9

2005 animated short film by Shane Acker

Instance of: animated short film

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

9 is a 2005 animated science fiction short film created by Shane Acker as a student project at the UCLA Animation Workshop. Tim Burton saw the film and later produced a feature-length adaptation also titled 9 (2009), directed by Acker and distributed by Focus Features. The film was presented at the Indianapolis International Film Festival. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and won a Student Academy Award for Best Animation. It was released on April 21, 2005.

Overview

All data

39 statements · 10% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Director: Shane Acker
Screenwriter: Shane Acker
Production company: University of California, Los Angeles
Released: April 21, 2005
Country of origin: United States
Runtime: 11 min
Original language: English
Producer: Shane Acker
Color: color
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film(January 31, 2006) nominee: Shane Acker · statement is subject of: 78th Academy Awards
Genre: post-apocalyptic film
drama film
thriller film
fantasy film
Title: 9
Derivative work: 9
Different from: 9
Fabrication method: computer animation

Data quality

statements

10%

externally sourced

Source last edited August 22, 2026. AIDB refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q277435

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDB. (2026). 9 (Q277435). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/9-Q277435