Every Oscars Best Animated Short Film winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 26 different winners.

One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by distributor; scroll sideways for the full run.

The Old Man and the Sea'00

Father and Daughter'01

For the Birds'02

The ChubbChubbs!'03

Harvie Krumpet'04

Ryan'05

The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation'06

The Danish Poet'07

Peter and the Wolf'08

La Maison en Petits Cubes'09

Logorama'10

The Lost Thing'11

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore'12

Paperman'13

Mr Hublot'14

Feast'15

Bear Story'16

Piper'17

Dear Basketball'18

Bao'19

Hair Love'20

If Anything Happens I Love You'21

The Windshield Wiper'22

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse'23

War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko'24

In the Shadow of the Cypress'25

Wins by distributor

Disney524%
Sony210%
Apple TV+15%
Barfak Studio15%
Cinema Public Films15%
CinéTé Filmproductie15%
Other1048%

5 further wins have no distributor on record and are not counted in the 21 above.

5 of these 26 wins have no distributor on record, so the bar covers the other 21.

The full list

Year	Winner	Distributor
2025	In the Shadow of the Cypress beat 4 others Beautiful Men Magic Candies Wander to Wonder Yuck!	Barfak Studio
2024	War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko beat 4 others Letter to a Pig Ninety-Five Senses Our Uniform Pachyderme	ElectroLeague
2023	The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse beat 4 others The Flying Sailor Ice Merchants My Year of Dicks An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It	Apple TV+
2022	The Windshield Wiper beat 4 others Affairs of the Art Bestia Boxballet Robin Robin	The Animation Showcase
2021	If Anything Happens I Love You beat 4 others Burrow Genius Loci Opera Yes-People	Netflix
2020	Hair Love beat 4 others Daughter Kitbull Mémorable Sister	Sony Pictures Releasing
2019	Bao beat 4 others Animal Behaviour Late Afternoon One Small Step Weekends	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
2018	Dear Basketball beat 4 others Garden Party Lou Negative Space Revolting Rhymes	Granity Studios
2017	Piper beat 4 others Blind Vaysha Borrowed Time Pear Cider and Cigarettes Pearl	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
2016	Bear Story beat 4 others Prologue Sanjay's Super Team We Can't Live Without Cosmos World of Tomorrow	Punkrobot Studio
2015	Feast beat 4 others The Bigger Picture The Dam Keeper Me and My Moulton A Single Life	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
2014	Mr Hublot beat 4 others Feral Get a Horse! Possessions Room on the Broom	No distributor credited
2013	Paperman beat 4 others Adam and Dog Fresh Guacamole Head Over Heels The Longest Daycare	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
2012	The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore beat 4 others La Luna A Morning Stroll Sunday Wild Life	No distributor credited
2011	The Lost Thing beat 4 others Day and Night The Gruffalo Let's Pollute Madagascar, a Journey Diary	No distributor credited
2010	Logorama beat 4 others French Roast Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty The Lady and the Reaper A Matter of Loaf and Death	Cinema Public Films
2009	La Maison en Petits Cubes beat 4 others Lavatory – Lovestory Oktapodi Presto This Way Up	Oh! Production
2008	Peter and the Wolf beat 4 others Even Pigeons Go to Heaven I Met the Walrus Madame Tutli-Putli My Love	No distributor credited
2007	The Danish Poet beat 4 others Lifted The Little Matchgirl Maestro No Time for Nuts	Norwegian Film Institute
2006	The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation beat 4 others 9 Badgered The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello One Man Band	No distributor credited
2005	Ryan beat 4 others Birthday Boy Gopher Broke Guard Dog Lorenzo	National Film Board of Canada
2004	Harvie Krumpet beat 4 others Boundin Destino Gone Nutty Nibbles	Melodrama Pictures
2003	The ChubbChubbs! beat 4 others The Cathedral Das Rad Mike's New Car Mt. Head	Sony Pictures Releasing
2002	For the Birds beat 4 others Fifty Percent Grey Give Up Yer Aul Sins Strange Invaders Stubble Trouble	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
2001	Father and Daughter beat 2 others The Periwig-Maker Rejected	CinéTé Filmproductie
2000	The Old Man and the Sea beat 4 others 3 Misses Humdrum My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts When the Day Breaks	Filmoption International

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