The 87th Academy Award nominations came out this morning and two of ATLFF's competition shorts were nominated: The Dam Keeper (Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, USA) for best Animated Short Film and Butter Lamp (Hu Wei and Julien Féret, China/France) for best Live Action Short Film.

To celebrate these two Oscar nominations, we have rounded up official ATLFF animated and narrative competition short films (or their trailers, where the films weren't available) for your viewing pleasure.

Animated Shorts

The Dam Keeper (USA) | Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi

2015 Academy Award Animated Short Film Nominee

Snowdysseus (USA) | Evan Curtis

CRIME: The Animated Series - Marcus McGhee (USA/Canada) | Alix Lambert and Sam Chou

Dji. Death Fails (Moldova) | Dmitri Voloshin

Fingers Tale (Turkey) | Luca Schenato and Sinem Vardarli

Monkey Rag (USA) | Joanna Davidovich

Olive (USA) | Harriet-Lane Ngo

Rabbit and Deer (Hungary) | Péter Vácz

Strange Wonderful (USA) | Stephanie Swart

The Wanderer of Saint-Marcel (France) | Rony Hotin

Narrative Shorts

Butter Lamp (China/France) | Hu Wei and Julien Féret

2015 Academy Award Live Action Short Film Nominee

Afronauts (USA) | Frances Bodomo

Thirteen Blue (Greece) | Jacqueline Lentzou

Without Fire (USA) | Eliza McNitt

The Bravest, The Boldest (USA) | Moon Molson

216 Months (France) | Valentin Potier and Frédéric Potier

Animals (USA) | Alexander Yan

Mystery (Spain) | Chema García Ibarra

Damn Girl (Denmark) | Kira Richards Hansen

To view the complete list of 87th Academy Award Nominations for the 2015 Oscars, click here: http://bit.ly/1AuJZDK

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