This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for Best Animated Short Film, inaugurated as a category in 1931-1932.

And you can watch 98% of them online! [Only four titles are uned for -- three of them are by George Pal.]

As of the 91st Academy Awards, an animated film is defined as "a motion picture in which movement and characters’ performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, and usually falls into one of the two general fields of animation: narrative or abstract." The rule on definition further goes: "Some of the techniques of animating films include but are not limited to hand-drawn animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, pixilation, cutout animation, pinscreen, camera multiple imagery, kaleidoscopic effects created frame-by-frame, and drawing on the film frame itself. Motion capture and real-time puppetry are not by themselves animation techniques."

The Academy also defines an animated short film as having a running time of 40 minutes or less.

In addition, a "narrative animated film must have a significant number of the major characters animated. If the picture is created in a cinematic style that could be mistaken for live action, the filmmaker(s) must also submit information ing how and why the picture is substantially a work of animation rather than live action. Documentary short subjects that are animated may be submitted in either the Animated Short Film category or the Documentary Short Subject category, but not both."

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