Ten Animated Shorts Make the Oscar Shortlist

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this morning the shortlist of ten animated shorts for the 2010 Best Animated Short category. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch will now vote one more time to narrow it down to five nominees. The final vote, which determines the winner, is open to all Academy members provided that they have watched every nominated short.

We published the list of 33 qualifying shorts a few weeks ago on Cartoon Brew. The ten shorts that were voted to move forward are below. Did your favorites make the cut?

Coyote Falls
Director: Matthew O’Callaghan
United States, 2010, 3 min
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Day & Night
Director: Teddy Newton
United States, 2010, 6 min
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Let’s Pollute
Director: Geefwee Boedoe
United States, 2010, 7 min
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Madagascar, A Journey Diary (Madagascar, carnet de voyage)
Director: Bastien Dubois
France, 2009, 11:30 min
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Sensology
Director: Michel Gagné
United States, 2010, 6 min
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The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger
Director: Bill Plympton
United States, 2010, 6 min
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The Gruffalo
Directors: Jakob Schuh, Max Lang
Great Britain, 2010, 27 min
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The Lost Thing
Directors: Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan
Australia, 2010, 15 min
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The Silence Beneath the Bark (Le Silence Sous L’ecorce)
Director: Joanna Lurie
France, 2009, 11 min
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Urs
Director: Moritz Mayerhofer
Germany, 2009 10 min
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