MUMBAI: The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has announced that ten live-action short films have been shortlist among seventy one films that qualified in the category.

Nominees will be announced on 2 February in the run-up to the 82nd Academy Awards on 7 March.

The ten films in alphabetical order are: The Door; The Ground Beneath; Hotel; Instead Of Abracadabra; Kavi; Miracle Fish; The New Tenants; The Response; Short Term 12; and Sidney Turtlebau.