81st Academy Awards
Short Film Categories · 2009
✨ Short Film, Animated
🏆 Winner
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Directed by Kunio Kato
Other Nominees
- A Matter of Loaf and DeathNick ParkUK
- French RoastFabrice O. JoubertFrance
- Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping BeautyNicky PhelanIreland
- Lavatory — LovestoryKonstantin BronzitRussia
- OktapodiEmud Mokhberi, Thierry MarchandFrance
- PrestoDoug SweetlandUSA
- The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)Javier Recio GraciaSpain
- This Way UpAlan Smith, Adam FoulkesUK
🎬 Documentary Short Subject
🏆 Winner
Smile Pinki
Directed by Megan Mylan
Other Nominees
- The Conscience of Nhem EnUSA
- The Final InchUSA
- The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306Adam Pertofsky, Margaret HydeUSA
- The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306USA
🎭 Short Film, Live Action
🏆 Winner
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Directed by Jochen Alexander Freydank
Other Nominees
- Auf der StreckeReto CaffiSwitzerland/Germany
- Auf der Strecke (On the Line)Switzerland
- Manon on the AsphaltFrance
- New BoyIreland
- The PigUK