On May 2, the Herb Alpert Foundation announced the 30th annual winners of the 2024 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, a $75,000 prize given to ten mid-career artists.
From its earliest honorees to the present, the Academy Award for Best Animated Short doubles as a kind of history of the ever-changing medium. We ranked them all from animation’s golden age to the arrival of Pixar and beyond.