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This Academy Award, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
, is an honorary acting award. It is officially called either the "Special Award" or the Special Juvenile Academy Award. It was first awarded by the Academy for work in 1934 and continued sporadically until 1960. The trophy itself was a miniature statuette.. In 1961, Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills

Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning England actor....
 was the last recipient to be presented the miniature statuette for this award; she received it "for Pollyanna
Pollyanna (1960 film)

Pollyanna is a Walt Disney Productions feature film starring child actor Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town....
, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960." That year was the last year that this award was presented.

There was some criticism of the miniature statuettes, and, some time after 1961, Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple

Shirley Jane Temple is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic United States child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult....
 was given a full-sized statue to replace the miniature "Oscar" that she had originally been presented with her 1934 "Special Award" at the 1935 Academy Awards ceremony.








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This Academy Award, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
, is an honorary acting award. It is officially called either the "Special Award" or the Special Juvenile Academy Award. It was first awarded by the Academy for work in 1934 and continued sporadically until 1960. The trophy itself was a miniature statuette.. In 1961, Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills

Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning England actor....
 was the last recipient to be presented the miniature statuette for this award; she received it "for Pollyanna
Pollyanna (1960 film)

Pollyanna is a Walt Disney Productions feature film starring child actor Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town....
, the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960." That year was the last year that this award was presented.

There was some criticism of the miniature statuettes, and, some time after 1961, Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple

Shirley Jane Temple is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic United States child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult....
 was given a full-sized statue to replace the miniature "Oscar" that she had originally been presented with her 1934 "Special Award" at the 1935 Academy Awards ceremony.

Recipients


Source: Citations and parenthetical awards ceremony numbers are those provided in the searchable Official Academy Awards Database.


1930s
  • 1934 (7th) Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple

    Shirley Jane Temple is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic United States child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult....
     - "in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment in the year 1934." ("Special Award")


  • 1938 (11th) Deanna Durbin
    Deanna Durbin

    Deanna Durbin is a Canada singer and actress....
     and Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
     - "for their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement."
  • 1939 (12th) Judy Garland
    Judy Garland

    Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
     - "for her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year."


1940s

  • 1944 (17th) Margaret O'Brien
    Margaret O'Brien

    Margaret O'Brien is an Academy Award-winning United Statesn film actor, and although her career was brief, was one of the most highly regarded child actors in cinema history....
     - "outstanding child actress of 1944."
  • 1945 (18th) Peggy Ann Garner
    Peggy Ann Garner

    Peggy Ann Garner was an Academy Award-winning American cinema and theater actress....
     - "outstanding child actress of 1945."
  • 1946 (19th) Claude Jarman, Jr. - "outstanding child actor of 1946."
  • 1948 (21st) Ivan Jandl
    Ivan Jandl

    Ivan Jandl was an Academy Award-winning Czech Republic child actor.Jandl appeared in the 1948 film The Search as a nine year old Czech boy who had survived Auschwitz and was searching for his mother in post-war Germany....
     - "for the outstanding juvenile performance of 1948, as 'Karel Malik' in The Search
    The Search

    The Search is a 1948 film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World War II Europe....
    ."
  • 1949 (22nd) Bobby Driscoll
    Bobby Driscoll

    Bobby Driscoll was an Academy Award-winning United States child actor known for a large body of screen- and TV-work from 1943 to 1960. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Company's most popular live-action pictures, such as Song of the South , So Dear to My Heart , and Treasure Island , and he was also the close-up model and t...
     - "as the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949."


1950s

  • 1954 (27th) Jon Whiteley
    Jon Whiteley

    Jon Whiteley was a briefly successful Academy Award-winning child actor in films.Whiteley appeared in five films during his brief career, and it was for the second of these, The Little Kidnappers that he, along with co-star Vincent Winter, was awarded an Academy Juvenile Award for this film....
     - "for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers
    The Little Kidnappers

    Set in Nova Scotia in 1903, The Little Kidnappers is a Disney Channel film that tells the story of orphans Harry and Davy MacKenzie and of their grandfather, James MacKenzie ....
    ."
  • 1954 (27th) Vincent Winter
    Vincent Winter

    Vincent Winter was a Scotland film actor who was successful as a child actor....
     - "for his outstanding performance in The Little Kidnappers
    The Little Kidnappers

    Set in Nova Scotia in 1903, The Little Kidnappers is a Disney Channel film that tells the story of orphans Harry and Davy MacKenzie and of their grandfather, James MacKenzie ....
    ."


1960s
  • 1960 (33rd) Hayley Mills
    Hayley Mills

    Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills is an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning England actor....
     - "for Pollyanna
    Pollyanna (1960 film)

    Pollyanna is a Walt Disney Productions feature film starring child actor Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town....
    , the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960."


See also

  • Academy Award (Oscar)
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
     (AMPAS)
  • Honorary Academy Award


External links

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