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Academy Award Nominees & Winners

Only 6 classic Warner Bros. cartoons have won an Academy Award and these are not even representative of the best animation by the studio. In fact, none of the winners are among the 19 Warner Bros. cartoons included in The 50 Greatest Cartoons Of All Time. Listed below are all the classic Warner Bros. cartoons nominated for the Academy Award, with winners in bold. Cartoons are also broken down by director.
"Beep Prepared"-Jones/1961
"Birds Anonymous"(winner)-Freleng/1957
"Detouring America"-Avery/1939
"For Scentimental Reasons"(winner)-Jones/1949
"From A to Z-z-z-z"-Jones/1954
"Greetings Bait"-Freleng/1943
"Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt"-Freleng/1941
"High Note"-Jones/1960
"Hollywood Steps Out"-Avery/1941
"It's Got Me Again"-no director credits/1932
"Knighty Knight Bugs"(winner)-Freleng/1958
"Life With Feathers"-Freleng/1945
"Mexicali Shmoes"-Freleng/1959
"Mouse And Garden"-Freleng/1960
"Mouse Wreckers"-Jones/1949
"Nelly's Folly"-Jones/Levitow/Noble/1961
"Now Hear This"-Jones/1963
"The Pied Piper of Guadelupe"-Freleng/1961
"Pigs In A Polka"-Freleng/1943
"Rhapsody In Rivets"-Freleng/
"Sandy Claws"-Freleng/1955
"So Much For So Little"(winner)-Jones/1949
"Speedy Gonzales"(winner)-Freleng/1955
"Swooner Crooner"-Tashlin/1944
"Tabasco Road"-McKimson/1957
"Tweety Pie"(winner)-Freleng/1947
"Walky Talky Hawky"-McKimson/1946
"A Wild Hare"-Avery/1940
FOR THE RECORD:
Isadore (Friz) Freleng-----13 nominations, 4 wins
Charles M. (Chuck) Jones-----8 nomiations, 2 wins
Tex Avery-----3 nominations, 0 wins
Robert McKimson-----2 nominations, 0 wins
Frank Tashlin-----1 nomination, 0 wins
Maurice Noble-----1 nomination, 0 wins
Abe Levitow-----1 nomination, 0 wins
Norman McCabe-----0 nominations, 0 wins
Robert Clampett-----0 nominations, 0 wins
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Last updated on 4/23/2001