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.
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)
- 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
- Swooner Crooner
- Walky Talky Hawky (with commentary by Jerry Beck)
- Pigs in a Polka**
Disc 3
- Mouse Wreckers
- 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)
- Nelly's Folly
- Now Hear This (with commentary by Amid Amidi)
- High Note
Bonus
- What's Cookin' Doc? (1995 USA Turner print added as a bonus)
(**): In the public domain in the United States