

Qualified at Siggraph

Raymonde or the Vertical Escape

Sarah van der Boom (France)

Qualified at Leeds

Reneepoptosis

Renee Zhan (U.S./Japan)

Qualified at Sundance

Reruns

Rosto (France/Netherlands/Belgium)

Qualified at Anima

Riviera

Jonas Schloesing (France)

Qualified at Guanajuato, Regard — Saguenay Int’ Film Festival

Roughhouse

Jonathan Hodgson (U.K./France)

Qualified through BAFTA Awards

Selfies

Claudius Gentinetta (Switzerland)

Qualified at San Francisco

Shalva (=Tranquility)

Danna Windsor (U.S.)

Qualified at Slamdance

Sister

Siqi Song (U.S./China)

Qualified at Aspen Shortsfest, Austin, Foyle, Hollyshorts

Sitara: Let Girls Dream

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (Pakistan)

Qualified through public exhibition in New York City

Smash and Grab

Brian Larsen (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Sohrab and Rustum

Lee Whitmore (Australia)

Qualified at Sydney

Songs to Sing in the Dark

Riannon Delanoy (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county Substance

Jamaal Bradley (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Streets of Fury

Aidan McAteer (Ireland)

Qualified at Galway

Tasks of the Day

Petya Zlateva (Bulgaria)

Qualified at In the Palace

The Bird and the Whale

Carol Freeman (Ireland)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

The Flood Is Coming

Gabriel Böhmer (Switzerland/U.K.)

Qualified at Winterthur

The Kite

Martin Smatana (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Poland)

The Opposites Game

Lisa LaBracio, Anna Samo (U.S.)

Qualified at Raindance

The Physics of Sorrow

Theodore Ushev (Canada)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

The Procession (Le cortège)

Pascal Blanchet, Rodolphe Saint-Gelais (Canada)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

The Race

Terry Moews (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county The Wheel Turns

Sang Joon Kim (U.S./Japan/South Korea)

Qualified at Sitges

Two

Emre Okten (U.S.)

Qualified at Student Academy Awards

Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days

Regina Pessoa (Canada/France/Portugal)

Qualified at Anima Mundi, Annecy

Walking Meat

Shinya Sugai (Japan)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Under the Rib Cage

Bruno Tondeur (France/Belgium)

Qualified at Krakow

Zenith

Jennifer Stratton (U.S.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county

Zog

Max Lang and Daniel Snaddon (U.K.)

Qualified through public exhibition in L.A. county



Amid Amidi contributed to this story.