113 Animated Shorts Qualify For The 2026 Oscars — Full List And Voter Guidelines Inside

This year, 113 animated shorts have qualified for the upcoming Academy Awards, and Academy voters now have access to the full lineup on the Academy Screening Room digital platform. The 113 qualifiers represent roughly a 20% increase from recent years. For comparison, 95 films qualified last year.

The qualifying shorts are divided into two batches, and voters are sent one of the two lists. In the first round of voting, members must watch at least 33% of each assigned film for it to count as “viewed.” Voters then rank their top 15 films in order of preference. Once voting closes and rankings are tallied, the top 15 shorts will move on to the shortlist.

Below, we’ve published the full list of this year’s qualified films, including their directors when that information was available to us. The Academy’s list we worked from only included film titles. If we got any filmmakers wrong, please let us know in the comments.

The 2026 Oscars voting calendar is as follows:

• Preliminary voting begins: Monday, December 8, 2025, at 9 a.m. PT

• Preliminary voting ends: Friday, December 12, 2025, at 5 p.m. PT

• Oscars Shortlists announced: Tuesday, December 16, 2025

• Nominations voting begins: Monday, January 12, 2026, at 9 a.m. PT

• Nominations voting ends: Friday, January 16, 2026, at 5 p.m. PT

• Oscar nominations announced: Thursday, January 22, 2026

2026 Oscar-Qualified Animated Short Films

1. The 12 Inch Pianist, Lucas Ansel
2. Ahimsa, Craig Lew
3. All Heart, Michael Govier, Will McCormack
4. Always & Forever
5. Autokar, Sylwia Szkiladz
6. Balconies
7. Black Man, Black Man, Frank Abney
8. Bound, Masha Ellsworth
9. Brown Morning, Carlo Vogele
10. Budo, Amanda Aagard, Alexander Toma
11. The Burial of Natty Bumppo, Fred Burns
12. Butterfly, Florence Miailhe
13. Butterfly Kiss, Zohar Dvir
14. Cafunè, Lorena Ares, Carlos F. de Vigo
15. Capybaras, Alfredo Soderguit
16. Cardboard, J.P. Vine
17. Como Si La Tierra Se Las Hubiera Tragado, Natalia León
18. Criminal
19. David
20. Dembaya, Borja Espana Guillot
21. Detlev, Ferdinand Ehrhardt
22. Dull Spots of Greenish Colours, Sasha Svirsky
23. Earth Coal, Bastien Dupriez
24. The Eggregores’ Theory, Andrea Gatopoulos
25. Éiru, Giovanna Ferrari
26. The Eating of an Orange, May Kindred-Boothby
27. The Escort, Rick Williamson
28. Father Figure
29. Filante, Marion Jamault
30. The Fling
31. flower_gan, Mati Granica
32. Forevergreen, Nathan Engelhardt, Jeremy Spears
33. Fracti, Lavinia Petrache
34. Free the Chickens, Matúš Vizár
35. Gigi, Cynthia Calvi
36. The Girl Who Cried Pearls, Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
37. Glasshouse, Boris Labbé
38. Grit, Abdulazeez Alrefai
39. Hairy Legs, Andrea Dorfman
40. Hands
41. Helen, Helio Mira
42. Humantis, Paris Baillie
43. Hunting, Lea Favre
44. Hurikán, Jan Saska
45. I Died in Irpin, Anastasiia Falileieva
46. Inkwo for When the Starving Return, Amanda Strong
47. It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow, Maria Trigo Teixeira
48. Jesus 2, Jesse Moynihan
49. La Mancha Negra, Yareni Velázquez Mendoza
50. Larval, Alice Bloomfield
51. Les Bêtes, Michael Granberry
52. Long Distance, Iulia Voitova
53. Loop Line, Renuka Shahane
54. Luz Diabla, Gervasio Canda, Paula Boffo, Patricio Plaza
55. Martyr’s Guidebook, Maks Rzontkowski
56. Moral Support, Vuk Jevremović
57. Mother’s Child, Naomi Noir
58. Murmuration, Janneke Swinkels, Tim Frijsinger
59. My Brother, My Brother, Saad Dnewar, Abdelrahman Dnewar
60. My Gut Friend, Becho Lo Bianco, Mariano Bergara
61. My Homeland, Tabarak Allah Abbas
62. A Night at the Rest Area, Saki Muramoto
63. The Night Boots, Pierre-Luc Granjon
64. No Vacancy, Miguel Rodrick
65. On Weary Wings Go By, Anu-Laura Tuttelberg
66. Ordinary Life, Yoriko Mizushiri
67. Overture, Jakub Hronský
68. Ovary-Acting, Ida Melum
69. Paradise Man, Jordan Michael Blake
70. Patterns, Alex Glawion
71. Pietra, Cynthia Levitan
72. Playing God, Matteo Burani
73. Póg Mo Pigeon, Clíodhna Lyons
74. Pow!, Joey Clift
75. Psychonauts, Niko Radas
76. The Puppet and the Whale, Roberto Catani
77. The Quinta’s Ghost, James A. Castillo
78. Radix, Anne Breymann
79. Retirement Plan, John Kelly
80. Saudade, Perhaps…, José-Manuel Xavier
81. Scars We Love, Raphaël Jouzeau
82. Shadows, Rand Beiruty
83. Shimmer, Andrés Palma
84. The Shyness of Trees, Sofiia Chuikovska, Loïck Du Plessis D’Argentré, Lina Han, Simin He, Jiaxin Huang, Maud Le Bras, Bingqing Shu
85. Sisowath Quay, Stéphanie Lansaque, François Leroy
86. Skroll, Marten Visser
87. Snow Bear, Aaron Blaise
88. Solstice, Luke Angus
89. Sparrows, Rémi Durin
90. Speed Reader, Jennifer Levonian
91. The Song of Drifters, Xindi Zhang
92. A Sparrow’s Song, Tobias Eckerlin
93. The Story of Sergio, Rosalba Vitellaro
94. Surf Soup®️ Buttons, Donna Kay Lau
95. T-Zero, Vicente Nirō
96. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Chrome Alone 2: Lost in New Jersey, Kent Seki
97. Tiddler, Alex Bain, Andy Martin
98. Transferable, Jacob Gardner, David Hubert
99. Trash, Gregory Bouzid, Maxime Crançon, Robin Delaporte, Matteo Durand, Romain Fleischer, Alexis Le Ral, Margaux Lutz, Fanny Vecchie
100. The Three Sisters, Kognov Timur
101. Two Black Boys in Paradise, Baz Sells
102. Two Ships, McKinley Benson
103. Um
104. Versa, Malcon Pierce
105. Voyage of the Red Rabbit, Sam Gualtieri
106. Walk in the Light, Princella Smith
107. A Walk Into the Afterlife, Jiyun Jeong
108. Wednesdays With Gramps, Chris And Justin Copeland
109. Whale 52, Daniel Neiden
110. The Wide Eyed Girl and the Long Legged Boy, Maria Hespanhol
111. Winter in March, Natalia Mirzoyan
112. The Wolf, Theodore Ushev
113. A Very Twisted Tale, Catherine Buffat, Jean-Luc Gréco