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This list of Academy Award shortlists includes finalists determined prior to Academy Award nominations. Multiple branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences create shortlists before selecting final nominees.
The finalists for Best Art Direction were chosen by members of the Art Directors Branch. Between 1948 and 1979, a preferential ballot determined ten finalists. A second preferential ballot determined the five nominees in each category. Preliminary voting was eliminated for this category beginning with the 53rd Academy Awards. [1]
The finalists for Best Cinematography were chosen by members of the Cinematographers Branch. Between 1948 and 1979, a preferential ballot determined ten finalists. A second preferential ballot determined the five nominees in each category. Preliminary voting was eliminated for this category beginning with the 53rd Academy Awards. [1]
The finalists for Best Costume Design were chosen by members of the Costume Designers Branch. Between 1948 and 1979, a preferential ballot determined ten finalists. A second preferential ballot determined the five nominees in each category. Preliminary voting was eliminated for this category beginning with the 53rd Academy Awards. [1]
The finalists for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary (Short Subject) are chosen by members of the Documentary Branch. A preferential ballot determines fifteen finalists for Documentary Feature and ten finalists for Best Documentary (Short Subject) from the full list of submissions. A second preferential ballot determines the five nominees in each category. [5]
The finalists for Best Film Editing were chosen by members of the Editors Branch. Between 1948 and 1979, a preferential ballot determined ten finalists. A second preferential ballot determined the five nominees in each category. Preliminary voting was eliminated for this category beginning with the 53rd Academy Awards. [1]
The finalists for Best International Feature Film are selected by the International Feature Film Preliminary Voting Committee. Ten films are shortlisted. The preliminary committee's top seven choices are augmented by three additional films selected by the International Feature Film Executive Committee. [5] The first year of shortlisting was 2006 and the executive committee's picks were instituted in 2008. [37] Prior to the 92nd Academy Awards, only nine films were shortlisted.
The finalists for Best Makeup and Hairstyling are selected by the Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Executive Committee. The committee selects ten films for the shortlist. The full membership branch is invited to view excerpts and is provided with supporting information at a "bake-off" where balloting determines the five nominees. [5] Prior to the 92nd Academy Awards, only seven films were shortlisted. [49] Fewer than seven films could be shortlisted before 2003 and only two films were shortlisted in 2002. [50]
The finalists for Best Original Score and Best Original Song are selected by members of the Music Branch. Fifteen films are shortlisted in each category using preferential balloting. Film clips of eligible songs are made available for viewing by branch members. A second round of preferential balloting determines the five nominees in each category. [5] Preliminary voting was first conducted for the music categories from 1948 to 1979. It eliminated for these categories beginning with the 53rd Academy Awards [1] before returning in 2018.
The finalists for Best Animated Short Film and Best Live Action Short Film are selected by members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch. Based on balloting results, between six and ten finalists may be chosen in each category from the full list of submissions. A second round of balloting determines the five nominees in each category. [5]
Year | Film |
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2018 (91st) [22] | |
Age of Sail | |
Animal Behaviour ‡ | |
Bao † | |
Bilby | |
Bird Karma | |
Late Afternoon ‡ | |
Lost & Found | |
One Small Step ‡ | |
Pépé le Morse | |
Weekends ‡ | |
2019 (92nd) [23] | |
Dcera (Daughter) ‡ | |
Hair Love † | |
He Can't Live without Cosmos | |
Hors Piste | |
Kitbull ‡ | |
Mémorable ‡ | |
Mind My Mind | |
The Physics of Sorrow | |
Sister ‡ | |
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days | |
Year | Film |
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2018 (91st) [22] | |
Caroline | |
Chuchotage | |
Detainment ‡ | |
Fauve ‡ | |
Icare | |
Marguerite ‡ | |
May Day | |
Mother ‡ | |
Skin † | |
Wale | |
2019 (92nd) [23] | |
Brotherhood ‡ | |
The Christmas Gift | |
Little Hands | |
Miller & Son | |
Nefta Football Club ‡ | |
The Neighbors' Window † | |
Refugee | |
Saria ‡ | |
A Sister ‡ | |
Sometimes, I Think about Dying | |
The finalists for Best Sound were chosen by members of the Sound Branch. Between 1948 and 1979, a preferential ballot determined ten finalists. A second preferential ballot determined the five nominees in each category. Preliminary voting was eliminated for this category beginning with the 53rd Academy Awards. [1]
Shortlisted finalists for Best Sound Editing were named between 1981 and 2005. The full membership of the Sound Branch was invited to view excerpts and provided with supporting information at a "bake-off" where balloting determined the nominees. The category eliminated its shortlist and bake-off in 2006 when voting transitioned to preferential balloting. [73]
The finalists for Best Visual Effects are selected by the Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee. Beginning with a long-list of up to 20 titles, the committee then advances ten films to the shortlist. [5] Prior to the 83rd Academy Awards, only seven films were shortlisted. [82] The full membership of the Visual Effects Branch is invited to view excerpts and is provided with supporting information at a "bake-off" where balloting determines the five nominees.
The Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling is the Academy Award given to the best achievement in makeup and hairstyling for film. Traditionally, three films have been nominated each year with exceptions in the early 1980s and 2002 when there were only two nominees; in 1999, when there were four nominees. Beginning with the 92nd Academy Awards, five films were nominated.
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for animated films. An animated feature is defined by the Academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films made in 2001.
The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.
The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight. They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. Copies of every winning film are held by the Academy Film Archive. Fifteen films are shortlisted before nominations are announced.
The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing was an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound design or sound editing. Sound editing is the creation of sound effects. The award was usually received by the Supervising Sound Editors of the film, sometimes accompanied by the Sound Designers. Beginning with the 93rd Academy Awards, Best Sound Editing will be combined with Best Sound Mixing as a single award for Best Sound.
This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year. Copies of every winning film are held by the Academy Film Archive. Ten films are shortlisted before nominations are announced.
Mitchell Block is an American filmmaker, primarily a producer of documentary films.
Buzkashi Boys is a 2012 film, co-produced in Afghanistan and the United States. It was considered and later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
These are the lists of documentary films that were shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in recent years.
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