BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Oscar-winning animator Chris Landreth is among several Canadian-based filmmakers being considered for an Oscar nomination in the animated shorts category.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says 10 films will advance to the voting process for the 86th Academy Awards. Fifty-six pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The short list includes Landreth’s 11-minute “Subconscious Password,” which imagines what goes on inside the mind when it goes searching for information.

There’s also the war critique “Gloria Victoria,” by National Film Board of Canada director Theodore Ushev, and “Requiem for Romance,” by Toronto-born, Montreal-based filmmaker Jonathan Ng.

Vancouver-based Irish animator Eoin Duffy also makes the cut with the colourful short “The Missing Scarf” while the NFB is listed as a co-producer on “Hollow Land,” along with Denmark’s Dansk Tegnefilm and France’s Les Films de l’Arlequin.

Select academy members will now choose three to five nominees from the 10 titles on the short list. The nominations will be announced Jan. 16, 2014. The awards bash takes place March 2, 2014.

Landreth previously won an Oscar for his 2004 animated short “Ryan.”

Others making it further into the Oscar race include “Room on the Broom,” by Magic Light Pictures directors Max Lang and Jan Lachauer; “Feral,” directed by Daniel Sousa; “Get a Horse!” directed by Walt Disney Feature Animation’s Lauren MacMullan; “Mr. Hublot,” directed by Laurent Witz of Zeilt Productions; and “Possessions,” directed by Shuhei Morita of Sunrise Inc.