Hailing from more than 20 countries and encompassing almost every style, the 87 winners of the Best Animated Short Subject Oscar double as a microcosm of the history of world animation. By the beginning of the 1990s, studios like Pixar, Aardman, and Blue Sky helped mainstream animation in the English-speaking world and brought a newfound legitimacy to the art form that had not been seen since the golden age of the ’40s and ’50s.
When the studios shuttered their animation departments in the early 1960s, independent and international filmmakers began to dominate category, a trend that reached its peak in the ’70s and ’80s. At that point, every major studio had an animation wing producing cartoons for theaters, and these cartoons dominated the Oscars for almost the first 30 years. Though animation has been around since before the first Academy Awards, it wasn’t until the fifth Oscars ceremony, for films released between 1931–32, that the Academy created the Best Short Subject categories, including one for animation. This story has been updated to include the recent Oscar winner “Bao.”
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