Short lists announced for short film Oscars - animated and live action

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) today announced their short list of contenders in the two Short Film categories. Ten animated shorts in each category were selected from the thirty-three qualifying animated entries and the seventy-six qualifying live action entries. The films were chosen by the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee, and will be further whittled down to the final three to five nominations per category on January 25th when all the nominees are announced.

Included in the animated short film list are studio films such as Pixar's Day & Night and Warner Brothers' latest Roadrunner cartoon Coyote Falls. Also shortlisted in the Animated Feature category for Idiots and Angels, director Bill Plympton made the short film shortlist for The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger.

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards presentation takes place on February 27th, 2011.

---
Short list for Best Animated Short:

The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger
Bill Plympton, director (Bill Plympton Studio)

Coyote Falls
Matthew O’Callaghan, director and Sam Register, executive producer (Warner Bros. Animation Inc.)

Day & Night
Teddy Newton, director (Pixar Animation Studios)

The Gruffalo
Jakob Schuh and Max Lang, directors (Magic Light Pictures)

Let’s Pollute
Geefwee Boedoe, story-design-animation (Geefwee Boedoe)

The Lost Thing
Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann, directors (Passion Pictures Australia)

Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary)
Bastien Dubois, director (Sacrebleu Productions)

Sensology
Michel Gagne, director-producer (GAGNE International LLC)

The Silence Beneath the Bark
Joanna Lurie, director (Lardux Films)

Urs
Moritz Mayerhofer, director (Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg)

---
Short list for Best Live Action Short

Ana’s Playground
Eric D. Howell, director (StoryForge, LLC)

The Confession
Tanel Toom, director (National Film and Television School)

The Crush
Michael Creagh, director (Purdy Pictures)

God of Love
Luke Matheny, director (Luke Matheny)

Na Wewe
Ivan Goldschmidt, director-producer (CUT!)

Seeds of the Fall
Patrik Eklund, director, and Mathias Fjellstrom, producer (Direktorn & Fabrikorn)

Shoe
Nick Kelly, director, and Seamus Byrne, producer (Zanita Films)

The Six Dollar Fifty Man
Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland, directors (Sticky Pictures Ltd.)

Sma Barn, Stora Ord (Little Children, Big Words)
Lisa James Larsson, director and Andreas Emanuelsson, producer (Bob Film Sweden AB)

Wish 143
Ian Barnes, director, and Samantha Waite, producer (Swing and Shift Films/Union Pictures)