Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Winners (1931-2020/21)

[Ed Gordon]

How many of these Oscar 'Best Animated Short' winners from the past 92 years have you seen? Which ones do you own on film or digital?

Here is a compilation of clips from the past winners:

[Osi Osgood]

Far less than I'd like. One animated winner that I wish had been released on Super 8 was "The Man Who Planted Trees", a pencil animated 25 minute masterpiece! As for me, mostly Disney's and Tom and Jerry's.

[Melvin England]

An excellent compilation which would make a great future release on super 8 don't you think ?

I found it interesting to observe how many films from pre 1960 have been released on super 8 in relation to post 1960. I also did not realize how many Tom & Jerry cartoons won the award. It just shows the overall quality of those cat and mouse capers !

[Ed Gordon]

An excellent compilation which would make a great future release on super 8 don't you think ?

I found it interesting to observe how many films from pre 1960 have been released on super 8 in relation to post 1960. I also did not realize how many Tom & Jerry cartoons won the award. It just shows the overall quality of those cat and mouse capers !

I had the same thoughts while watching it Melvin. It certainly is a good candidate for a Super 8 release. I looked at Super8Database and I see a lot of these shorts did get a Super 8 release. There are 79 Super 8 releases in the "Academy Award" section (https://super8database.com/tags/Acad...Award%20Winner), but that includes cut downs and extracts of features.

[Brian Fretwell]

I heard that the Tom & Jerry Cat Concetro won the year the Bugs Bunny Rhapsody Rabbit was entered but due to the rushes for that being sent to MGM rather than Warner they managed to get the T&J finished and released first so that the Acadamy committee thought Bugs' one was a copy of the Jom & Jerry so Cat Concerto won the vote.

[Osi Osgood]

Both cartoons are great in they're own way, but I do think that Cat Concerto was just slightly better. BTW, I think part of the problem with finding post 1960 Academy Award winners, is that, in large part, the winners were more often than not, individual animation companies, where the pre 1960 Academy Award winners, were animation studios that existed within the studio system, and as studios opened up they're films for release on super 8, the cartoons released "under they're umbrella", would get released as well! Ironically, most of the studios realized that, dollar for dollar, they actually have made more money off of they're animated films, than they're feature films ever have, which is ironic, in that, the animated cartoons were just looked at as " filler" for a night at the movies.

[Graham Ritchie]

Just watched it and ticked of 16 of them I have on Super 8, starting with the "Flowers and the Trees" the last being The Chubb Chubbs All have excellent color and sound. Most of them are the early films not so much during the 1960s, but coming back later with "For The Birds". "Toot Whistle and Boom" is the only Scope one I have. Also the full length of Winnie the Poo and a Blustery Day, I think that was 1968, that was another stunning print from Derann.

[Ed Gordon]

Just watched it and ticked of 16 of them I have on Super 8, starting with the "Flowers and the Trees" the last being The Chubb Chubbs ...

You are ahead of me. I only have 7 of them, all of those being digital. Chubb Chubbs is a favorite of mine. I do have other Oscar winning shorts, but they are not animated...

[Osi Osgood]

I forgot about "Toot, Whistle, Plunk, Boom", but my copy isn't the scope version. Disney, like MGM, released both scope and flat versions to the theaters, and the photographic effects were just a little different between the two.

[Eivind Mork]

I had the same thoughts while watching it Melvin. It certainly is a good candidate for a Super 8 release. I looked at Super8Database and I see a lot of these shorts did get a Super 8 release. There are 79 Super 8 releases in the "Academy Award" section (https://super8database.com/tags/Acad...Award%20Winner), but that includes cut downs and extracts of features.

You can combine tag searches to narrow it down by searching for: tag:"Academy Award Winner" tag:short
https://super8database.com/?q=tag%3A...3Ashort&page=1

[Brian Fretwell]

I only see two films when using that link!!