The Best Oscar-Winning Animated Shorts, Ranked

From its earliest honorees to the present, the Academy Award for Best Animated Short doubles as a kind of history of the ever-changing medium. We ranked them all — from animation’s Golden Age to the arrival of Pixar and beyond.

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