![]() ![]() ![]() Warner Bros.'s Looney Tunes/ Merrie Melodies series also had a big amount of 16 Oscar nominations and winning 5. MGM's Tom and Jerry (1940–67) is the category's most lauded animated series over all, being nominated for a total of 13 Oscars and winning 7. The first film to win in this category was Flowers and Trees by Walt Disney, who has since held the category's record for most nominations (39) and most wins (12). (The first non-English-language international short to win was Zagreb Film's Ersatz (The Substitute) in 1961.) Only American films were nominated for the award until the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) won with The Romance of Transportation in Canada in 1952. Current Academy rules, however, call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film." Moreover, "n the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded." During the first 5 decades of the award's existence, awards were presented to the producers of the shorts. The present title began with the 46th Awards in 1974. The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1931–32, to the present.įrom 1932 until 1970, the category was known as Short Subjects, Cartoons and from 1971 to 1973 as Short Subjects, Animated Films. ![]()
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