Tom na Jerry ni washindi wa tuzo ya Oscars (Academy Award) kama mfululizo wa vikatuni bora vilivyokuwa vinatayarishwa na kampuni ya Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Hadithi inayosimuliwa ni mara kwa mara majaribio ya paka Tom kumshika panya Jerry bila kufaulu. Katuni nyingi za Tom na Jerry zilikuwa zinatengenezwa fupifupi. Tom na Jerry ilitungwa na kuongozwa na William Hanna na Joseph Barbera. Katuni laki moja na kumi na nne za Tom na Jerry zilitaarishwa na studio ya katuni iitwayo MGM iliyopo mjini Hollywood kuanzia mwaka 1940 hadi 1957, ambapo kitngo cha katuni katika MGM kilipofungwa. Makala kuu: Tom & Jerry (filamu ya 2021) Adams, T.R. (1991). Tom and Jerry: Fifty Years of Cat and Mouse. Crescent Books. ISBN 0-517-05688-7. Barrier, Michael (1999). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503759-6. Maltin, Leonard (1980, updated 1987). Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-452-25993-2.