Here's a list of the ten best Donald Duck cartoons from a real fan. And if you've never seen Donald's only Oscar-winning short, Der Fuehrer's Face (1942) you can watch it on YouTube.
The Disney and Warner Bros characters used to get Oscar nominated a lot in the Animated Short category. In the past couple of decades the closest thing we have to a perennial in that category is Wallace & Gromit or Pixar as a studio, if that counts, though their characters don't repeat.
You know what I think is a crying shame as animated short films go? That Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) didn't really become a franchise. Disney made three short films with the characters after that blockbuster hit: Tummy Trouble, Rollercoaster Rabbit and Trail Mix-Up though none were nominated at the Oscars. They had the misfortune of arriving in that stretch of a dozen years or so when there were never more than 3 nominees in that category.*
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Happy birthday Donald!
Wow, that Der Fuehrer's Face film avoided subtlety all the way! Good for it :)
I guess the voters felt guilty that the USA hadn't yet done anything for the War. Not that it wouldn't win in any case.
PS: I love Gastone. :p
I hated Daffy, liked Donald, preferred Huey-Dewey-Louie, but my favorite duck in that family was Uncle Scrooge. The strange and wonderful adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the boys, travelling to other planets, meeting Norse gods, etc!
I also loved Chip and Dale. They are a little like Jeeves and Bertie. They seemed to have the most fun of the cartoon characters.
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