# Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection

Warner Bros.' library of Oscar-nominated cartoons were showcased in a DVD set released by Warner Home Video on February 12, 2008 that included their own Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, as well as Tom and Jerry, Droopy, and other classic MGM cartoons, together with entries from Max Fleischer's Popeye and Superman series (both originally released by Paramount Pictures). All cartoons selected for this release were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, with the exception of the film So Much for So Little, which won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. A total of 41 cartoons (completely uncut and unedited) were chosen for this set, 15 of them being Oscar winners.
Many of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts featured on this collection have also been released on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets, but this set includes a handful of others. The cartoons A Wild Hare and Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt, which were previously reissued as Blue Ribbons, have their full original titles restored, the latter having its original titles first restored on the 1995 Turner print. The cartoon From A to Z-Z-Z-Z, previously released as a Blue Ribbon but retaining its full slate of credits, is shown here in its original format. All the Tom and Jerry shorts have been previously released on the Spotlight Collections, but most of them here are presented restored and remastered, previous copies, as for Mouse Trouble and Quiet Please!, being poor transfers of Turner broadcast TV prints. Three MGM cartoons, Touché, Pussy Cat!, Good Will to Men, and One Droopy Knight, are presented in their original Cinemascope aspect ratios.
To this day, this is Warner's only DVD release of classic animation to feature a variety of different cartoon studios. Warner has also released each of the discs separately.

## Disc 1

All 15 cartoons on this disc won Academy Awards
| # | Title | Studio | Star(s) | Year | Director(s) |
| 1 | The Milky Way | MGM | | 1940 | Rudolf Ising |
| 2 | The Yankee Doodle Mouse | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1943 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 3 | Mouse Trouble | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1944 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 4 | Quiet Please! | MGM | Tom and Jerry, Spike | 1945 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 5 | The Cat Concerto | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1947 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 6 | Tweetie Pie | Warner Bros. | Sylvester, Tweety | 1947 | Friz Freleng |
| 7 | The Little Orphan | MGM | Tom and Jerry, Tuffy | 1949 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 8 | For Scent-imental Reasons | Warner Bros. | Pepé Le Pew, Penelope Pussycat | 1949 | Chuck Jones |
| 9 | So Much for So Little | Warner Bros. | | 1949 | Chuck Jones |
| 10 | The Two Mouseketeers | MGM | Tom and Jerry, Tuffy | 1952 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 11 | Johann Mouse | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1953 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 12 | Speedy Gonzales | Warner Bros. | Speedy Gonzales Sylvester | 1955 | Friz Freleng |
| 13 | Birds Anonymous | Warner Bros. | Sylvester, Tweety, Clarence Cat | 1957 | Friz Freleng |
| 14 | Knighty Knight Bugs | Warner Bros. | Bugs Bunny Yosemite Sam | 1958 | Friz Freleng |
| 15 | The Dot and the Line | MGM | | 1965 | Chuck Jones Maurice Noble (co-director) |

### Special Features
#### Audio Bonuses

* Music-only tracks
** Speedy Gonzales
** The Dot and the Line
* Audio Commentaries
** Mark Kausler on Quiet Please!
** Eric Goldberg on The Cat Concerto and The Dot and the Line
** Greg Ford on For Scent-imental Reasons
** Jerry Beck on So Much for So Little

## Disc 2

All 14 cartoons on this disc were nominated for Academy Awards, but did not win
| # | Title | Studio | Star(s) | Year | Director(s) |
| 1 | Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor | Fleischer Paramount | Popeye, Olive, Wimpy, Bluto | 1936 | Dave Fleischer |
| 2 | Peace on Earth | MGM | | 1939 | Hugh Harman |
| 3 | A Wild Hare* | Warner Bros. | Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd | 1940 | Tex Avery |
| 4 | Puss Gets the Boot | MGM | Jasper, Jinx | 1940 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 5 | Superman | Fleischer Paramount | Superman, Lois | 1941 | Dave Fleischer |
| 6 | Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt | Warner Bros. | Bugs Bunny, Hiawatha | 1941 | Friz Freleng |
| 7 | Rhapsody in Rivets | Warner Bros. | | 1941 | Friz Freleng |
| 8 | The Night Before Christmas | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1941 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 9 | Blitz Wolf | MGM | | 1942 | Tex Avery |
| 10 | Pigs in a Polka | Warner Bros. | | 1943 | Friz Freleng |
| 11 | Swooner Crooner | Warner Bros. | Porky Pig | 1944 | Frank Tashlin |
| 12 | Walky Talky Hawky | Warner Bros. | Foghorn Leghorn, Henery Hawk, Barnyard Dawg | 1946 | Robert McKimson |
| 13 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1947 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 14 | Mouse Wreckers | Warner Bros. | Hubie and Bertie, Claude Cat, Hector the Bulldog | 1949 | Chuck Jones |
(*): Original opening title card restored for this release, as the releases in The Golden Age of Looney Tunes and Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 borrowed the opening title card for A Gander at Mother Goose

### Special Features
#### Audio Bonuses

* Audio Commentaries
** Jerry Beck, Leslie Cabarga, Ray Pointer and Bob Jacques on Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
** Greg Ford on Peace on Earth and A Wild Hare
** Mark Kausler on Puss Gets the Boot
** Paul Dini on Superman
** Eric Goldberg on Blitz Wolf
** Jerry Beck on Walky Talky Hawky

## Disc 3

All 12 cartoons on this disc were nominated for Academy Awards, but did not win
| # | Title | Studio | Star(s) | Year | Director(s) |
| 1 | Hatch Up Your Troubles | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1949 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 2 | Jerry's Cousin | MGM | Tom and Jerry | 1951 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 3 | Little Johnny Jet | MGM | | 1953 | Tex Avery |
| 4 | Touché, Pussy Cat! | MGM | Tom and Jerry, Tuffy | 1954 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 5 | From A to Z-Z-Z-Z | Warner Bros. | Ralph Phillips | 1954 | Chuck Jones |
| 6 | Sandy Claws | Warner Bros. | Sylvester, Tweety, Granny | 1955 | Friz Freleng |
| 7 | Good Will to Men | MGM | | 1955 | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| 8 | Tabasco Road | Warner Bros. | Speedy Gonzales | 1957 | Robert McKimson |
| 9 | One Droopy Knight | MGM | Droopy, Butch Bulldog | 1957 | Michael Lah |
| 10 | High Note | Warner Bros. | | 1960 | Chuck Jones |
| 11 | Nelly's Folly | Warner Bros. | | 1961 | Chuck Jones Maurice Noble (co-director) Abe Levitow (co-director) |
| 12 | Now Hear This | Warner Bros. | | 1963 | Chuck Jones Maurice Noble (co-director) |

### Special Features
#### Audio Bonuses

* Music-only tracks
** Little Johnny Jet
** Touché, Pussy Cat!
** Tabasco Road
** One Droopy Knight
* Vocal Chorus section isolated audio track presented by Greg Ford
** Good Will to Men
* Audio Commentaries
** Amid Amidi on From A to Z-Z-Z-Z and Now Hear This

#### Bonus Cartoon

* What's Cookin' Doc? (USA Turner print)