Ten Titles Make the Oscar Short List

The Oscars

Ten animated short films have advanced in the voting process for the 2014 Academy Awards, from the 56 films that originally qualified in the category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday.

The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with the production company in parentheses:

Feral, Daniel Sousa, director, and Dan Golden, music and sound design (Daniel Sousa)

Get a Horse!, Lauren MacMullan, director, and Dorothy McKim, producer (Walt Disney Feature Animation)

Get a Horse!

Gloria Victoria, Theodore Ushev, director (National Film Board of Canada)

Hollow Land, Uri Kranot and Michelle Kranot, directors (Dansk Tegnefilm, Les Films de l’Arlequin and the National Film Board of Canada)

The Missing Scarf, Eoin Duffy, director, and Jamie Hogan, producer (Belly Creative Inc.)

Mr. Hublot, Laurent Witz, director, and Alexandre Espigares, co-director (Zeilt Productions)

Possessions, Shuhei Morita, director (Sunrise Inc.)

Possessions

Requiem for Romance, Jonathan Ng, director (Kungfu Romance Productions Inc.)

Requiem for Romance

Room on the Broom, Max Lang and Jan Lachauer, directors (Magic Light Pictures)

Subconscious Password, Chris Landreth, director (National Film Board of Canada with the participation of Seneca College Animation Arts Centre and Copperheart Entertainment)

The Academy’s Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting at screenings held in New York and Los Angeles. Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select three to five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in December.

The 86th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 16, 2014, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.