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 Academy Award. The DVD was released 12 February 2008.
The DVD contained three discs, one dedicated for the Oscar winners, while the other two dedicated to the Oscar nominees. Aside from the three-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. The Popeye and Superman cartoons have their original Paramount titles restored.
Looney Cartoons[]
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" (original titles restored; with commentary by Greg Ford)
- "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (original titles 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" (original color rings restored; with commentary by Amid Amidi)
- "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 dubbed version)
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. The omitted Oscar nominees were either previously or later released restored on the following collections, unless not listed.
- "It's Got Me Again!"
- "Detouring America"
- "Greetings Bait" (later released on Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 2)
- "Life with Feathers" (later released on Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3)
- "Canary Row" (previously released on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1)
- "Mexicali Shmoes" (previously released on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4)
- "Mouse and Garden" (previously released on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4)
- "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" (previously released on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4)
- "Beep Prepared" (later released on Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3)