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
- 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
- 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)
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.
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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.
