Tom and Jerry won seven Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film between 1943 and 1953.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences started giving awards for short cartoons in 1932. Tom and Jerry won their first Oscar for 'The Yankee Doodle Mouse' in 1943. They won six more awards over the next ten years for films like 'The Cat Concerto' and 'The Two Mouseketeers'.William Hanna and Joseph Barbera directed all 114 original Tom and Jerry shorts at the MGM studio in California. They used a technique called full animation. This means they drew more frames per second to make the movement look smooth and realistic. They also used a full orchestra to match the music perfectly with the characters' actions.The series was nominated for 13 Academy Awards in total. Their seven wins set a record for a theatrical animated series that remains famous today. Most of these wins happened before 1954 when movie studios started spending less money on short cartoons. These awards helped Tom and Jerry become some of the most recognizable characters in the world.