Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection is a collection of animated shorts from Warner Bros., MGM, and Paramount Pictures that have won or have been nominated for an Oscar. The DVD was released on February 12, 2008.

The DVD contained three discs, one dedicated for the Oscar winners, while the other two dedicated to the Oscar nominees. Aside from the 3-disc DVD set aimed at collectors, separately-released individual single-disc versions of this DVD set are also available.

All the cartoons released on this set, except the "What's Cookin' Doc?" bonus, are restored from their original negatives or in the case of the pre-1951 MGM cartoons, their backup negatives.

Featured Nominees[]

This list does not include the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or Paramount cartoons. To see the MGM cartoons included on this set, see here.

Disc 1[]

Tweetie Pie
For Scent-imental Reasons (with commentary by Greg Ford)
So Much for So Little (with commentary by Jerry Beck)
Speedy Gonzales (with an optional music-only audio track)
Birds Anonymous
Knighty Knight Bugs

Disc 2[]

A Wild Hare (with commentary by Greg Ford) (actual, original opening Color Rings restored)
Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (original closing restored)
Rhapsody in Rivets
Pigs in a Polka**
Swooner Crooner
Walky Talky Hawky (with commentary by Jerry Beck)
Mouse Wreckers

Disc 3[]

From A to Z-Z-Z-Z (with commentary by Amid Amidi) (original opening and end titles restored)
Sandy Claws
Tabasco Road (with an optional music-only audio track)
High Note
Nelly's Folly
Now Hear This (with commentary by Amid Amidi)

Bonus[]

What's Cookin' Doc? (1995 USA Turner print)

(**): In the public domain in the United States

Omitted Nominees[]

Although all the five Oscar-winning Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts and most of the Oscar-nominated Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts are included in this DVD set, there are a few Oscar-nominated Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts which were not included. An asterisk symbol (*) indicates that the omitted Oscar nominee has not yet been remastered and restored for DVD/Blu-Ray.

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