Parade of the Award Nominees
Parade of the Award Nominees is a Mickey Mouse short which was made for the 1932 banquet for the 5th Academy Awards, featuring Mickey Mouse and his friends leading a parade of caricatured Hollywood stars. The short is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon produced in Technicolor, two years before "The Band Concert". United Artists had recently agreed to present fund the production of Disney's "Silly Symphony" shorts in color, and producers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney hoped that presenting Mickey Mouse in color at this prestigious occasion would help to convince UA to  bring color to the "Mickey Mouse" series as well. Plot. The short features Mickey Mouse leading a parade of caricatured nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress. He is assisted by Minnie Mouse, Clarabelle Cow, and various anthropomorphic animals and insects as musicians and pages. The nominees in order of appearance were: Pluto rounds up the procession that reads "THE END". Home media. The short was released on December 4, 2001, on "".