Academy Award for Animated Short Film

This class was known as "Short Subjects, cartoons" from 1932 until 1970, and as "Short Subjects, animated films" from 1971 to 1973. The present title began with the 1974 awards.

1980s

• 1980 The Fly - Pannonia Films, Budapest - Ferenc Rofusz
• All Nothing - Radio Canada - Frederic Back
• History of the World in Three Minutes Flat - Michael Mills Productions Ltd. - Michael Mills
• 1981 Crac - Société Radio Canada - Frederic Back
• The Creation - Will Vinton Productions - Will Vinton
• The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin - National Film Board of Canada - Janet Perlman
• 1982 Tango - Film Polski - Zbigniew Rybczynski
• The Great Cognito - Will Vinton Productions - Will Vinton
• The Snowman - Snowman Enterprises Ltd. - John Coates
• 1983 Sundae in New York - Walt Disney - Burny Mattinson
• Mickey's Christmas Carol - Motionpicker Production - Jimmy Picker
• Sound of Sunshine - Sound of Rain - Hallinan Plus - Eda Hallinan
• 1984 Charade - Sheridan College - Jon Minnis
• Doctor Desoto - Sporn Animation - Morton Schindel and Michael Sporn
• Paradise - National Film Board of Canada - Ishu Patel
• 1985 Anna & Bella - The Netherlands - Cilia Van Dijk
• The Big Snit - National Film Board of Canada - Richard Condie and Michael Scott
• Second Class Mail - National Film & Television School - Alison Snowden
• 1986 A Greek Tragedy - CineTe pvba - Linda Van Tulden and Willem Thijsen
• The Frog, The Dog and The Devil - New Zealand National Film Unit - Hugn MacDonald and Martin Townsend
• Luxo Jr. - Pixar Productions - John Lasseter and William Reeves
• 1987 The Man Who Planted Trees - Société Radio-Canada/Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Frederic Back
• George and Rosemary - National Film Board of Canada - Eunice Macauley
• Your Face - Bill Plympton
• 1988 Tin Toy
• The Cat Came Back - Cordell Barker
• Technological Threat - Bill Kroyer
• 1989 Balance - producers: Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein
• The Hill Farm - Mark Baker
• Korova - Aleksandr Petrov