Oscar's Shorts... They're Animated! Nominees 1931-39

1931/32 - 1939
Short Subject - Animation
Academy Award Nominees and Recipients

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1931/32

5^th Annual

Flowers and Trees
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / United Artist
            Burt Gillett
                Silly Symphonies
                    USA
The first animated short in full color.
The first film to use the Technicolor process.
Silly Symphonies

It's Got Me Again!
    Leon Schlesinger
        Leon Schlesinger Studios / Warner Bros.
            Rudolf Ising
                Merrie Melodies
                    USA

Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3

Mickey's Orphans
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / United Artists
            Burt Gillett
                Mickey Mouse
                    USA

Mickey Mouse in Black and White

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1932/33

6^th Annual

Building A Building
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / United Artists
            David Hand
                Mickey Mouse
                    USA

Mickey Mouse in Black and White

Merry Old Soul
    Walter Lantz
        Walter Lantz Productions / Universal Pictures
            Walter Lantz
                Oswald The Rabbit
                    USA

The Three Little Pigs
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / United Artists
            Burt Gillett
                Silly Symphonies
                    USA
Features the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
Silly Symphonies

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1934	7^th Annual

Holiday Land
    Charles Mintz
        Screen Gems / Columbia
                Color Rhapsody
                    USA
Jolly Little Elves
    Walter Lantz
        Walter Lantz Productions / Universal Pictures
                Cartune Classics
                    USA

The Tortoise and the Hare
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / United Artists
            Wilfred Jackson
                Silly Symphonies
                    USA
Based on Aesop's Fable.
Silly Symphonies
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1935	8^th Annual

The Calico Dragon
    Harman - Ising
        MGM
            Rudolf Ising
                Happy Harmonies
                    USA
Three Orphan Kittens
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / United Artists
            David Hand
                Silly Symphonies
                    USA

Who Killed Cock Robin?
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / United Artists
            David Hand
                Silly Symphonies
                    USA
Silly Symphonies
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1936	9^th Annual

The Country Cousin
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures
            David Hand
                Silly Symphonies
                    USA
Silly Symphonies
The Old Mill Pond
    Harman - Ising
        MGM
            Hugh Harman
                Happy Harmonies
                    USA
Caricatures of Cab Calloway, Bill Robinson and Fats Waller.
Popeye Meets Sinbad
    Paramount Pictures
        Fleischer Studios
            Dave Fleischer
                Popeye
                    USA
Popeye
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1937	10^th Annual

Educated Fish
    Paramount Pictures
        Fleischer Studios
            Dave Fleischer
                Color Classic
                    USA

Somewhere in Dreamland

The Little Match Girl
    Charles Mintz
        Screen Gems / Columbia
            Art Davis
                Color Rhapsody
                    USA
Based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen.

The Old Mill
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures
            Wilfred Jackson
                Silly Symphonies
                    USA
This film was the first made using the multiplane camera.
Silly Symphonies

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1938	11^th Annual

The Brave Little Tailor
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions
            Burt Gillett / RKO Radio Pictures
                Mickey Mouse
                    USA
Sword in the Stone
Ferdinand The Bull
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures
            Dick Rickard
                    USA
Based on the story by Munro Leaf.
Disney Rarities

Good Scouts
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures
            Jack King
                Donald Duck
                    USA

Chronological Donald Volume One

Hunky and Spunky
    Paramount Pictures
        Fleischer Studios
            Dave Fleischer
                Color Classic
                    USA
Somewhere in Dreamland
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures
            Wilfred Jackson
                Silly Symphonies
                    USA

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1939	12^th Annual

Detouring America
    Warner Bros.
        Leon Schlesinger Studios
            Tex Avery
                Merrie Melodies
                    USA
The first nomination of a Tex Avery directed short.
Peace On Earth
    MGM
        MGM
            Hugh Harman
                    USA

A Christmas Carol (1938)
The Pointer
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures
            Clyde Geronimi
                Mickey Mouse
                    USA

Mickey Mouse in Living Color Volume 2

The Ugly Duckling
    Walt Disney
        Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures
            Jack Cutting
                Silly Symphonies
                    USA
Based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen.
Silly Symphonies
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