To be eligable for an Academy Award for best short, the film must have been shown at any one of a number of Academy selected festivals. Some of the festivals that have included nominations in the past, are listed below.  More information can be found at the official website for the Academy Awards at www.oscars.org.

 

• Academia de Las Artes y Ciencias Cinematograficas de España
  http://

 

• Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma (César)
  http://www.lescesarducinema.com

 

• Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (Genie)
  http://www.academy.ca/

 

• Ann Arbor (Michigan) Film Festival
  http://aafilmfest.org/

 

• Annecy Festival International Du Cinema D'animation
  http://www.annecy-animation-festival.tm.fr/

 

• Aspen Shortsfest
  http://www.aspenfilm.org/

 

• Athens (Ohio) International Film Festival
  http://www.cats.ohiou.edu/~filmfest/

 

• Atlanta Film Festival
  http://www.imagefv.org/afvf/

 

• Austin Film Festival
  http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/

 

• Berlin International Film Festival
  http://www.berlinale.de/

 

• Bermuda International Film Festival
  http://www.bermudafilmfest.com

 

• Bilbao International Festival of Documentary & Short Films
  http://www.zinebi.com/

 

• Black Maria Film Festival
  http://www.blackmariafilmfestival.com/

 

• British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards
  http://www.bafta.org

 

• Cannes Festival International Du Film
  http://www.festival-cannes.fr/

 

• Cartagena International Film Festival
  http://www.festicinecartagena.com/

 

• Chicago International Children's Film Festiva
  http://www.cicff.org/

 

• Chicago International Film Festival
  http://films.site9.net/

 

• Cinanima International Animation Film Festival
  http://www.awn.com/cinanima/

 

• Cinequest Film Festival
  http://www.cinequest.org

 

• Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
  http://www.clermont-filmfest.com

 

• Cracow International Festival of Short Films
  http://www.cracowfilmfestival.pl

 

• David Di Donatello Award
  http://www.daviddidonatello.it

 

• European Film Awards
  http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org

 

• Festival de Cine de Huesca
  http://www.huesca-filmfestival.com

 

• Flickerfest
  http://www.flickerfest.com.au

 

• Florida Film Festival
  http://www.floridafilmfestival.com/

 

• Foyle Film Festival
  http://www.foylefilmfestival.com/

 

• Gijon International Film Festival for Young People
  http://www.gijonfilmfestival.com/

 

• The Hamptons International Film Festival
  http://www.hamptonsfilmfest.org

 

• Hemisfilm (San Antonio, Tx)
  http://

 

• Hiroshima International Animation Festival
  http://www.urban.ne.jp/home/hiroanim/

 

• India International Film Festival
  http://www.mib.nic.in/dff/

 

• Locarno International Film Festival
  http://www.pardo.ch/

 

• London Int'l Animation Festival
  http://

 

• Los Angeles Film Festival
  http://www.lafilmfest.com

 

• Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
  http://www.lashortsfest.com/

 

• Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
  http://www.latinofilm.org

 

• Melbourne International Film Festival
  http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/

 

• Montreal International Festival of New Cinema
  http://www.fcmm.com/

 

• Montreal World Film Festival
  http://www.ffm-montreal.org/

 

• Moscow Int'l Film Festival
  http://

 

• Nashville Film Festival
  http://www.nashvillefilmfestival.org/

 

• Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
  http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/ikf/pages/festival

 

• Ottawa International Animation Festival
  http://www.awn.com/ottawa/

 

• Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
  http://www.psfilmfest.org/

 

• Rhode Island International Film Festival
  http://www.film-festival.org/

 

• San Francisco International Film Festival
  http://sfiff.org/

 

• Santa Barbara International Film Festival
  http://www.sbfilmfestival.org/

 

• Short Shorts Film Festival
  http://www.shortshorts.org

 

• Shorts International Film Festival
  http://www.shorts.org/

 

• Siggraph
  http://www.siggraph.org/

 

• Slamdance Film Festival
  http://www.slamdance.com/

 

• St. Louis International Film Festival
  http://www.sliff.org/

 

• Stuttgart International Animation Festival
  http://www.itfs.de/

 

• Sundance Film Festival
  http://festival.sundance.org/

 

• Sydney Film Festival
  http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org/

 

• Tampere Film Festival
  http://www.tamperefilmfestival.fi

 

• Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival
  http://www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com/

 

• Turin International Film Festival of Young Cinema
  http://www.torinofilmfest.org/

 

• Uppsala International Short Film Festival
  http://www.shortfilmfestival.com/

 

• USA Film Festival
  http://www.usafilmfestival.com/

 

• Venice International Film Festival
  http://

 

• Wellington Int'l Film Festival
  http://

 

• World Animation Celebration (Los Angeles)
  http://

 

• Zagreb World Festival Of Animated Films
  http://www.animafest.hr/

     

More Real Film Festivals

• Academia Film Olomouc
• American Film Institute Los Angeles Film Festival
• Amnesty International Film Festival
• Angelciti International Film Festival
• Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film and Video
• AnimeFEST! - Autumn Festival of Asian Cinema
• Aurora Picture Show Shorts Showcase
• Athens Film Festival
• Bare Bones International Film Festival
• Berlin Film Festival
• Bermuda International Film Festival
• Beverly Hills Film Festival
• Boston Jewish Film Festival
• Breckenridge Festival of Film
• Bumbershoot Seattle Arts Festival
• California International Film/Video Festival
• Cannes International Film Festival
• Canyonlands Film / Video Festival
• Carolina Films and Video Festival
• Central Florida Film Festival
• Cleveland International Film Festival
• Chicago Asian American Showcase
• Chicago International Film Festival
• The Chicago Underground Film Festival
• Columbus International Film Video Festival
• Conduit 2K: A Digital Film and Gaming Festival
• Crested Butte Reel Festival
• Crossroads Film Festival
• da Vinci Film and Video Festival, The
• Dallas Video Festival
• DancesWithFilms
• DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
• Denver Jazz on Film Festival
• East Lansing Film Festival
• Festival Film-Video Independen Indonesia
• First Festival of Independent Audio/Visual Arts Online
• Grand Haven Film Festival
• Havana Film Festival in New York
• Hamptons International Film Festival
• Hardshare Independent Film Festival
• Hollywood International Film Festival
• Hollywood Shorts Film Festival
• INPUT - International Public Television Screening Conference
• The International Film Festival Rotterdam
• International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg
• Iowa Independent Film and Video Festival
• Irish International Film Feadh
• Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
• Jamarican Film and Music Festival, The
• John Hopkins Film Festival
• Kansas City Filmmakers Juliblee
• Kingman Films International
• Latino Film Festival of Marin
• LiteStar Film Festival
• Long Island International Film Expo
• Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film / Video Festival
• Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
• Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
• Maine International Film Festival
• Manhattan Short Film Festival
• Marco Island Film Festival
• Margaret Mead Film / Video Festival
• Maui Film Festival
• Method Fest Independent Film Festival
• Miami Film Festival
• Mill Valley Film Festival
• The Montreal International Festival of Cinema and New Media
• The Montreal World Film Festival
• Myhelan Indie Film Fest
• Nantucket Film Festival
• Narrowsburg International Film Festival
• Native American Film and Video Festival
• New Festival, The
• New Orleans Film Festival
• New York Film Festival
• New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
• New York Lower East Side Film Festival
• New York Underground Film Festival
• Newport International Film Festival
• NEXTFRAME International Student Film and Video Festival
• Northwest Film and Video Festival
• Ojai Film Festival
• Overlooked Film Festival
• Palm Beach International Film Festival
• Palm Springs International Film Festival
• Peachtree International Film Festival
• Pennsylvania Film Festival
• Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
• Portland International Film Festival
• ResFest Digital Film Festival
• Rhode Island International Film Festival
• Saint Louis International Film Festival
• San Diego World Film Festival
• San Francisco IndieFest
• San Francisco International Film Festival
• Santa Barbara International Film Festival
• Santa Fe Film Festival
• Santa Monica Film Festival
• Savannah Film and Video Festival
• Seattle International Film Festival
• Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
• Slamdance International Film Festival
• Sonoma Valley Film Festival
• Sundance Film Festival
• Taos Talking Picture Festival
• Texas Film Festival
• Three Rivers Film Festival
• Toronto International Film Festival
• United Nations Association Film Festival
• Urban World Film Festival
• USA Film Festival
• Vermont International Film Festival
• Virginia Film Festival
• Waterfront Film Festival
• Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival
• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
• Zeitgeist International Film Festival

 

So don't even waste your time with someone's "vanity festival" or some rip-off screening event.