| It's a little late for this year's awards, but now is the time to prepare for 2002. To be eligable for an Academy Award for best short or best animated short, the film must have been shown at any one of a number of Academy selected festivals or award ceremonies. The festivals where inclusion provides Academy Award best short or best animated short nomination are detailed below, with, where possible, web links. Ann Arbor (Michigan) Film Festival
http://aafilmfest.org/ Annecy Festival Int'l Du Cinema D'animation
http://www.annecy-animation-festival.tm.fr/ Aspen Shortsfest
http://www.aspenfilm.org/ Athens (Ohio) Int'l Film Festival
http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~filmfest/ Atlanta Film Festival
http://www.imagefv.org/afvf/ Austin Film Festival
http://www.austinfilmfestival.org/ Berlin Int'l Film Festival
http://www.berlinale.de/ Bilbao Int'l Festival of Documentary & Short Films
Black Maria Film Festival
http://ellserver1.njcu.edu/TAEBMFF/ British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards
http://www.bafta.org Cannes Festival Int'l Du Film
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/ Cartagena Int'l Film Festival
http://www.escape.com/~spyder/CART.html Chicago Int'l Film Festival
http://www.chicago.ddbn.com/filmfest/ Cinanima Int'l Animation Film Festival
http://www.awn.com/cinanima/ Cracow Int'l Festival of Short Films
http://www.shortfilm.krakow.pl/ Foyle Film Festival
http://www.nerve-centre.org.uk/web/events/events.htm Gijon Int'l Film Festival for Young People
Hemisfilm (San Antonio, Tx)
Hiroshima Int'l Animation Festival
http://www.urban.ne.jp/home/hiroanim/ India Int'l Film Festival
Locarno Int'l Film Festival
http://www.pardo.ch/ London Int'l Animation Festival
Melbourne Int'l Film Festival
http://www.midg.com.au/miff/ Montreal Int'l Festival of New Cinema
http://www.fcmm.com/ Montreal World Film Festival
http://www.ffm-montreal.org/ Moscow Int'l Film Festival
Nashville Independent Film Festival
http://www.nashvillefilmfestival.org/ Oberhausen Int'l Short Film Festival
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/HRZ/IKF/ Ottawa Int'l Animation Festival
http://www.awn.com/ottawa/ Palm Springs Int'l Short Film Festival
http://www.psfilmfest.org/ San Francisco Int'l Film Festival
http://sfiff.org/ Santa Barbara Int'l Film Festival
http://www.sbfilmfestival.com/ Siggraph
http://www.siggraph.org/ Stuttgart Int'l Animation Festival
Sundance Film Festival
http://cybermart.com/sundance/institute/ Sydney Film Festival
http://www.sydfilm-fest.com.au/ Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival
Turin Int'l Film Festival of Young Cinema
http://www.torinofilmfest.org/ Uppsala Int'l Short Film Festival
http://www.shortfilmfestival.com/ USA Film Festival
http://www.usafilmfestival.com/ Venice Int'l Film Festival
Wellington Int'l Film Festival
World Animation Celebration (Los Angeles)
http://www.awn.com/wac/ Zagreb World Festival Of Animated Films
http://www.animafest.hr | 
