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) 阅读全文