以下是本届奥斯卡最佳动画短片的候选影片名单（大部分有官方网站的链接），总共有45部，他们中将先选出10部，然后再争夺5个提名：
- A Morning Stroll – Grant Orchard (Studio AKA)
- A Shadow of Blue – Carlos Lascano
- Birdboy – Alberto Vasquez (Abrikim Studio)
- Chopin’s Drawings – Dorota Kobiela (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Correspondence – Zach Hyer (Pratt)
- Daisy Cutter – Enrique Garcia and Rubin Salazar (Silverspace)
- Dimanche / Sunday – Patrick Doyon (NFB)
- El Salon Mexico – Paul Glickman and Tamarind King
- Enrique Wrecks the World – David Chai *去年动画安尼奖提名*
- Ente Tod Und Tulipe (Duck Death and the Tulip) – Matthias Bruhn (Richard Lutterbeck – Trickstudio)
- Fat Hamster – Adam Wyrwas (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Grandpa Looked Like William Powell – David Levy
- Hamster Heaven – Paul Bolger (BreakThru Films) Poland
- 翠儿和大傻猫 I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat – Matt O’Callaghan (Warner Bros… 3D Sylvester vs. Tweety)
- I Was the Child of Holocaust Survivors – Anne Marie Fleming (NFB)
- Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest – Kevin Sean Michaels USA
- Kahanikar – Nandita Jain (National Film and Television School) England
- 月亮 La Luna – Enrico Casarosa (Pixar)
- Little Postman – Dorota Kobiela (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Luminaris – Juan Pablo Zaramella (JPZaramella Studios)
- Luna – Donna Brockopp (Rainmaker) Canada
- Maska – Timothy and Stephen Quay (Sem-ma-for) Poland
- Muybridge’s Strings – Koji Yamamura
- My Hometown – Jerry Levitan, Written and Narrated by Yoko Ono (Eggplant)
- Night Island – Salvador Maldonado (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Nullarbor – Alister Lockhart
- Papa’s Boy – Leevi Lemmetty (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Paths of Hate – Damien Nenow (Platige Image) Poland
- Romance – George Schwizgebel (NFB & Studio GDS)
- Specky Four-Eyes – Jean Claude Rozec (Vivement Lundi)
- Spirits of the Piano – Magdalena Osinska (BreakThru Films) Poland
- Thank You – Thomas Herpich (Frederator)
- 水怪之歌 The Ballad of Nessie – Stevie Wermers (Walt Disney Studios)
- The External World – David O’ Reilly
- The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg (Moonbot Studios)
- The Gloaming – Nobrain (Autour De Minuit) France
- The Lost Town of Switez – Kamil Polak (Human Ark) Poland
- The Magic Piano – Martin Clapp (BreakThru Films) Poland
- The Monster of Nix – Rosto
- The Renter – Jason Carpenter (CalArts) *去年动画安尼奖提名*
- 蓝精灵的圣诞颂歌 The Smurf’s A Christmas Carol – Troy Quane (Sony Pictures Animation)
- The Tannery – Iain Gardner (Axis Animation)
- The Vermeers – Tal S. Shamir
- Vicenta – Samuel Orti Marti
- Wild Life by Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby (NFB)