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