Following a special two-day screening event in New York organized by Patrick Harrison and John Fahr, animator Michael Sporn on his Splog blog details a list of 57 (Update: 56! Sporn's blog inadvertently skips #44) animated shorts that have qualified for the 2012 Oscar race. The number is quite a jump from 2011, when 45 shorts qualified. In 2010, only 33 shorts qualified for the award.

Commenting that the event was “like attending an animation festival compressed into two days,” Sporn notes that the screenings were only for the hard of heart. Here, in alphabetical order, is the complete list. Head over to Sporn’s blog to see which films stood out for him, and let us know your favorites in the comments:

1. 7596 Frames
2. Adam and Dog
3. Amazonia
4. Being Bradford Dillman
5. Belly
6. Body Memory (Keha Ma’I LI)
7. Bydlo
8. Cadaver
9. Chase
10. Combustible
11. Daffy’s Rhapsody
12. Dell’ Ammazzare Il Maiale
13. Dripped
14. Edmond Was a Donkey
15. Fear of Flying
16. Fresh Guacamole
17. Head Over Heels
18. Here and the Great Elsewhere
19. House of Monsters
20. I Hate You, Red Light
21. I Saw Mice Burying a Cat
22. It’s Such a Beautiful Day
23. Junkyard
24. Kali the Little Vampire
25. Kara
26. Kubla Khan
27. La Detente 
28. Lost and Found
29. Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare’
30. Oh Willy…
31. Overcast
32. Paperman
33. Pasteurized
34. Pepe & Lucas
35. Reflexion
36. Sammy
37. Shift
38. Slow Derek
39. The Eagleman Stag
40. The Fall of the House of Usher
41. The Game 
42. The Gruffalo’s Child
43. The Hybrid Union
44. The Last Bus (Posledny Autobus)
45. The Maker
46. The Making of Longbird
47. The Missing Key
48. The Pub
49. The Story of Pines
50. The Tale of a String
51. The Wind Girl (La Nina de Viento)
52. Traces
53. Tram
54. Wiggle Room
55. Wolf Dog Tales
56. Zeinek Gehiago Iraun