The website Cartoonbrew.com has published a (non-official) list of the 92 animated short films from around the world that are currently candidates for the Oscars 2020. With 23 French titles included in the list, France has the second highest number of eligible films after the United States.
Of the 23 eligible films (for which Cartoonbrew specifies in each case the relevant eligibility criteria, such as awards at film festivals or release in the USA), 15 titles can be viewed in the UniFrance Short Film Gallery, which is made accessible to UniFrance members.
The following 15 films are accessible for viewing in the UniFrance SFG:
- Augur by David Doutel & Vasco Sá
- Egg by Martina Scarpelli
- (Fool Time) JOB by Gilles Cuvelier
- Grand Bassin by Héloïse Courtois, Chloé Plat, Victori Jalabert & Adèle Raigneau
- Guaxuma by Nara Normande
- I’m Going Out For Cigarettes by Osman Cerfon
- Le Mans 1955 by Quentin Baillieux
- Maestro by Illogic
- Mr. Mare by Luca Tóth
- The Ostrich Politic by Mohamad Houhou
- Raymonde or the Vertical Escape by Sarah Van Den Boom
- Reruns by Rosto
- Riviera by Jonas Schloesing
- Roughhouse by Jonathan Hodgson
- Under the Rib Cage by Bruno Tondeur
Other French films also eligible:
- Flowing Through Wonder by Joanna Lurie
- Follow the White Rabbid by Meat Dept
- Hors piste by Léo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert & Oscar Malet
- How I Left Your Father by Explosm/Connor Murphy
- Memorable by Bruno Collet
- My Generation by Ludovic Houplain
- Portrait of Suzanne by Izabela Plucińska
- Uncle Thomas by Regina Pessoa
A short list of 10 titles will be announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) before the end of the year, prior to the announcement in January 2020 of the six official nominees.
We can note that at the Oscars 2019, two French animated shorts made it into the final nominee list: Garden Party and Negative Space.
