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Tweetie Pie marks the first pairing of the characters Sylvester and Tweety, and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1947, [5] breaking Tom and Jerry ' s streak of four consecutive wins in the category and winning Warner Bros. their first Academy Award. [6]
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Academy Awards, now officially known as the Oscars, are a set of awards given annually for excellence of cinematic achievements by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Several Looney Tunes (and subsequently, Warner Bros.) shorts have earned numerous Oscars for their cartoons, most often for one-shot cartoons. The Academy Awards have be...
Winners
•"Tweetie Pie" (1947) •"For Scent-imental Reasons" (1949) •"So Much for So Little" (1949) •"Speedy Gonzales" (1955) •"Birds Anonymous" (1957) •"Knighty Knight Bugs" (1958)
Nominees
•"It's Got Me Again!" (1932) •"Detouring America" (1939) •"A Wild Hare" (1940) •"Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (1941) •"Rhapsody in Rivets" (1941) •"Pigs in a Polka" (1943) •"Greetings Bait" (1943) •"Swooner Crooner" (1944) •"Life with Feathers" (1945) •"Walky Talky Hawky" (1946) •"Mouse Wreckers" (1949) •"Canary Row" (1950) (nomination withdrawn) •"From A to Z-Z-Z-Z" (1954) •"Sandy Claws" (1955) •"Tabasco Road" (1957) •"Mexicali Shmoes" (1959) •"Mouse and Garden" (1960) •"High Note" (1960) •"The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" (1961) •"Beep Prepared" (1961) •"Nelly's Folly" (1961) •"Now Hear This" (1963)
Submitted, screened, but not nominated
•"September in the Rain" (1937) •"Cross Country Detours" (1940) •"You Ought to Be in Pictures" (1940) •"The Early Worm Gets the Bird" (1940) •"The Ducktators" (1942) •"Rhapsody Rabbit" (1946) •"Hop, Look and Listen" (1948) •"Buccaneer Bunny" (1948) •"Scaredy Cat" (1948) •"Ballot Box Bunny" (1951) •"Gift Wrapped" (1952) •"Little Beau Pepé" (1952) •"A Mouse Divided" (1953) •"Duck Amuck" (1953) •"Bewitched Bunny" (1954) •"Pizzicato Pussycat" (1955) •"Three Little Bops" (1957) •"What's Opera, Doc?" (1957) •"The Mouse That Jack Built" (1959) •"Banty Raids" (1963) •"The Wild Chase" (1965) •"Assault and Peppered" (1965) (submission withdrawn) •"Norman Normal" (1968) •"Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches)" (1968) •"Shamrock and Roll" (1969) •"Injun Trouble" (1969) •"Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century" (1980) •"Daffy Duck for President" (2004) •"Curse of the Monkey Bird" (2019)
•In the book The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, the short "The Egg Collector" is erroneously stated to have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in both the Sniffles character description and the Sniffles filmography (although the Academy Award appendix later in the book does not list the short).
•Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection
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Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng. The title is a play on the term of endearment "sweetie pie," and also a play on Tweety's own name Thomas captures Tweety, whom he finds outside in the snow, warming himself by a lit cigar.
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Feb 5, 2014 · Tweetie Pie NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more
The 28 Oscar-Nominated Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies - and many more. Thanks to NigelMorgendorffer for his thorough list of 1039 Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies, and J. Spurlin's FAQs about the Oscar nominees. When viewed in List Order, titles 1-28 are the Nominees. The 6 winners are so noted.
Selzer allowed Tweety to be used, and the resulting film went on to win WB's first Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) which Selzer accepted. After Selzer's death, the Oscar was passed on to Freleng.
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Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. It was the first cartoon to pair Tweety and Sylvester, and also the first Warner Bros. short to earn an Oscar for Best Animated Short.[4]
