The Animation Show of Shows is a traveling selection of the year's best animated short films. It is curated and presented by Acme Filmworks founder Ron Diamond. The show began in 1998 with the aim of showing the most original, funny, and intelligent short animated films from all over the world by presenting them to major animation studios, in hope of inspiring their influential animators and directors. Since 2007, a number of the films have been released as DVDs.
Films included in the Shows
Notes ≈ Oscar nominee ± Oscar winner
1st Annual Animation Show of Shows • 1999 Village of Idiots by Eugene Fedorenka and Rose Newlove My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts≈ by Torill Kove 3 Misses≈ by Paul Driessen When the Day Breaks≈ by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
2nd Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2000 Father and Daughter± by Michael Dudok de WitThe Animation Show of Shows Goes Non-Profit|AWN La Pista by Gianluigi Toccafondo Run of the Mill by Borge Ring Crime and Punishment by Piotr Dumała
3rd Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2001 Radio Umanak by Marie José van der Linden A Hunting Lesson by Jacques Drouin Black Soul by Martine Chartrand Aria by Pjotr Sapegin
4th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2002 Flux by Chris Hinton From the 104th Floor by Serguei Bassine Hasta Los Huesos by René Castillo Mt. Head≈ by Kōji Yamamura The Rise & Fall of the Legendary Anglobilly Feverson by Rosto Aunt Luisa by Tim Miller
5th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2003 Fast Film by Virgil Widrich Cameras Take Five by Steven Woloshen Falling in Love Again by Munro Ferguson Car Craze by Evert de Beijer Nibbles≈ by Christopher Hinton The Toll Collector by Rachel Johnson Harvie Krumpet± by Adam Elliot Destino≈ by Dominique Monféry 2D or Not 2D by Paul Driessen
6th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2004 Get in the Car by Greg Holfeld Lorenzo≈ by Mike Gabriel Suite for Freedom by Aleksandra Korejwo, Caroline Leaf, Luc Perez The Man Without a Shadow by Georges Schwizgebel The Revolution of the Crabs by Arthur de Pins Ryan± by Chris Landreth
7th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2005 At The Quinte Hotel by Bruce Alcock City Paradise by Gaëlle Denis Fallen by Peter Kaboth The Fan and the Flower by Bill Plympton Jona/Tomberry by Rosto Life in Transition by John Dilworth Morir de Amor by Gil Alkabetz One Man Band≈ by Andrew Jimenez, Mark Andrews Overtime by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland and Damien Ferrie
8th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2006 Quien Engana No Gana by Rajiv Eipe, Kaustubh Ray The Danish Poet± by Torill Kove A Gentlemen’s Duel by Francisco Ruiz and Sean McNally My Love by Alexandr Petrov Shipwrecked by Frodo Kuipers No Time for Nuts≈ by Chris Renaud, Michael Thurmeier Tragic Story with Happy Ending by Regina Pessoa Lifted≈ by Gary Rydstrom
9th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2007 John and Karen by Matthew Walker Forgetfulness by Julian Grey I Met The Walrus≈ by Josh Raskin Madame Tutli-Putli≈ by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski Some Friends He Made: Molotov Alva Meets the Hobo King by Douglas Gayeton Ujbaz Izbeniki Has Lost His Soul by Neil Jack La Memoria Dei Cani by Simone Massi The Pearce Sisters by Luis Cook How to Hook Up Your Home Theater by Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers-Skelton En Tus Brazos by Fx Goby, Edouard Jouret and Matthieu Landour The Irresistible Smile by Ami Lindholm Beton by Ariel Belinco and Michael Faust Administrators by Roman Klochkov t.o.m. by Dan Gray and Tom Brown Életvonal by Tomek Ducki Camera Obscura by Matthieu Buchalski, Jean-Michel Drechsler and Thierry Onillon
10th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2008 Keith Reynolds Can’t Make It Tonight by Felix Massie La Maison en Petits Cubes± by Kunio Katō Kudan by Taku Kimura A Mouse's Tale by Benjamin Renner I Slept with Cookie Monster by Kara Nasdor-Jones Glago's Guest by Chris Williams Hot Seat by Janet Perlman Presto≈ by Doug Sweetland Skhizein by Jeremy Clapin KJFG No.5 by Alexey Alexeev
11th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2009 Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill The Da Vinci Time Code by Gil Alkabetz Volgens de Vogels by Linde Faas Santa: The Fascist Years by Bill Plympton Nuvole, Mani by Simone Massi El Empleo by Santiago "Bou" Grasso The Spine by Chris Landreth Chick by Michal Socha Partly Cloudy by Peter Sohn Runaway by Cordell Barker
12th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2010 Coyote Falls, Matthew O'CallaghanAnimation Show of Shows - Dodge College of Film and Media Arts Luis, Cristóbal León, Niles Atallah and Joaquín Cociña Tick Tock Tale, Dean Wellins Love & Theft, Andreas Hykade The Silence Beneath The Bark, Joanna Lurie The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger, Bill Plympton Maska, Brothers Quay Jean Francois, Tom Haugomat & Bruno Mangyoku Galeria, Robert Prouch The Lost Thing±, Shaun Tan & Andrew Ruhemann
13th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2011 La Luna≈ by Enrico Casarosa Mobile by Verena Fels Paths of Hate by Damian Nenow Schlaf (Sleep) by Claudius Gentinetta and Frank Braun Wild Life≈ by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis Luminaris by Juan Pablo Zaramella Romance by Georges Schwizgebel The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore± by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg Journey to Cape Verde (Viagem a Cabo Verde) by José Miguel Ribeiro
14th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2012 Paperman± by John Kahrs The Centrifuge Brain Project by Till Nowak Here and the Great Elsewhere by Michèle Lemieux Una Furtiva Lagrima by Carlo Vogele I Saw Mice Burying a Cat by Dmitry Geller The Case by Martin Zivocky 7596 Frames by Martin Georgiev Le Taxidermiste by Dorianne Fibleuil, Paulin Cointot, and Maud Sertour Flamingo Pride by Tomer Eshed Daffy's Rhapsody by Matt O'Callaghan Oh Willy! by Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels Tentation by Loris Accaries, Marie Ayme, Claire Baudean, and Audrey Janvier Tram by Michaela Pavlatova
15th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2013 Get a Horse!± by Lauren MacMullan Gloria Victoria by Theodore Ushev Bless You by David Barlow-Krelina Subconscious Password by Chris Landreth The Blue Umbrella by Saschka Unseld Drunker Than a Skunk by Bill Plympton International Fathers Day by Edmunds Jansons Home Sweet Home by Alejandrio Diaz, Pierre Clanet, Romain Mazevet and Stephane Paccolat My Mom is an Airplane! by Yula Aronova Madly in Love by Ikue Sugidono Nana Bobo by Andrea Cristofaro, Valentina Del Miglio, Francesco Nicolo Mereu and Lucas Wild do Vale Requiem for Romance by Jonathan Ng Marcel, King of Tevruen by Tom Schroeder Ascension by Caroline Domergue, Florian Vecchione, Martin de Coudenhove and Thomas Bourdis
16th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2014 Feast± by Patrick Osborne Bang Bang! by Julien Bisaro Marilyn Myller by Mikey Please Lava by James Murphy Me and My Moulton≈ by Torill Kove 365 by Greg and Myles McLeod We Can't Live Without Cosmos≈ by Konstantin Bronzit Duet by Glen Keane Hunger by Petra Zlonoga The Bigger Picture≈ by Daisy Jacobs Hipopotamy by Piotr Dumała
17th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2015 The Story of Percival Pilts by Janette Goodey and John Lewis Tant de Forets by Geoffrey Godet and Burcu Sankur Snowfall by Connor Whelan Ballad of Holland Island House by Lynn Tomlinson Behind the Trees by Amanda Palmer and Avi Ofer We Can't Live Without Cosmos by Konstantin Bronzit Messages Dans L'Air by Isabel Favez Stripy by Babak and Behnoud Nekooei Ascension by Thomas Bourdis, Martin de Coudenhove, Caroline Domergue, Colin Laubry, and Florian Vecchione In the Time of March Madness by Melissa Johnson and Robertino Zambrano World of Tomorrow≈ by Don Hertzfeldt
18th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2016 Stems by Ainslie Hendersen of Scotland Shift by Cecilia Puglesi and Yijun Liu of U.S. Pearl≈ by Patrick Osborne of the U.S. Crin-crin by Iris Alexandre of Belgium Mirror by Chris Ware, John Kuramoto, Ira Glass of U.S. Last summer in the garden by Bekky O’Neil of Canada Waiting for the New Year by Vladimir Leschiov of Latvia Piper± by Alan Barillaro of U.S. Bøygen by Kristian Pedersen of Norway Afternoon Class by Seoro Oh of Korea About a Mother by Dina Velikovskaya of Russia Exploozy by Joshua Gunn, Trevor Piecham, and John McGowan of U.S. Inner Workings by Leo Matsuda of U.S. Corpus by Marc Héricher of France Blue by Daniela Sherer of Israel Manoman by Simon Cartwright of England All Their Shades by Chloé Alliez of Belgium
19th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2018 Can You Do It-Quentin Baillieux, France Tiny Big-Lia Bertels, Belgium Next Door- Pete Docter, U.S. The Alan Dimension-Jac Clinch, U.K. Beautiful Like Elsewhere-Elise Simard, Canada Hangman- Paul Julian and Les Goldman, U.S. The Battle of San Romano- Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland Gokurosama-Clémentine Frère, Aurore Gal, Yukiko Meignien, Anna Mertz, Robin Migliorelli & Romain Salvini, France Dear Basketball±-Glen Keane, U.S. Island-Max Mörtl and Robert Löbel, Germany Unsatisfying-Parallel Studio, France My Burden-Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Sweden Les Abeilles Domestiques (Domestic Bees)-Alexanne Desrosiers, Canada Our Wonderful Nature: The Common Chameleon- Tomer Eshed, Germany Casino-Steven Woloshen, Canada Everything-David O'Reilly, U.S. 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows Press Kit
20th Annual Animation Show of Shows • 2019 The Green Bird-Maximilien Bougeois, Quentin Dubois, Marine Goalard, Irina Nguyen, Pierre Perveyrie, France One Small Step≈-Andrew Chesworth &Bobby Pontillas, U.S. Grands Canons-Alain Biet, France Barry-Anchi Shen, U.S. Super Girl-Nancy Kangas & Josh Kun, U.S. Love Me, Fear Me-Veronica Solomon, Germany Business Meeting-Guy Charnaux, Brazil Flower Found!-Jorn Leeuwerink, The Netherlands Bullets-Nancy Kangas & Josh Kun, U.S. A Table Game-Nicholás Petelski, Spain Carlotta's Face-Valentin Riedl & Frederic Schuld, Germany Age of Sail-John Kahrs, U.S. Polaris-Hikari Toriumi, U.S. My Moon-Eusong Lee, U.S. Weekends≈-Trevor Jimenez, U.S. 20th Annual Animation Show of Shows Press Kit
Films included on DVD
Box Set 1 Gopher Broke by Jeff Fowler The Hill Farm by Mark Baker The Fan and the Flower by Bill Plympton Astronauts by Matthew Walker Das Rad by Chris Stenner, Heidi Wittlinger and Arvid Uibel Ski Jumping Pairs by Riichiro Mashima City Paradise by Gaëlle Denis Anijam by Marv Newland Car Craze by Evert de Beijer Jolly Roger by Mark Baker Morir de Amor by Gil Alkabetz Cameras Take Five by Steven Woloshen Hilary by Anthony Hodgson Le Foto Dello Scandalo by Daniele Lunghini and Diego Zuelli Fast Film by Virgil Widrich A Gentlemen’s Duel by Francisco Ruiz and Sean McNally Life in Transition by John Dilworth The Revolution of the Crabs by Arthur de Pins
Box Set 2 Badgered by Sharon Colman Swamp by Gil Alkabetz Nibbles by Christopher Hinton Strange Invaders by Cordell Barker Run of the Mill by Borge Ring Falling in Love Again by Munro Ferguson Hasta Los Huesos by René Castillo Fallen by Peter Kaboth Crime and Punishment by Piotr Dumała Get in the Car by Greg Holfeld Aunt Luisa by Tim Miller The Toll Collector by Rachel Johnson Ryan by Chris Landreth Eat by Bill Plympton Flux by Chris Hinton My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts by Torill Kove Black Soul by Martine Chartrand Shipwrecked by Frodo Kuipers
Box Set 3 Father and Daughter by Michael Dudok de Wit 3 Misses by Paul Driessen From the 104th Floor by Serguei Bassine When the Day Breaks by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis When Life Departs by Stefan Fjeldmark and Karsten Kiilerich Radio Umanak by Marie José van der Linden The Monk And The Fish by Michael Dudok de Wit A Hunting Lesson by Jacques Drouin 2D or Not 2D by Paul Driessen Bob's Birthday by David Fine and Alison Snowden Aria by Pjotr Sapegin Girl's Night Out by Joanna Quinn The Cat Came Back by Cordell Barker