Academy Juvenile Award
List of honorees
Notes This list of honorees indicates the ages of the recipients at the time of the awards ceremony (not at the time of filming the movie for which they were being honored).

Academy Juvenile Award

Section Title: List of honorees
Table Section Text: Notes This list of honorees indicates the ages of the recipients at the time of the awards ceremony (not at the time of filming the movie for which they were being honored).

Honorees of the Academy Juvenile Award 1934 – 1960

Year	Ceremony	Name	Age	Honor

1934	7th	Shirley Temple	6 years, 310 days	To Shirley Temple, in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934.

1938	11th	Deanna Durbin	17 years, 81 days	To Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney for their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement.

1938	11th	Mickey Rooney	18 years, 153 days	To Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney for their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement.

1939	12th	Judy Garland	17 years, 264 days	To Judy Garland for her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year.

1944	17th	Margaret O'Brien	8 years, 59 days	To Margaret O'Brien, outstanding child actress of 1944.

1945	18th	Peggy Ann Garner	14 years, 32 days	To Peggy Ann Garner, outstanding child actress of 1945.

1946	19th	Claude Jarman, Jr.	12 years, 167 days	To Claude Jarman, Jr., outstanding child actor of 1946.

1948	21st	Ivan Jandl	12 years, 59 days	To Ivan Jandl, for the outstanding juvenile performance of 1948, as "Karel Malik" in The Search.

1949	22nd	Bobby Driscoll	13 years, 20 days	To Bobby Driscoll, as the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949.

1954	27th	Jon Whiteley	10 years, 39 days	To Jon Whiteley for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers.

1954	27th	Vincent Winter	7 years, 91 days	To Vincent Winter for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers.

1960	33rd	Hayley Mills	14 years, 364 days	To Hayley Mills for Pollyanna, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960.

10 Years	10 Ceremonies	12 Honorees	13 Average Age	Column Totals

Sentence(s)

The 21st Academy Awards recognized Ivan Jandl with the Juvenile Award honoring him for "the outstanding juvenile performance of 1948, as 'Karel Malik' in "The Search".

final_sentence: The 21st Academy Awards recognized Ivan Jandl with the Juvenile Award honoring him for "the outstanding juvenile performance of 1948, as 'Karel Malik' in "The Search".