Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1955
If you weren’t Famous Studios or (surprise!) UPA you were not nominated this year. Everyone else: Nominated!
If you weren’t Famous Studios or (surprise!) UPA you were not nominated this year. Everyone else: Nominated!
Once again an overload of Paramount submissions, two really good Warner Bros. cartoons, a visually spectacular Donald Duck and an independent film from John Wilson.
We continue our research into what cartoons were submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration – but failed to make the cut.
By the early 1960’s, theatrical Hollywood cartoons still found occasional inspiration in the idea of the game show–which was gong through its own crisis at the time.
Imagine you are attending the preliminary screenings for the 1952 cartoon short Oscar nominations – watching everything from Little Audrey to Norman McLaren.
Paramount Pictures closed its cartoon studio in December 1967. The studio’s last cartoons were distributed well into 1968, and most of them came and went without any notice in newspapers.
This is the second of a series of posts that look at the animated shorts submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration but didn’t make the cut.
This is the first in a new series articles I plan to regularly post that dives an little deeper into the history of the Academy Award For Best Animated Short Subject.
This week a post-script to the series I’d been placing in this space since June – an attempt to list what animated films Paramount Pictures released since closing their in-house studio in 1967.
This week: Rare behind-the-scenes footage filmed during the production of a Snafu cartoon!