Best Short Film, 1945

Awards presented March 7, 1946
The nominees were ... 
(Cartoon) 
(One-reel) 
And the Oscar went to ... 
(Cartoon) 

The Academy's love of Tom and Jerry mayhem continues, this time with the addition of Spike, the bulldog, to the household. Spike wants to take a nap, but Jerry, sensing an opportunity to get Tom in trouble, devises ways to make noise and keep Spike awake. One of the few Tom and Jerry cartoons with voices: Spike's is Billy Bletcher, Tom's William Hanna. 



(One-reel) 
Stairway to LightHerbert Moulton, producer; Jerry Bresler, executive producer.

Glossy and didactic account of the effort of late eighteenth-century French physician Philippe Pinel to bring about humane treatment of the mentally ill. One of MGM's "Passing Parade" shorts with narration by John Nesbitt.



(Two-reel) 
Star in the NightGordon Hollingshead, producer.

J. Carrol Naish plays a motel keeper with a Scrooge-like attitude toward Christmas until the star advertising his motel attracts a young couple named Jose and Maria Santos who are looking for shelter. Then three cowboys, who just happen to be carrying gifts, show up too. Get it? One of the first films directed by Don Siegel, who also directed the year's Oscar-winning documentary short Hitler Lives?

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