Awards & Winners

Eddie Selzer

Date of Birth 12-January-1893
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Edward Selzer, Edward "Eddie" Selzer, Eddie
Profession Film Producer
Edward "Eddie" Selzer was an American film producer, most noted as the producer of Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1944 to 1957. After the studio was purchased from Leon Schlesinger in 1944, Selzer was assigned studio head by Jack Warner. Unlike his predecessor, he did not take any on-screen credit as producer. Much of what is known about Selzer's personality and business acumen is from Chuck Jones' autobiography, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist. In it, Jones paints Selzer as an interfering bore with no sentiment or appreciation towards animated cartoons. Some historians also claim that Friz Freleng nearly resigned after butting heads with Selzer, who did not think that pairing Sylvester the cat and Tweety was a viable decision. The argument reached its crux when Freleng reportedly placed his drawing pencil on Selzer's desk, furiously telling Selzer that if he knew so much about animation, he should do the work instead. Selzer backed off the issue and apologized to Freleng that evening, a wise decision on two fronts: Warner Bros. did not lose the talents of Freleng to a competing studio, and Tweetie Pie, the very cartoon that first paired Sylvester and Tweety together, went on to win Warner Brothers' first Academy Award for Animated Short Film, in 1947, with Tweety and Sylvester proving to be among the most endearing duos in Warner Bros. cartoons.

Awards by Eddie Selzer

Check all the awards nominated and won by Eddie Selzer.

1957


Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated)
Honored for : Birds Anonymous

Nominations 1957 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Tabasco Road
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Birds Anonymous

1955


Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated)
Honored for : Speedy Gonzales

Nominations 1955 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Speedy Gonzales

1954


Nominations 1954 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Sandy Claws

1953


Nominations 1953 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) From A to Z-Z-Z-Z

1949


Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject
Honored for : So Much for So Little
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated)
Honored for : For Scent-imental Reasons

Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject So Much for So Little
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) For Scent-imental Reasons
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Canary Row
Nomination withdrawn by producer.

1948


Nominations 1948 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Mouse Wreckers

1947


Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated)
Honored for : Tweetie Pie

Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Tweetie Pie

1946


Nominations 1946 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Walky Talky Hawky

1945


Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated) Life with Feathers