Best of Warner Bros.: The Academy Awards Animation Collection

Due to the success of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection, Hanna Barbera's All-Star Collection Walter Lantz Cartoon Collection, Harveytoon Pals Collection, and Popeye DVD series, Warner Home Video issued a 4-DVD set on February 12, showcasing the various animation properties that they own including their home-grown product Looney Tunes. Other animation properties represented on this set were Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Barney Bear and other classic MGM cartoons as well as entries from Hanna Barbera's Yogi Bear and Snagglepuss (from The Yogi Bear Show), Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker, Harvey Comics Characters (like Baby Huey, Herman and Katnip, Casper the Friendly Ghost and Little Audrey) and Max Fleischer's Popeye and Superman series (both originally released by Paramount Pictures). All cartoons selected for this release were nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, with the exception of the film So Much for So Little which won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. A total of 57 cartoons (completely uncut and unedited) were chosen for this set, 19 of them being winners. Many of the Looney Tunes shorts featured on this collection have also been released on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets, but this set also includes a handful of cartoons that have not been released on these Golden Collections. The cartoons A Wild Hare and Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt which were previously reissued as Blue Ribbons have their full original titles restored. The cartoon From A to Z-Z-Z-Z previously released as a Blue Ribbon, but retaining its full slate of credits was also presented on this set in its original format. All the Tom and Jerry shorts have been previously released on the Spotlight Collections, but most of them are presented here in remastered versions (the copies sourced for Mouse Trouble and Quiet Please! were old worn-out TV transfers). Touché, Pussy Cat!, Busy Buddies, Good Will to Men, Scat Cats, One Droopy Knight and The Vanishing Duck are presented in their original Cinemascope aspect ratios. To this day, this is Warner's only DVD release of classic animation to feature a variety of different cartoon studios. Aside from this 4-DVD set aimed towards collectors, Warner also released a single DVD of just the 19 winners.

Disc 1
All 19 cartoons on this disc won Academy Awards

Audio Bonuses

 * Music-only tracks
 * The Seapreme Court
 * Speedy Gonzales
 * The Dot and the Line
 * Audio Commentaries
 * Mark Kausler on Quiet Please!
 * Eric Goldberg on The Cat Concerto and The Dot and the Line
 * Greg Ford on For Scent-imental Reasons
 * Jerry Beck on So Much for So Little

Disc 2
All 21 cartoons on this disc were nominated for Academy Awards, but did not win

Audio Bonuses
Audio Commentaries
 * Jerry Beck, Leslie Carbaga, Ray Pointer and Bob Jacques on Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
 * Greg Ford on Peace on Earth and A Wild Hare
 * Mark Kausler on Puss Gets the Boot
 * Paul Dini on Superman
 * Eric Goldberg on Blitz Wolf
 * Jerry Beck on Walky Talky Hawky

Goofs
The print of Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor featured on this set has the music from the a.a.p. ending logo (originally the ending music to Olive Oyl for President) on the end Paramount title.

Disc 3
All 17 cartoons on this disc were nominated for Academy Awards, but did not win

Audio Bonuses

 * The Scarlet Pumpernickel
 * Tarts and Flowers
 * Little Johnny Jet
 * Touche, Pussy Cat!
 * Vocal Chorus section isolated audio track
 * Good Will to Men
 * Audio Commentaries
 * Amid Amidi on From A to Z-Z-Z-Z

Disc 4
All 19 cartoons on this disc were nominated for Academy Awards, but did not win

Audio Bonuses

 * Tabasco Road
 * One Droopy Knight
 * Prince Violent
 * Audio Commentaries
 * Amid Amidi on Now Hear This

Documentary

 * Drawn for Glory: Animation's Triumph at the Oscars

Bonus Short

 * Bugs Bunny in What's Cookin' Doc?