Crac is a 1981 animated short film produced, written and directed by Frédéric Back .
6-459: The story follows the experiences of a rocking chair, from its creation from a tree through its time as a member of a Canadian farming family. Crac won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film . It also was part of Animation Show of Shows . Animation critic Charles Solomon named it as one of the best animated films of the 1980s. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
12-550: A second statuette may be awarded." Only American films were nominated for the award until the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) was nominated for The Romance of Transportation in Canada in 1952. The first non-English-language international short to win was Zagreb Film 's Ersatz (The Substitute) in 1961. The first film to win in this category was Flowers and Trees by Walt Disney , who has since held
18-521: Is Nick Park , with three wins: 1 for Creature Comforts and 2 for the Wallace & Gromit series. The Academy defines short as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits." Fifteen films are shortlisted before nominations are announced. In the listings below, the title shown in boldface was the winner of the award in that given year, followed by the other nominees for that year. All bars that are highlighted yellow were winners—with
24-481: Is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards , or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1931–32, to the present. From 1932 until 1970, the category was known as Short Subjects, Cartoons ; and from 1971 to 1973 as Short Subjects, Animated Films . The present title began with the 46th Awards in 1974. During
30-528: The category's record for most nominations (39) and most wins (12). MGM 's Tom and Jerry (1940–67) is the category's most lauded animated series over all, being nominated for a total of 13 Oscars and winning 7. Warner Bros. 's Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies series also had a big amount of 16 Oscar nominations and winning 5. Among international studios, the NFB has the most wins in this category, with 6 Oscars. The biggest showing from Britain in this category
36-399: The first 5 decades of the award's existence, awards were presented to the producers of the shorts. Current Academy rules, however, call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film." Moreover, "[i]n the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions,
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