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140
7.1
7.3
(1931-1932) 
An evil tree stump, jealous of two trees in love, starts a forest fire.
Nominees:
▪ Mickey's Orphans
▪ It's Got Me Again!
An evil tree stump, jealous of two trees in love, starts a forest fire.
Nominees:
▪ Mickey's Orphans
▪ It's Got Me Again!
237
6.9
7.5
(1933-1934) 
Three pigs set off to set up housekeeping, and learn to deal with life and wolves.
Nominees:
▪ Building a Building
▪ The Merry Old Soul
Three pigs set off to set up housekeeping, and learn to deal with life and wolves.
Nominees:
▪ Building a Building
▪ The Merry Old Soul
137
6.8
7.2
A retelling of Aesop's fable where the hare learns that slow and steady wins the race.
Nominees:
▪ Holiday Land
▪ Jolly Little Elves
65
7.2
6.9
Three Orphan Kittens (1935)
Three kittens are heartlessly abandoned during a snowstorm. They try to take refuge in a nearby house and playfully begin to tear the house apart.
Nominees:
▪ The Calico Dragon
▪ Who Killed Cock Robin?
51
6.4
7
Abner is invited by his cousin Monty to leave Podunk behind and move to the big city. But he soon learns that the hidden dangers of big city life are not all they are cracked up to be.
Nominees:
▪ Old Mill Pond
▪ Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
120
7.9
7.8
A triumph of mood over plot, the short shows the inhabitants of an ancient, abandoned mill preparing for nightfall and an approaching storm.
Nominees:
▪ Educated Fish
▪ The Little Match Girl
84
7
7.2
Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
Ferdinand is a quiet, peaceful young bull who only wants to stop and smell the flowers. But, when he is stung by a bee, the townspeople believe he is ferocious and take him to the bullfight ring.
Nominees:
▪ Brave Little Tailor
▪ Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
▪ Good Scouts
▪ Hunky and Spunky
112
7.6
7.6
A remake of an earlier Silly Symphony retells the story of an outcast duckling who turns out to become a beautiful swan.
Nominees:
▪ Detouring America
▪ Peace on Earth
▪ The Pointer
22
6.8
6.6
The Milky Way (1940)
Three kittens, denied milk as punishment for misbehaving, sail up into the Milky Way in a hot air balloon. Once in the Milky Way, they find it a land of natural milk springs and gushers.
Nominees:
▪ Puss Gets the Boot
▪ A Wild Hare
58
7.3
7
Lend a Paw (1941)
Pluto's conscience becomes the battleground when he saves a small kitten from drowning and then has second thoughts when Mickey welcomes it into his home.
Nominees:
▪ Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B
▪ Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
▪ How War Came
▪ The Night Before Christmas
▪ Rhapsody in Rivets
▪ The Rookie Bear
▪ Rhythm in the Ranks
▪ Superman
▪ Truant Officer Donald
224
7.1
7.5
Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)
Donald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime.
Nominees:
▪ All Out for 'V'
▪ Blitz Wolf
▪ Juke Box Jamboree
▪ Pigs in a Polka
▪ Tulips Shall Grow
35
6.8
7.8
Per custom, Tom and Jerry wage war against each other, this time primarily with fireworks.
Nominees:
▪ The Dizzy Acrobat
▪ 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
▪ Greetings, Bait
▪ Imagination
▪ Reason and Emotion
37
7.6
8
Mouse Trouble (1944)
Tom receives a how-to book on mouse-catching, but all of its recommended tactics prove ineffective against the eager-to-outwit Jerry.
Nominees:
▪ And to Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street
▪ Dog, Cat and Canary
▪ Fish Fry
▪ How to Play Football
▪ My Boy, Johnny
▪ Swooner Crooner
35
7.1
7.8
Quiet Please! (1945)
Tom and Jerry's usual cat and mouse antics are complicated by the presence of a testy bulldog, whom Tom is careful not to disturb.
Nominees:
▪ Donald's Crime
▪ Jasper and the Beanstalk
▪ Life with Feathers
▪ Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life
▪ The Poet and Peasant
▪ Rippling Romance
116
7.5
8.2
The Cat Concerto (1947)
Jerry intrudes upon Tom's fancy piano concert and both of them wind up getting quite the musical workout.
Nominees:
▪ Musical Moments from Chopin
▪ John Henry and the Inky-Poo
▪ Squatter's Rights
▪ Walky Talky Hawky
34
7
7.1
In this first pairing of Tweety Bird and Sylvester, the black cat (called Thomas here) tries to terrorize the yellow bird after he's brought into the cat's home. Tweety stays one step ahead.
Nominees:
▪ Chip an' Dale
▪ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse
▪ Pluto's Blue Note
▪ Tubby the Tuba
49
7.2
7.8
The Little Orphan (1949)
A tiny but hungry orphan named Nibbles shows up as Jerry's guest for Thanksgiving. The two sample the abundant table offerings while trying to steer clear of Tom.
Nominees:
▪ Mickey and the Seal
▪ Mouse Wreckers
▪ Robin Hoodlum
▪ Tea for Two Hundred
79
7.5
7.3
For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)
The black feline enlisted to rid a perfume shop of the odoriferous Pepe Le Pew must put up with the suave, self-confident skunk's romantic advances.
Nominees:
▪ Hatch Up Your Troubles
▪ Magic Fluke
▪ Toy Tinkers
51
7.2
7.1
A little boy, Gerald McCloy, discovers at the age of two, that he can say 'boing -boing' and nothing else. He runs away from school and is found by a radio executive, who makes him world famous.
Nominees:
▪ Jerry's Cousin
▪ Trouble Indemnity
46
7.1
7.5
The Two Mouseketeers (1951)
In France, Jerry and younger mouse Nibbles (later Tuffy) help themselves to a royal banquet. They find opposition in defensive guard Tom.
Nominees:
▪ Lambert the Sheepish Lion
▪ Rooty Toot Toot
24
7.2
7.5
Johann Mouse (1952)
Jerry is Johann Mouse, a wall resident who waltzes in the home of famous musician Johann Strauss. When Strauss is away, his cat (Tom) learns to play piano, only to help his ongoing efforts to catch the mouse.
Nominees:
▪ Little Johnny Jet
▪ Madeline
▪ Pink and Blue Blues
▪ The Romance of Transportation in Canada
37
6.9
7.2
A History of music through the ages, from prehistoric man to the modern symphony orchestra.
Nominees:
▪ Christopher Crumpet
▪ From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
▪ Rugged Bear
▪ The Tell-Tale Heart
15
7.1
0
Mr Magoo mistakenly boards an airliner in the belief that he is attending a movie. Instead of a film he sees a real detective mystery.
Nominees:
▪ Crazy Mixed Up Pup
▪ Pigs Is Pigs
▪ Sandy Claws
▪ Touché, Pussy Cat!
63
6.9
7.2
Mexican mice enlist Speedy Gonzales to sneak across the American border and secure cheese for them. His fast forays outwit and irritate Sylvester, the cat who's patrolling the international divide.
Nominees:
▪ Good Will to Men
▪ The Legend of Rockabye Point
▪ No Hunting
10
5.9
5.4
Magoo's Puddle Jumper (1956)
Mr. Magoo has an underwater journey with his old car, confuses sharks with Cadil lacs but regains the surface undisturbed.
Nominees:
▪ Gerald McBoing-Boing on Planet Moo
▪ The Jaywalker
53
7.7
7.6
At another cat's urging, Sylvester attends a meeting of the support group Birds Anonymous, only to find that kicking the habit isn't so easy with Tweety always around.
Nominees:
▪ One Droopy Knight
▪ Tabasco Road
▪ Trees and Jamaica Daddy
▪ The Truth About Mother Goose
39
6.9
7.5
At King Arthur's order, Round Table jester Bugs Bunny reclaims the fabled singing sword from the Black Knight (Yosemite Sam). But Sam isn't going to let it go without a fight.
Nominees:
▪ Paul Bunyan
▪ Sidney's Family Tree
21
3.8
0
Two boys' adventure with a Moonbird in the middle of night.
Nominees:
▪ Mexicali Shmoes
▪ Noah's Ark
▪ The Violinist
17
6.9
6.9
Munro (1961)
A four-year-old boy is drafted into the army.
Nominees:
▪ Goliath II
▪ High Note
▪ Mouse and Garden
▪ A Place in the Sun
35
6
7.2
Simple story about the man who comes to the beach and uses inflatable objects for all of his needs.
Nominees:
▪ Aquamania
▪ Beep Prepared
▪ Nelly's Folly
▪ The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
15
5.3
6.2
The Hole (1962) (1962)
Two construction workers discuss about the possibility of accidents and their consequences, leading to the necessity of disarmament to prevent a super-accidental disaster.
Nominees:
▪ Icarus Montgolfier Wright
▪ Now Hear This
▪ Self Defense ... for Cowards
▪ Symposium on Popular Songs
30
7.6
6.8
The Critic (1963)
Short satire on audience reactions to 'art' films.
Nominees:
▪ Automania 2000
▪ The Game
▪ My Financial Career
▪ Pianissimo
82
7.4
7.6
The Pink Phink (1964)
A house painter can't understand why everything he paints blue turns pink. Little does he guess that the Pink Panther is repainting all his work.
Nominees:
▪ Christmas Cracker
▪ How to Avoid Friendship
▪ Nudnik No. 2
51
7.1
7.7
A simple line attempts to woo his true love, a dot, away from the unkempt squiggle she prefers. But he'll have to learn to bend before she'll notice him.
Nominees:
▪ Clay or the Origin of Species
▪ The Thieving Magpie
10
5.6
5.4
A prototype of modern music videos, this is an animated film set to the music of two popular tunes recorded by Herb Alpert and his Latin-flavored brass ensemble.
Nominees:
▪ The Drag
▪ The Pink Blueprint
8
6
6
The Box (1967)
An old bearded man wearing a raincoat walks into a bar and sits down, placing a mysterious box next to him.
Nominees:
▪ Hypothese Beta
▪ What on Earth!
109
7.6
8
Winnie the Pooh and his friends experience high winds, heavy rains, and a flood in Hundred Acre Wood
Nominees:
▪ The House That Jack Built
▪ The Magic Pear Tree
▪ Windy Day
Nominees:
▪ The House That Jack Built
▪ The Magic Pear Tree
▪ Windy Day
12
6.9
0
Part cartoon and part documentary, this film offers a humorous look at birds and the ways people perceive them.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Nominees:
▪ Of Men and Demons
▪ Walking
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3Nominees:
▪ Of Men and Demons
▪ Walking
13
7
6.3
The world is divided into factions, on opposite sides of issues; each side is, of course, right. And so the gap between the people grows, until someone challenges the absolutist view of what's "right."
Nominees:
▪ The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam: Part Two
▪ The Shepherd
13
5.4
5.4
The Crunch Bird (1971)
A woman buys a pet bird for her husband, who has a negative attitude about everything.
Nominees:
▪ Evolution
▪ The Selfish Giant
17
4.6
6
Frank Film (1973)
Satire about contemporary middle-class life in America. Intended for upper secondary and further education.
Nominees:
▪ The Legend of John Henry
▪ Pulcinella
20
6.3
6.4
Closed Mondays (1974)
A man visiting a museum sees the works of art come to life.
Nominees:
▪ The Family That Dwelt Apart
▪ Hunger
▪ Voyage to Next
▪ Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
9
6.9
6.6
Great (1975) (1975)
Animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century.
Nominees:
▪ Kick Me
▪ Monsieur Pointu
▪ Sisyphus
Nominees:
▪ Kick Me
▪ Monsieur Pointu
▪ Sisyphus
8
5.8
6
Leisure (1976)
Animated film emphasising the use of leisure time as an important aspect of life in modern society.
Nominees:
▪ Dedalo
▪ The Street
29
6.9
7.1
The Sand Castle (1977)
On a sandy desert, a man made of sand constructs other sand creatures to help make a beautiful sand castle for themselves.
Nominees:
▪ The Bead Game
▪ A Doonesbury Special
▪ Jimmy the C
18
6.3
0
Black comedy about the aftermath of the death of a mailman who slips on the icy steps which a wife has asked her husband to sweep.
Nominees:
▪ Oh My Darling
▪ Rip Van Winkle
22
6.1
6.5
Every Child (1979)
An abandoned baby is repeatedly left on a series of doorsteps in a well to do community, only to be rejected by each in turn until the infant arrives at the one social group that shows any concern and compassion.
Nominees:
▪ Dream Doll
▪ It's so Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House
120
7.4
7.5
The Fly (1981) (1980)
A fine day in the life of a fly presented completely from the fly's point of view. A fine day until something dreary happens, that is.
Nominees:
▪ All Nothing
▪ History of the World in Three Minutes Flat
41
7.3
7.4
The industrialization of Montreal, as seen from the point of view of a rocking-chair.
Nominees:
▪ The Creation
▪ The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin
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