100 Important Directors of Animated Shorts
In anticipation of They Shoot Pictures's upcoming Top 250 Short Films (live-action and animation) list,
the IMDb Classic Film board set out to create a list of 100 Important Directors of Animated Shorts along
with three representative short films for each director. For those animators with films in TSP's anticipated
list the Classic Film board chose three additional films - the titles in italics are those expected to be
on the TSPDT list. See
Shooting Down Pictures for some discussion regarding the project's genesis and how the directors were chosen.
Mikhail Aldashin
Rozhdestvo (1997)
The Other Side / Drugaya storona (1994)
Bookashky (2002)
Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker
Night on Bald Mountain / Une nuit sur le mont chauve (1933)
The Nose / Le nez (1963)
En passant (1943)
Tex Avery
Blitz Wolf (1942)
The Cat That Hated People (1948)
King-Size Canary (1947)
Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
The Legend of Rockabye Point (1955)
Lucky Ducky (1948)
Frédéric Back
Crac (1981)
The Man Who Planted Trees / L'homme qui plantait des arbres (1987)
The Mighty River / Le fleuve aux grandes eaux (1993)
All Nothing / Tout rien (1980)
Joseph Barbera and William Hanna
The Cat Concerto (1947)
Mouse in Manhattan (1945)
The Night Before Christmas (1941)
Garry Bardin
Adagio / Adazhio (2001)
The Coiling Prankster / Vykrutasy (1988)
Grey Wolf & Little Red Riding Hood / Seryy Volk end Krasnaya Shapochka (1990)
Jiri Barta
The Vanished World of Gloves / Zaniklý svet rukavic (1982)
The Last Theft / Poslední lup (1987)
The Club of the Laid Off / Klub odlozenych (1989)
Walerian Borowczyk
Les jeux des anges / The Game of Angels (1964)
Rosalie (1966)
Les astronautes (1959)
Dom / House (1958)
Renaissance (1963)
Scherzo infernal (1984)
The Concert of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal / Le concert de M. et Mme. Kabal (1962)
Charley Bowers
Now You Tell One (1926)
It's a Bird (1930)
There It Is (1928)
Egged On (1926)
Bruno Bozzetto
Grasshoppers / Cavallette (1990)
Life in a Tin / Una vita in scatola (1967)
Baeus (1987)
Konstantin Bronzit
At the Ends of the Earth / Au bout du monde (1999)
The God (2003)
Lavatory-Lovestory / Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya (2007)
Robert Cannon
Gerald McBoing Boing (1951)
Christopher Crumpet (1953)
The Jaywalker (1956)
Ivo Caprino
The Seventh Father in the House / Sjuende far i huset (1966)
Karius og Baktus (1954)
The Steadfast Tin Soldier / Den standhaftige tinnsoldat (1955)
Robert Clampett
Porky in Wackyland (1938)
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)
A Corny Concerto (1943)
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
Émile Cohl
Fantasmagorie (1908)
The Automatic Moving Company / Mobilier fidèle (1910)
The Hasher's Delirium / Le songe d'un garçon de café (1910)
Richard Condie
The Apprentice (1991)
The Big Snit (1985)
Getting Started (1979)
Arthur Davis
The Little Match Girl (1937)
Bowery Bugs (1949)
Dough Ray Me-ow (1948)
Walt Disney
Steamboat Willie (1928)
The Skeleton Dance (1929)
Plane Crazy (1928)
Alice's Wonderland (1923)
Borivoj Dovnikovic
Krek (1968)
Curiousity / Znatizelja (1967)
An Exciting Love Story / Uzbudljiva ljubavna prica (1989)
Paul Driessen
The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2000)
Au bout du fil / Cat's Cradle (1974)
Spotting a Cow / Het scheppen van een koe (1984)
Michael Dudok de Wit
Father and Daughter (2000)
The Monk and the Fish / Le moine et le poisson (1994)
The Aroma of Tea (2006)
Piotr Dumala
Walls / Sciany (1988)
Wolnosc nogi (1989)
Franz Kafka (1992)
David Fine and Alison Snowden
George and Rosemary (1987)
Bob's Birthday (1993)
Second Class Mail (1985)
Hans Fischerkosen
Weatherbeaten Melody / Scherzo - Verwitterte Melodie (1943)
The Snowman / Der Schneemann (1944)
Das blaue Wunder (1935)
Oskar Fischinger
Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)
Komposition in Blau / Composition in Blue (1935)
Allegretto (1936)
Studie Nr. 7 (1931)
Dave Fleischer
Out of the Inkwell (1938)
Snow-White (1933)
Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
Minnie The Moocher (1932)
Ko-Ko's Earth Control (1928)
Friz Freleng
Rhapsody In Rivets (1941)
High Diving Hare (1949)
Pigs in a Polka (1943)
Clyde Geronimi
Lend a Paw (1941)
Education For Death (1943)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1958)
Burt Gillett
Flowers and Trees (1932)
Three Little Pigs (1933)
Lonesome Ghosts (1937)
Bob Godfrey
Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel) (1975)
Kama Sutra Rides Again (1972)
Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit (1961)
Paul Grimault
The Scarecrow / L'épouvantail (1943)
Le petit soldat / The Little Soldier (1947)
Le chien mélomane (1973)
John Halas and Joy Batchelor
Automania 2000 (1964)
The Christmas Visitor (1959)
The Owl and the Pussycat (1952)
David Hand
Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)
Three Orphan Kittens (1935)
Thru the Mirror (1936)
Jack Hannah
Lambert The Sheepish Lion (1952)
The New Neighbor (1953)
In The Bag (1956)
Hugh Harman
Peace on Earth (1939)
Tale of the Vienna Woods (1934)
The Old Mill Pond (1936)
Pierre Hébert
Around Perception (1968)
Memories of War (1983)
Op Hop - Hop Op (1966)
Don Hertzfeldt
Rejected (2000)
Genre (1996)
The Meaning of Life (2005)
Co Hoedeman
The Sand Castle / Le château de sable (1977)
Tchou-tchou (1972)
Ludovic - The Snow Gift (1998)
Faith Hubley and John Hubley
The Tender Game (1958)
Moonbird (1959)
Rooty Toot Toot (1951)
Rudolf Ising
The Calico Dragon (1935)
The Bear and the Beavers (1942)
Dance of the Weed (1941)
Ivan Ivanov-Vano
Seasons / Vremena goda (1969)
Black and White / Blek end uait (Chernoe i beloe) (1932)
The Battle of Kerzhenets / Secha pri Kerzhentse (1971)
Ub Iwerks
Balloon Land (1935)
Hell's Bells (1929)
The Cuckoo Murder Case (1930)
Wilfred Jackson
The Band Concert (1935)
The Country Cousin (1936)
The Old Mill (1937)
Chuck Jones
Bully for Bugs (1953)
Duck Amuck (1953)
One Froggy Evening (1955)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century (1953)
Feed the Kitty (1952)
Rabbit of Seville (1950)
Piotr Kamler
Le labyrinthe (1969)
Coeur de secours (1973)
Le pas (1975)
Kihachiro Kawamoto
Sleeping Beauty / Ibara hime matawa Nemuri hime (1990)
House of Flame / Kataku (1979)
Dojoji / Dojoji Temple (1976)
William Kentridge
Felix in Exile (1994)
History of the Main Complaint (1996)
Automatic Writing (2003)
Fyodor Khitruk
Vinni Pukh (1969)
Ostrov / The Island (1973)
Film, Film, Film (1968)
Nikolai Khodataev
Interplanetary Revolution / Mezhplanetnaya revolyutsiya (1924)
China In Flames / Kitaj v ogne (Ruki proch' ot Kitaya!) (1925)
We'll Keep Our Eyes Peeled / Budem zorki (1927)
Andrey Khrzhanovskiy
The Glass Harmonica / Steklyannaya garmonika (1968)
Armoire (1970)
Butterfly / Babochka (1972)
Jack King
Mr. Duck Steps Out (1940)
Truant Officer Donald (1941)
Donald's Snow Fight (1942)
Jack Kinney
Der Fuehrer's Face (1942)
How to Swim (1942)
Goofy Gymnastics (1949)
How to Play Football (1944)
Igor Kovalyov
Hen, His Wife / Yego zhena kuritsa (1990)
Andrey Svislotskiy (1992)
Investigation is Held by the Koloboks (1986/1987)
Jerzy Kucia
Reflections / Refleksy (1979)
Across the Field / Przez pole (1992)
Tuning the Instruments / Strojenie instrumentów (2000)
Jean-François Laguionie
La demoiselle et le violoncelliste / The Lady and the Cellist (1965)
La traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame (1978)
Le masque du diable (1977)
René Laloux
Les escargots (1965)
Les temps morts (1964)
Comment Wang-Fo fut sauvé / How Wang-Fo Was Saved (1987)
Walter Lantz
The Hams That Couldn't Be Cured (1942)
Knock Knock (1940)
The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company "B" (1941)
John Lasseter
Knick Knack (1989)
Tin Toy (1988)
Red's Dream (1987)
Luxo, Jr. (1986)
Caroline Leaf
The Street (1976)
Two Sisters / Entre deux soeurs (1990)
The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1977)
Jan Lenica
Labirynt (1963)
Nowy Janko muzykant / New Janko the Musician (1961)
'A' (1965)
Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini
La tarantella di Pulcinella (1959)
The Thieving Magpie / La gazza ladra (1964)
Alì Babà (1970)
Len Lye
Free Radicals (1958)
Rainbow Dance (1936)
Trade Tattoo (1937)
A Colour Box (1935)
Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1940)
Colour Flight (1937)
Kenzô Masaoka
Nonsense Story, Volume 1: Monkey Island / Nansensu monogatari dai ippen: Sarugashima (1931)
A Song of the Chagama Family / Chagama ondo (1935)
The Spider and the Tulip / Kumo to chûrippu (1943)
Winsor McCay
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the NY Herald and His Moving Comics (1911)
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House (1921)
Robert McKimson
A-Lad-In His Lamp (1948)
Hillbilly Hare (1950)
Walky Talky Hawky (1946)
Norman McLaren
Begone Dull Care (1949)
C'est l'aviron (1944)
Dots (1940)
Neighbours (1952)
Pas de deux (1968)
The Young Grey Hen / La poulette grise (1947)
Blinkity Blank (1955)
A Chairy Tale (1957)
Le merle / The Blackbird (1958)
Otto Messmer
Felix In Hollywood (1923)
Comicalamities (1928)
Felix the Cat Dines and Pines (1927)
Eduard Nazarov
There Once Was a Dog / Zhil-byl pyos (1982)
Travels of an Ant / Puteshestvie muravya (1983)
Martynko / Martinko (1987)
Yuriy Norshteyn
Hedgehog in the Fog / Yozhik v tumane (1975)
Tale of Tales / Skazka skazok (1979)
The Fox and the Hare / Lisa i zayats (1973)
Heron and Crane / Tsaplya i zhuravl (1974)
Seasons / Vremena goda (1969)
Willis O'Brien
The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1918)
The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy (1915)
Prehistoric Poultry (1916)
George Pal
John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
Tubby the Tuba (1947)
Nick Park
The Wrong Trousers (1993)
Creature Comforts (1989)
A Close Shave (1995)
A Grand Day Out (1989)
Priit Pärn
Breakfast on the Grass / Eine murul (1987)
Hotel E (1992)
1895 (1995)
Ishu Patel
The Bead Game (1977)
Afterlife (1978)
Paradise/Paradis (1985)
Michaela Pavlátová
Reci, reci, reci... / Words, Words, Words (1991)
Repete (1995)
The Carnival of Animals / Karneval zvirat (2006)
Aleksandr Petrov
The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
My Love / Moya lyubov (2006)
The Cow / Korova (1989)
Bill Plympton
Your Face (1987)
25 Ways To Quit Smoking (1989)
Guard Dog (2004)
Bretislav Pojar
'E' (1981)
Nightangel (1986)
The Lion and the Song / Lev a písnicka (1959)
Barry Purves
Next (1989)
Screen Play (1993)
Achilles (1996)
Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Gilgamesh, or This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
In Absentia (2000)
Joanna Quinn
Dreams and Desires: Family Ties (2006)
Britannia (1993)
Girls Night Out (1987)
Lotte Reiniger
Papageno (1935)
The Little Chimney Sweep (1954)
Cinderella / Aschenputtel (1922)
Hansel and Gretel (1955)
Wolfgang Reitherman
The Truth About Mother Goose (1957)
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)
Walter Ruttmann
Melody of the World / Melodie der Welt (1929)
Opus II (1921)
Opus III (1924)
Opus IV (1925)
Zbigniew Rybczynski
Tango (1981)
Soup / Zupa (1975)
The Fourth Dimension (1988)
Georges Schwizgebel
78 Tours (1985)
La course à l'abîme (1992)
L'homme sans ombre / The Man with No Shadow (2004)
Garik Seko
My Kamarad Tika (1987)
Ex libris (1983)
Faust's House / Faustuv Dum (1977)
Raoul Servais
Harpya (1979)
Sirene (1968)
Atraksion (2001)
Ben Sharpsteen
Clock Cleaners (1937)
Mickey's Trailer (1938)
Mickey's Service Station (1935)
Harry Smith
Number 5: Circular Tensions: Homage to Oskar Fischinger (1949)
Number 7 (1951)
Number 10 (1956)
Wladyslaw Starewicz
The Cameraman's Revenge / Mest kinematograficheskogo operatora (1912)
Fétiche (1934)
The Insects' Christmas / Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa (1913)
The Frogs Who Wanted a King / Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi (1923)
The Voice of the Nightingale / La voix du rossignol (1923)
Jan Svankmajer
Dimensions of Dialogue / Moznosti dialogu (1982)
A Quiet Week in the House / Tichý týden v dome (1969)
Darkness/Light/Darkness / Tma/Svetlo/Tma (1989)
Down to the Cellar / Do pivnice (1983)
Jídlo / Food (1992)
Frank Tashlin
Porky Pig's Feat (1942)
Swooner Crooner (1944)
Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)
Te Wei
Where Is Mama? / Tadpoles Searching for Mother / Xiao ke dou zhao ma ma (1960)
The Cowboy's Flute / Mu di (1963)
Feeling from Mountain and Water / Shan shui qing (1988)
Osamu Tezuka
Jumping (1984)
Legend of the Forest / Mori no densetsu (1987)
Mermaid (1964)
Wendy Tilby
Tables of Contents (1986)
Strings (1991)
When the Day Breaks (1999)
Jiri Trnka
Ruka / The Hand (1965)
The Story of the Bass Cello / Román s basou (1949)
The Cybernetic Grandma / Kybernetická babicka (1962)
Will Vinton
Closed Mondays (1974) (with Bob Gardiner)
The Creation (1981)
The Great Cognito (1982)
Dusan Vukotic
Surogat / Ersatz (1961)
Igra / The Game (1962)
Piccolo (1959)
John Weldon
Special Delivery (1978)
The Lump (1991)
To Be (1990)
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