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. "WBHEAAAC" stands for the 3-DVD set Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection - 15 Winners, 26 Nominees. Only 19 of the nominated Warner 'toons appear, plus a bonus 'toon: What's Cookin' Doc?
The hundreds of titles beginning at 29 are those on DVD, included mostly to give the list more visibility (and to assemble my collection in 1 list.)
When you see the comment "GC #.#", think "Golden Collection" with the first number indicating volume, the second is the disc within the volume. For "PC #.#", these refer to the Platinum Collection on Blu-Ray.
If anyone knows if Life with Feathers is included on some DVD other than Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 3, please comment below.
When viewed in List Order, titles 1-28 are the Nominees. The 6 winners are so noted. "WBHEAAAC" stands for the 3-DVD set Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection - 15 Winners, 26 Nominees. Only 19 of the nominated Warner 'toons appear, plus a bonus 'toon: What's Cookin' Doc?
The hundreds of titles beginning at 29 are those on DVD, included mostly to give the list more visibility (and to assemble my collection in 1 list.)
When you see the comment "GC #.#", think "Golden Collection" with the first number indicating volume, the second is the disc within the volume. For "PC #.#", these refer to the Platinum Collection on Blu-Ray.
If anyone knows if Life with Feathers is included on some DVD other than Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 3, please comment below.
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- DirectorRudolf IsingStarsThe RhythmettesLate at night, the mice come out and sing and play to the title tune, among others. That is, until the cat arrives, but he's quickly sent packing.+ Nominated +
Director: Rudolf Ising
Golden Collection 3.2 - DirectorTex AveryStarsMel BlancRobert C. BruceThis travelogue across America is filled with sight gags such as the 'Old Reliable' geyser spitting into a spittoon, cliff-dwelling Indians who walk horizontally up and down the faces of cliffs to get to their homes, and a Texas cow puncher who really punches cows. Also featured is Mr. Butter Fingers, a 'human fly' who climbs the outside of the Empire State Building.+ Nominated +
Director: Tex Avery
Writer: Jack Miller
Each Dawn I Die (1939) - DirectorTex AveryStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanWhile hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.+ Nominated +
Director: Tex Avery
Writer: Rich Hogan
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 3.2, as part of What's Up Doc? A Salute to Bugs Bunny (1990)
Golden Collection 4.1, part of Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975) - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBugs reads "Hiawatha" and winds up being hunted by him.+ Nominated +
Director: Friz Freleng
Writer: Michael Maltese
WBHEAAAC
The Maltese Falcon (1941) - DirectorFriz FrelengBuilders construct a building to the tune of Franz Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody".+ Nominated +
Director: Friz Freleng
Writer: Michael Maltese
WBHEAAAC
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsBea BenaderetSara BernerMel BlancThe story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, this time performed as pantomime to the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms.+ Nominated +
Director: Friz Freleng
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 3.3 - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancA worm reminiscent of Jerry Colonna is lowered into the water and uses various guises to lure fish. He also tangles with a crab.+ Nominated +
Director: Friz Freleng
Writer: Tedd Pierce
Action in the North Atlantic (1943) - DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetSara BernerPorky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.+ Nominated +
Director: Frank Tashlin
Writer: Warren Foster
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 3.2 - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancDave BarrySara BernerA love bird's wife has left him. He wants to end it all and tries to force Sylvester to eat him. Sylvester thinks there's something fishy about the situation and refuses to eat the bird.+ Nominated +
Director: Friz Freleng
Writer: Tedd Pierce
Platinum Collection Volume 3.2 - DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancYoung Henery Hawk's father regretfully admits their family's shame: they hunt and eat chickens. Henery set off to find one, and comes across Foghorn Leghorn, where the loudmouth rooster is engaged in his favorite pastime, playing tricks on a grumpy dog.+ Nominated +
Director: Robert McKimson
Writer: Warren Foster
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 3.4
Golden Collection 4.2, part of Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975) - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetThomas the cat finds Tweety in the snow, warming himself by a cigar butt. Thomas's mistress rescues the little yellow bird before her cat can devour him, but Thomas doesn't give up.+++ WINNER +++
Director: Friz Freleng
Writers: Tedd Pierce, Michael Maltese
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 2.3 - DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancStan FrebergMice Hubie and Bertie try to remove Claude the Cat from his house by driving him insane.+ Nominated +
Director: Chuck Jones
Writer: Michael Maltese
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 2.2
Mouse Chronicles: Chuck Jones Collection, Golden Collection 2 - DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancPepe Le Peu chases a female cat in a perfume shop until she turns the tables on him.+++ WINNER +++
Director: Chuck Jones
Writer: Michael Maltese
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 1.3
Super Stars: Pepe Le Pew - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetSylvester spots Tweety Bird in an apartment and tries to gain access but cannot make it past Granny or the cat-hating desk clerk. He tries climbing up the drainpipe, posing as an organ grinder's monkey, impersonating a bellhop, swinging across the street on a rope, and walking on a wire, but but in each case either Granny, Tweety, or his own miscalculations foil his plans.+ Nominated +
Director: Friz Freleng
Writer: Tedd Pierce
Golden Collection 1.4 - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetTweety Bird is taken by his mistress, Granny, to a beach, where Sylvester Cat spots him and tries to reach his cage, only to be stopped again and again by tidal waves.+ Nominated +
Director: Friz Freleng
Writers: Arthur Davis, Warren Foster
WBHEAAAC
Lucky Me (1954) - DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancDick BealsBea BenaderetIn his first of two Warner Bros. cartoons, schoolboy Ralph Phillips daydreams in class, the lessons inspiring his fantasy heroics, such as being a pony-express rider, a deep-sea diver, a boxing champion and even General Douglas MacArthur.+ Nominated +
Director: Chuck Jones
Writer: Michael Maltese
WBHEAAAC
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancStan FrebergSpeedy Gonzales comes to the aid of a hungry group of mice trying to get the cheese from a factory guarded by Sylvester.+++ WINNER +++
Director: Friz Freleng
Writer: Warren Foster
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 1.4 - DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancDaws ButlerTom HollandSpeedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Mexico, runs to the rescue of his two drunken rodent friends, Pablo and Fernando, who keep wandering into the hungry clutches of an alley cat.+ Nominated +
Director: Robert McKimson
Writer: Tedd Pierce
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 4.3 - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancWhen Sylvester learns of the possibly dire consequences of his passion for birds, he joins Birds Anonymous to quit. Unfortunately, the outside world taxes his resolve to the limit.+++ WINNER +++
Director: Friz Freleng
Writer: Warren Foster
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 3.4 - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancCourt jester Bugs races against the Black Knight (Yosemite Sam) and his sneezing dragon in pursuit of the Singing Sword.+++ WINNER +++
Director: Friz Freleng
Writer: Warren Foster
WBHEAAAC
Golden Collection 4.1 - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancTom HollandA pair of not-too-bright Mexican cats, one shorter-tempered than the other, decide to chase Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Mexico. And when their schemes - involving use of guitars, a fishing rod, dynamite, and land mines - all backfire, they decide to try catching Slowpoke Rodriguez, Mexico's slowest mouse. But the short-tempered cat learns too late that Slowpoke packs a gun.+ Nominated +
Director: Friz Freleng
Writer: Warren Foster
Golden Collection 4.3 - DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancDaws ButlerSylvester Cat and his orange feline friend, Sam, are rummaging through trash cans for food in the evening on a waterfront when they spot a mouse. They agree to share the little rodent for breakfast the next morning, while during the night each tries to snag the mouse for himself.+ Nominated +
Director: Friz Freleng
Golden Collection 4.4 - DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancThe sheet music for Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube" is constructed by moving musical symbols. A baton-toting conductor note tries to direct his fellow notes in performing this musical piece, but finds that one of the notes has become drunk after being inside the sheet music for "Little Brown Jug". The drunken note staggers goofily on the staves for the music of "The Blue Danube" and is chased by the conductor.+ Nominated +
Director: Chuck Jones
Writer: Michael Maltese
WBHEAAAC
Cash McCall (1960) - DirectorFriz FrelengHawley PrattStarsMel BlancSylvester the cat imitates the Pied Piper of Hamelin to lure a group of mice into a jug that he seals with a cork. But Speedy Gonzales won't be hypnotized by Sylvester's flute and gradually rescues his friends from Sylvester's clutches.+ Nominated +
Directors: Friz Freleng, Hawley Pratt
Writer: John W. Dunn
Golden Collection 4.3 - DirectorChuck JonesMaurice NobleStarsPaul JulianWile E. Coyote tries and fails to catch the Road Runner using his foot extended to trip, an arrow, a hole in the road, a winged-rocket outfit, two electronically activated machine guns, and a super magnet.+ Nominated +
Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble
Writers: John W. Dunn, Chuck Jones
Splendor in the Grass (1961)