Best Short Films, 1946

Awards presented March 13, 1947

The nominees were ... 
(Cartoon) 

• The Cat Concerto, Frederick Quimby, producer 
• Chopin's Musical Moments, Walter Lantz, producer 
• John Henry and the Inky Poo, George Pal, producer 
• Squatter's Rights, Walt Disney, producer
• Walky Talky Hawky, Edward Selzer, producer  

(One-Reel) 

• Dive-Hi Champs, Jack Eaton, producer 
• Facing Your Danger, Gordon Hollingshead, producer 
• Golden Horses, Edmund Reek, producer 
• Smart as a Fox, Gordon Hollingshead, producer 
• Sure Cures, Pete Smith, producer

(Two-Reel) 

• A Boy and His Dog, Gordon Hollingshead, producer 
• College Queen, George B. Templeton, producer 
• Hiss and Yell, Jules White, producer 
• The Luckiest Guy in the World, Jerry Bresler, producer 

And the Oscar went to ... 

(Cartoon) 

The Cat Concerto, Frederick Quimby, producer. 

For the fourth year in a row, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom and Jerry slaughter the competition -- and each other. The steady violence of these cartoons has gone out of style, partly through the efforts of well-meaning censors but also because of the delicious satire of the "Itchy and Scratchy" parodies on The Simpsons, which shone a light on the essentially unfunny excess of the series. But The Cat Concerto is one of the best of the series: Tom is a concert pianist who awakens Jerry, asleep in the piano, during a performance of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Jerry of course tries to sabotage the performance. Scott Bradley, the regular composer for the Tom and Jerry series, does a wonderful job of making hash of the rhapsody. 

 

(One-Reel) 
Facing Your Danger, Gordon Hollingshead, producer. 

Gordon Hollingshead

A team runs the Colorado River rapids through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead. A producer for shorts at Warner Bros., Hollingshead won two short-film Oscars this year, bringing his total to four. He would win a fifth. 

(Two-Reel) 
A Boy and His Dog, Gordon Hollingshead, producer.

A rather sugary tale of a boy who rescues an abused dog. When its owner demands that he return it, a magistrate, played by the venerable character actor Harry Davenport, sorts things out. Directed by LeRoy Prinz, who is best known as a choreographer.