Yesterday, the Motion Picture Academy screened 45 qualified animated short films for short list voting in a program from which the eventual 2011 Oscar winner will be chosen.  Most people don’t keep tabs on the best new animated shorts produced each year.

However, now you know that this year’s Oscar-winning short, to be crowned next February 26th, is one of the films on the list shown below. 

The LA screening, to be followed by a New York screening next week, presented 45 short films for attending Academy members.  From these 45 films, the annual 10 film "short list" will be chosen for voting by the members of the Short Films and Animated Features branch, which will whittle the list down to the final 5 nominees.  These nominees are then voted on by the entire Academy membership at designated screenings. AWN will publish more information on this process and selection of films in the coming weeks.

The complete 45 film list is as follows:

A Morning Stroll     
Directed by Grant Orchard (Studio AKA) England    
http://www.studioaka.co.uk/#/work-amorningstroll

A Shadow of Blue     
Directed by Carlos Lascano
http://www.carloslascano.com/carloslascano/vid_asob.html

Birdboy     
Directed by Alberto Vasquez (Abrikim Studio)     
http://www.birdboy.net

Chopin's Drawings    
Directed by Dorota Kobiela (BreakThru Films) Poland    
http://www.annecy.org/annecy-2012/festival/programmes/programme-film-ind...

Correspondence      
Directed by Zach Hyer (Pratt)    
http://zachhyer.com/

Daisy Cutter     
Directed by Enrique Garcia & Rubin Salazar (Silverspace)     
http://www.daisycutter.es/

Dimanche/ Sunday     
Directed by Patrick Doyon (NFB)     
http://www.nfb.ca/film/dimanche_bande_annonce/

El Salon Mexico      
Directed by Paul Glickman and Tamarind King     
http://www.elsalonmexico.com/

Enrique Wrecks the World      
Directed by David Chai    
http://www.houseofchai.net

Ente Tod Und Tulipe (Duck Death and the Tulip)     
Directed by Matthias Bruhn (Richard Lutterbeck - Trickstudio)     
http://www.animamundi.com.br/en/festival/detalhes_filme_festival.php/193...

Fat Hamster    
Directed by Adam Wyrwas (BreakThru Films) Poland    
http://www.annecy.org/annecy-2012/festival/programmes/programme-film-ind...

Grandpa Looked Like William Powell     
Directed by David Levy     
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grandpa-Looked-Like-William-Powell/1139967...

Hamster Heaven    
Directed by Paul Bolger (BreakThru Films) Poland    
http://www.facebook.com/hamsterheaven

I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat    
Directed by Matt O'Callaghan (Warner Bros.)    
http://www.awn.com/news/cg/cg-looney-tunes-mel-blanc-coming-theaters

I Was the Child of Holocaust Survivors     
Directed by Anne Marie Fleming (NFB)     
http://www.nfb.ca/film/i_was_child_holocaust_survivors_clip_2

Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest    
Directed by Kevin Sean Michaels USA    
http://ingridpitt.co.uk/

Kahanikar    
Directed by Nandita Jain (National Film and Television School) England    
http://www.nftsanimation.org/departments.htm

La Luna    
Directed by Enrico Casarosa (Pixar)    
http://www.awn.com/articles/article/first-look-pixars-la-luna

Little Postman    
Directed by Dorota Kobiela (BreakThru Films) Poland    
http://www.facebook.com/LPostman

Luminaris    
Directed by Juan Pablo Zaramella (JPZaramella Studios)    
http://www.zaramella.com.ar/

Luna   
Directed by Donna Brockopp (Rainmaker) Canada    
http://www.rainmaker.com/luna/

Maska    
Directed by Timothy and Stephen Quay (Sem-ma-for) Poland    
http://www.se-ma-for.com/en/films/13-maska

Muybridge's Strings     
Directed by Koji Yamamura     
http://www.yamamura-animation.jp/E_Body.html

My Hometown    
Produced and Directed by Jerry Levitan, Written and Narrated by Yoko Ono (Eggplant)    
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isPVjHxxW5s