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{{Short description|Special Honorary Academy Award for performers under the age of 18}}
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| name             = Academy Juvenile Award
| image            = Oscar march50.JPG
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| caption          = [[Bobby Driscoll]] accepting the Juvenile Award
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| awarded_for      = [[Academy Honorary Award]] presented for "Outstanding Juvenile Performance"
| presenter        = [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]
| country          = United States
| year             = [[7th Academy Awards|February 27, 1935]]
| year2            = [[33rd Academy Awards|April 17, 1961]]
| holder.        =  
| website          = [http://www.oscars.org www.Oscars.org]
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The '''Academy Juvenile Award''', also known informally as the '''Juvenile Oscar''', was a [[Academy Honorary Award|Special Honorary]] [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] bestowed at the discretion of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences#Current administration of the Academy|Board of Governors]] of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS) to specifically recognize [[wikt:juvenile|juvenile]] performers under the age of eighteen for their "outstanding contribution[s] to screen entertainment".<ref name="Oscars 22">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/about/awards/honorary.html |title=Honorary Award |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706065625/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/about/awards/honorary.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref><ref name="Oscars.org 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/7th.html |title=7th Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072745/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/7th.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>

The honor was first awarded by the academy at the [[7th Academy Awards]] to 6-year-old [[Shirley Temple]] for her work in [[1934 in film|motion pictures of 1934]].<ref name="Oscars.org 1"/>  The Award continued to be presented intermittently over the next 26 years to a total of 12 child actors and actresses, with the last Juvenile Oscar presented at the [[33rd Academy Awards]] to 14-year-old [[Hayley Mills]] who received the child-size statuette for her performance in the [[1960 in film|1960]] film ''[[Pollyanna (1960 film)|Pollyanna]]''.<ref name="Oscars.org 10">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/33rd.html |title=33rd Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706073134/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/33rd.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>

The trophy itself was a miniature Academy Award statuette standing an estimated seven inches tall (depending upon variations to its base over time),<ref name="Oscars.org 1"/><ref name="Oscars.org 4">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/17th.html |title=17th Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072859/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/17th.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref><ref name="TV Guide">{{cite web|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/movie-news/know-Oscar-statuettes-62595.aspx|title=Movie News: Oscar Statuettes|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=TVGuide.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210044203/http://movies.tvguide.com/movie-news/know-oscar-statuettes-62595.aspx|archive-date=December 10, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Variety2">{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/features/liza-minnelli-judy-garland-bob-fosse-rehab-1203490846/|title=Liza Minnelli Opens Up About Oscars, Mom Judy Garland, Bob Fosse and Rehab|access-date=February 11, 2021|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=Marc|last=Malkin|date=February 4, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Variety3">{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/liza-minnelli-variety-cover-story-full-2.jpg|title=Garland-Minnelli Family Oscars Photographed at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills|access-date=February 11, 2021|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=Robert|last=Trachtenberg|date=February 4, 2020}}</ref> approximately half the height of the standard 13.5 inch tall Oscar trophy.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/about/awards/oscar.html/?pn=statuette|title= Oscar Statuette: Legacy|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date = 13 April 2007|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131211172055/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/about/awards/oscar.html/?pn=statuette|archive-date= 11 December 2013}}</ref>

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== Honorary Academy Awards ==

{{main|Academy Honorary Award}}

In addition to its competitive [[Academy Awards]] of Merit, the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS) also presents [[Academy Honorary Award|"Special"]] or [[Academy Honorary Award|"Honorary"]] Academy Awards.  These awards are given (typically, annually) by the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences#Current administration of the Academy|Board of Governors]] of AMPAS to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by other existing [[Academy Awards]] categories.<ref name=HonoraryAbout>{{cite web|title=Honorary Award: About |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=http://www.oscars.org/governors/honorary |access-date=2017-02-27}}</ref><ref name=AboutHonoraryAward>{{Cite web|author=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |url=http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/awards/honorary01.html |title=About Academy Awards: Honorary Award |work=Official Academy Award Website |format=[[World Wide Web|Web]] |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS) Oscars.org |access-date=2008-07-29 |quote=The Academy's Honorary Award is given to honor ''extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy.'' It is given at the discretion of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences#Current administration of the Academy|Board of Governors]] and is not necessarily given every year, although the last year it was not given before 2008 was 1987. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409013646/http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/awards/honorary01.html |archive-date=2008-04-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  This included the awards that had been presented to juvenile actors from 1934 to 1960 (known only informally as the "Juvenile Academy Awards").

Beginning with the [[1st Academy Awards]] {{ndash}} celebrating film achievements of [[1927 in film|1927]] and [[1928 in film|1928]] {{ndash}} these awards were formally referred to as "Special Awards".  The first of these Special Awards was presented to [[Charlie Chaplin|Charles Chaplin]] (for ''[[The Circus (1928 film)|The Circus]]'') and to [[Warner Bros.]] (for ''[[The Jazz Singer]]'').  Beginning with the [[23rd Academy Awards]] {{ndash}} celebrating film achievements of [[1950 in film|1950]] {{ndash}} these Special Awards were formally renamed by the academy as "Honorary Awards".  These Honorary Awards continue to be presented today, although the "Juvenile Academy Award" proper has itself been discontinued.

== History of the Academy Juvenile Award ==

The Academy Awards, [[1st Academy Awards|first presented on May 16, 1929]], did not initially present a [[Academy Honorary Award|Special Award]] for juvenile actors.<ref name="Oscars.org 11">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/1st.html |title=1st Academy Awards |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072710/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/1st.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  The very first [[child actor]] to be nominated for an Oscar was 9-year-old [[Jackie Cooper]], who was nominated as [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] in 1931 for his work in the film ''[[Skippy (1931 film)|Skippy]]''.  Cooper, however, lost that year to [[Lionel Barrymore]].<ref name="Oscars.org 12">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1932 |title=4th Academy Awards - Winners |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093643/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/4th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  Recognizing that children could be placed at a disadvantage in the hearts and minds of Academy voters when nominated alongside their adult counterparts in the competitive [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] and [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] categories<ref name="Reuters">{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oscars-childactor-idUSN2023079820070221|title=Baby Oscar winners advise Sunshine child star|author=Bob Tourtellotte|date=February 21, 2007|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=Reuters|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222224456/https://www.reuters.com/article/2007/02/21/us-oscars-childactor-idUSN2023079820070221|archive-date=February 22, 2014}}</ref> {{ndash}} and with no categories for [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]] or [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Supporting Actress]] having yet been created<ref name="Oscars.org 13">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1935 |title=7th Academy Awards - Winners |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093704/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/7th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> {{ndash}} the academy saw the need to establish an Honorary "Special Award" specifically to recognize juveniles under the age of eighteen for their work in film.<ref name="Oscars.org 1"/>

On February 27, 1935, the [[7th Academy Awards|7th Annual Academy Awards]], honoring achievements in film for the year 1934, became the first Oscar ceremony at which the Special Juvenile Award was presented.<ref name="Oscars.org 1"/>  Playfully dubbed the "Oscarette" by [[Bob Hope]] in 1945,<ref name="Hollywoodland 1">{{cite web|url=http://allanellenberger.com/book-flm-news/an-interview-with-margaret-obrien-part-two/|title=An Interview with Margaret O'Brien|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=Hollywoodland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729163204/http://allanellenberger.com/book-flm-news/an-interview-with-margaret-obrien-part-two/|archive-date=July 29, 2012}}</ref> the statuette itself was a miniaturized Oscar, depicting an [[Art Deco]] image of a [[knight]] holding a [[crusades|crusader's]] [[sword]] and standing on a [[reel]] of film.<ref name="Gold Encyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kBDo5ClEaxAC&pg=PA220|title=Oscar Statuette|access-date=July 12, 2011|encyclopedia=Gold: A Cultural Encyclopedia|isbn=9780313384301|last1=Kenny|first1=Shannon L.|last2=Venable|first2=Shannon L.|year=2011}}</ref>  Standing approximately one-half the size of its full-sized counterpart, this rare child-sized trophy remained the [[prototype]] for the statuette throughout the history of the Award, with only relatively small modifications to its base over time.<ref name="TV Guide"/><ref name="Los Angeles Times 2">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-22-et-lacher22-story.html|title=Big Battle Over Mini Award|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=Irene|last=Lacher|date=March 22, 2002|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107132726/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/22/entertainment/et-lacher22|archive-date=November 7, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Variety">{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2000/voices/columns/luft-dances-around-oscar-auction-inquiries-1117785696/|title=Luft Dances around Oscar Inquiries|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=Army|last=Archerd|date=August 28, 2000|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108162149/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117785696?refCatId=2|archive-date=November 8, 2012}}</ref>

After first being presented in 1935, the Special Juvenile Award continued to be presented intermittently to a total of 12 young actors and actresses over the next 26 years.<ref name="TV Guide"/><ref name="Mental Floss">{{cite web|url=http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/47983|title=10 Bygone Academy Awards|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=MentalFloss.com|date=February 18, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017022612/http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/47983|archive-date=October 17, 2012}}</ref>  However, there were several juvenile actors who were instead nominated in the competitive Best Supporting Actor/Actress categories during this time.  These included, most notably: 14-year-old [[Bonita Granville]] as Best Supporting Actress of 1936 for ''[[These Three]]'';<ref name="Oscars.org 14">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/9th.html |title=9th Academy Awards - Winners |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093710/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/9th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> 11-year-old [[Brandon deWilde]] as Best Supporting Actor of 1953 for ''[[Shane (film)|Shane]]'';<ref name="Oscars.org 15">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/26th.html |title=26th Academy Awards - Winners |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093858/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/26th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> 17-year-old [[Sal Mineo]] as Best Supporting Actor of 1955 for ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'';<ref name="Oscars.org 16">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/28th.html |title=28th Academy Awards - Winners |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094007/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/28th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> and 11-year-old [[Patty McCormack]] as Best Supporting Actress of 1956 for ''[[The Bad Seed (1956 film)|The Bad Seed]]''.<ref name="Oscars.org 17">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/29th.html |title=29th Academy Awards - Winners |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094056/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/29th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  All of these nominees, however, lost to their adult counterparts in their respective categories.

Held on April 17, 1961, the [[33rd Academy Awards|33rd Annual Academy Awards]], honoring achievements in film for the year 1960, was the last Oscar ceremony at which the Honorary Juvenile Award was presented.<ref name="Oscars.org 10"/>

== Honorees of the Academy Juvenile Award ==
=== 1930s ===
[[File:James Dunn and Shirley Temple publicity photo for "Bright Eyes" - front (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|[[Shirley Temple]] with [[James Dunn (actor)|James Dunn]] in ''[[Bright Eyes (1934 film)|Bright Eyes]]'' (1934)]]
[[File:Judy Garland Over the Rainbow 2.jpg|thumb|[[Judy Garland]] with canine co-star [[Terry (dog)|Terry]] in ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939)]]

The [[7th Academy Awards|7th Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Shirley Temple]] with the academy's first Juvenile Award to honor "her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934."<ref name="Oscars.org 1"/>  Beginning her film career at the age of three, in 1934 Temple had attained child stardom in such films as ''[[Stand Up and Cheer!]]'', ''[[Little Miss Marker (1934 film)|Little Miss Marker]]'', ''[[Baby Take a Bow]]'' and ''[[Bright Eyes (1934 film)|Bright Eyes]]''.  Six years old on the night she accepted her honorary statuette, Temple is the youngest recipient ever to be honored by the academy.

The [[11th Academy Awards|11th Annual Academy Awards]] recognized both [[Deanna Durbin]] and [[Mickey Rooney]] with the Juvenile Award honoring "their significant contribution in bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth".<ref name="Oscars.org 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/11th.html |title=11th Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072812/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/11th.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  By 1938, 16-year-old Durbin was a rising star as the singing ingenue in such films as ''[[Mad About Music]]'' and ''[[That Certain Age]]'', while Rooney had risen to fame in the ''[[Andy Hardy]]'' comedies and received critical acclaim for his dramatic turn in ''[[Boys Town (film)|Boys Town]]''.<ref name="Prescott Evening Courier">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JLBaAAAAIBAJ&pg=3561,5557130|title=Mickey Rooney a Star in 'Boys Town'|date=September 16, 1938|work=Prescott Courier}}</ref>  Eighteen years old on the night he accepted the accolade, Rooney was the oldest recipient ever to be honored with the academy's Juvenile Award.

The [[12th Academy Awards|12th Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Judy Garland]] with the Juvenile Award honoring "her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year".<ref name="Oscars.org 3">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/12th.html |title=12th Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072821/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/12th.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  In 1939, 16-year-old Garland had become one of [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]]'s brightest young stars, appearing that year in the [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] musicals ''[[Babes in Arms (film)|Babes in Arms]]'' and ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''.  Although she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress of 1954,<ref name="Oscars.org 20">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/27th.html |title=27th Academy Awards - Winners |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706093921/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/27th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> and again as Best Supporting Actress of 1961,<ref name="Oscars.org 21">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/34th.html |title=34th Academy Awards - Winners |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094240/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/34th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> the Juvenile Award was the only honor Garland received from the academy.

=== 1940s ===
[[File:Meet-Me-in-St-Louis-LIFE-1944.jpg|thumb|[[Margaret O'Brien]] with [[Judy Garland]] in ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]'' (1944)]]
[[File:Wyman Jarman Jr. Peck 1946.jpg|thumb|[[Claude Jarman Jr.]] with [[Jane Wyman]] and [[Gregory Peck]] in ''[[The Yearling (1946 film)|The Yearling]]'' (1946)]]

The [[17th Academy Awards|17th Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Margaret O'Brien]] with the Juvenile Award honoring her as "outstanding child actress of 1944".<ref name="Oscars.org 4"/>  That year, 7-year-old O'Brien had become one of the most popular child actresses of her day, starring in the films ''[[The Canterville Ghost (1944 film)|The Canterville Ghost]]'', ''[[Music for Millions]]'', and ''[[Meet Me In St. Louis]]'' alongside former Juvenile Award Honoree Judy Garland.  Hosting the Annual ceremony that year was [[Bob Hope]] who dubbed the Juvenile Award the "Oscarette" upon presenting O'Brien with her miniature Oscar.<ref name="Hollywoodland 1"/>

The [[18th Academy Awards|18th Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Peggy Ann Garner]] with the Juvenile Award honoring her as "outstanding child actress of 1945".<ref name="Oscars.org 5">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/18th.html |title=18th Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072912/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/18th.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  Beginning her prolific film career at the age of six, in 1945, 13-year-old Garner appeared in ''[[Nob Hill (1945 film)|Nob Hill]]'' and ''[[Junior Miss (film)|Junior Miss]]'', as well as receiving critical acclaim for her dramatic role as Francie Nolan, a girl living in the Brooklyn slums with her devoted mother and alcoholic father in the [[20th Century Fox]] drama, ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]''.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 5">{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/412374561.html?dids=412374561:412374561&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+29%2C+1945&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=A+Star+Grows+In+Hollywood&pqatl=google|title=A Star Grows in Hollywood|date=April 29, 1945|work=Los Angeles Times|first=James F|last=Denton|access-date=July 5, 2017|archive-date=November 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107102635/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/412374561.html?dids=412374561:412374561&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+29,+1945&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=A+Star+Grows+In+Hollywood&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[19th Academy Awards|19th Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Claude Jarman Jr.]] with the Juvenile Award honoring him as "outstanding child actor of 1946".<ref name="Oscars.org 6">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/19th.html |title=19th Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072927/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/19th.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  Twelve&nbsp;years old in 1946, Jarman was honored with the Juvenile Oscar for his screen debut as Jody in the [[MGM]] family drama, ''[[The Yearling (film)|The Yearling]]'', which was presented to him by former recipient [[Shirley Temple]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Claude Jarman, Jr.|work=Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database|url=http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/019-7/|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=December 18, 2019}}</ref> Although the academy did not officially begin to present the Juvenile Award for a child's work in a specific film until two years later, ''The Yearling'' was Jarman's first and only film released in 1946.

The [[21st Academy Awards|21st Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Ivan Jandl]] with the Juvenile Award honoring him for "the outstanding juvenile performance of 1948, as 'Karel Malik' in ''"[[The Search (1948 film)|The Search]]"''.<ref name="Oscars.org 7">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/21st.html |title=21st Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072955/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/21st.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  Born in [[Czechoslovakia]], and beginning his relatively brief film career in 1948 at the age of eleven, Jandl was the first foreign child actor to be honored with the Juvenile Oscar.  Unable to travel to the [[United States]] to attend the ceremony, Jandl's statuette was instead presented to him in his native [[Prague]].<ref name="Los Angeles Times 4">{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/418300281.html?dids=418300281%3A418300281&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE%3AAI&type=historic&date=May+15%2C+1949&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Boy+Actor%27s+Oscar+Given+Czech+Envoy&pqatl=google|title=Boy Actor's Oscar Given Czech Envoy|date=May 15, 1949|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 5, 2017|archive-date=January 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112205901/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/418300281.html?dids=418300281%3A418300281&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE%3AAI&type=historic&date=May+15%2C+1949&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Boy+Actor%27s+Oscar+Given+Czech+Envoy&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[22nd Academy Awards|22nd Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Bobby Driscoll]] with the Juvenile Award honoring him as "the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949".<ref name="Oscars.org 8">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/22nd.html |title=22nd Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072958/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/22nd.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  That year, 12-year-old Driscoll had starred in the [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]] tear-jerker ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]'', as well as garnering critical acclaim for his dramatic performance in the [[RKO Pictures|RKO]] melodrama ''[[The Window (1949 film)|The Window]]''. Demonstrating the prestige the Honorary Juvenile Award held for Hollywood child stars of the time, on the night of the ceremony, Driscoll nervously accepted his miniature statuette saying, "I don't ever think I've been so thrilled in my life."<ref name="Archive.org">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/AcademyAwardsCeremonies|title=22nd Academy Awards Radio Broadcast|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=Archive.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228183636/https://archive.org/details/AcademyAwardsCeremonies|archive-date=February 28, 2014}}</ref>

=== 1950s{{ndash}}1960 ===
The [[27th Academy Awards|27th Annual Academy Awards]] recognized both [[Jon Whiteley]] and [[Vincent Winter]] with the Juvenile Award honoring their "outstanding juvenile performance(s) in ''[[The Kidnappers|The Little Kidnappers]]"''.<ref name="Oscars.org 9">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/27th.html |title=27th Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706073051/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/27th.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  Perhaps best known to audiences in their native [[Scotland]], in 1953, Whiteley, age 8, and Winter, age 6, played Harry and Davy respectively, two boys living with their grandfather in Nova Scotia who, forbidden by their grandfather to have a dog, "kidnap" an unattended baby and care for the child as their own in the British produced family drama.

The [[33rd Academy Awards|33rd Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Hayley Mills]] with what would be the last Juvenile Award, honoring her performance in ''[[Pollyanna (1960 film)|Pollyanna]]'' as "the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960".<ref name="Oscars.org 10"/>  Making her acting debut at the age of twelve alongside her father [[John Mills]] in the 1959 crime thriller ''[[Tiger Bay (1959 film)|Tiger Bay]]'', in 1960, 13-year-old Mills made her [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]] debut as the titular Pollyanna which also earned her a [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Award]] nomination that same year as "Best British Actress".<ref name="BAFTA.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/nominations/?year=1960|title=14th BAFTA Awards - Winners|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=BAFTA.org}}</ref>

==List of honorees==
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
! colspan=5 align=center style="background:#EEDD82"| <big>Honorees of the Academy Juvenile Award<br />[[7th Academy Awards|1934]]{{spaced en dash}}[[33rd Academy Awards|1960]]</big>
|-
|-style="height: 3.2em;"
! style="background-color:#F5F5DC; width:100px;" | Year
! style="background-color:#F5F5DC; width:100px;" | Ceremony
! style="background-color:#F5F5DC; width:150px;" | Name
! style="background-color:#F5F5DC; width:150px;" | Age{{efn-ua|This list of honorees indicates the ages of the recipients at the time of the awards ceremony (not at the time of filming the movie for which they were being honored).  In some cases, the awards ceremony was held more than a year after a film's original release, and as much as two years after [[principal photography]] was completed.}}
! style="background-color:#F5F5DC; width:800px;" | Honor
|-
|-style="background-color:#EEDD82; height:3.2em;" 
| [[1934 in film|1934]]
|  data-sort-value="07" | [[7th Academy Awards|7th]]
| {{sortname|Shirley|Temple}}
| {{ayd|1928|04|23|1935|02|27}}
| align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Shirley Temple, in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934.
|-
|-style="background-color:#F5F5DC"
| rowspan="2" | [[1938 in film|1938]]
| rowspan="2" | [[11th Academy Awards|11th]]
| {{sortname|Deanna|Durbin}}
| {{ayd|1921|12|04|1939|02|23}}
| rowspan="2" align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney 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.
|-style="background-color:#F5F5DC"
| {{sortname|Mickey|Rooney}}
| style="white-space:nowrap;"|{{ayd|1920|09|23|1939|02|23}}
|-
|-style="background-color:#EEDD82; height:3.2em;" 
| [[1939 in film|1939]]
|  data-sort-value="12" | [[12th Academy Awards|12th]]
| {{sortname|Judy|Garland}}
| {{ayd|1922|06|10|1940|02|29}}
| align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Judy Garland for her outstanding performance as a screen juvenile during the past year.
|-
|-style="background-color:#F5F5DC; height:3.2em;" 
| [[1944 in film|1944]]
|  data-sort-value="17" | [[17th Academy Awards|17th]]
| {{sortname|Margaret|O'Brien}}
| {{ayd|1937|01|15|1945|03|15}}
| align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Margaret O'Brien, outstanding child actress of 1944.
|-
|-style="background-color:#EEDD82; height:3.2em;" 
| [[1945 in film|1945]]
|  data-sort-value="18" | [[18th Academy Awards|18th]]
| style="white-space:nowrap;"|{{sortname|Peggy Ann|Garner}}
| {{ayd|1932|02|03|1946|03|07}}
| align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Peggy Ann Garner, outstanding child actress of 1945.
|-
|-style="background-color:#F5F5DC; height:3.2em;" 
| [[1946 in film|1946]]
|  data-sort-value="19" | [[19th Academy Awards|19th]]
| {{sortname|Claude|Jarman, Jr.|Claude Jarman Jr.}}
| {{ayd|1934|09|27|1947|03|13}}
| align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Claude Jarman, Jr., outstanding child actor of 1946.
|-
|-style="background-color:#EEDD82; height:3.2em;" 
| [[1948 in film|1948]]
|  data-sort-value="21" | [[21st Academy Awards|21st]]
| {{sortname|Ivan|Jandl}}
| {{ayd|1937|01|24|1949|03|24}}
| align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Ivan Jandl, for the outstanding juvenile performance of 1948, as "Karel Malik" in ''[[The Search (1948 film)|The Search]]''.
|-
|-style="background-color:#F5F5DC; height:3.2em;" 
| [[1949 in film|1949]]
|  data-sort-value="22" | [[22nd Academy Awards|22nd]]
| {{sortname|Bobby|Driscoll}}
| {{ayd|1937|03|03|1950|03|23}}
| align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Bobby Driscoll, as the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949.
|-
|-style="background-color:#EEDD82; height:3.2em;" 
| rowspan="2" | [[1954 in film|1954]]
| rowspan="2" data-sort-value="27" | [[27th Academy Awards|27th]]
| {{sortname|Jon|Whiteley}}
| {{ayd|1945|02|19|1955|03|30}}
| align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Jon Whiteley for his outstanding juvenile performance in ''[[The Kidnappers|The Little Kidnappers]]''.
|-style="background-color:#EEDD82; height:3.2em;" 
| {{sortname|Vincent|Winter}}
| {{ayd|1947|12|29|1955|03|30}}
| align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Vincent Winter for his outstanding juvenile performance in ''[[The Kidnappers|The Little Kidnappers]]''.
|-
|-style="background-color:#F5F5DC; height:3.2em;" 
| [[1960 in film|1960]]
|  data-sort-value="33" | [[33rd Academy Awards|33rd]]
| {{sortname|Hayley|Mills}}
| {{ayd|1946|04|18|1961|04|17}}
| align="left"style="padding-left: 2em;"| To Hayley Mills for ''[[Pollyanna (1960 film)|Pollyanna]]'', the most outstanding juvenile performance during 1960.
|-
|- class="sortbottom"
! style="background-color:#EEDD82 |  10              <br />  Years
! style="background-color:#EEDD82 |  10              <br />  Ceremonies
! style="background-color:#EEDD82 |  12              <br />  Honorees
! style="background-color:#EEDD82 |  13              <br />  Average Age
! style="background-color:#EEDD82 |  Column Totals
|-
|}

; Notes

{{Notelist-ua|100em}}

==Post-juvenile era==
In 1962, 16-year-old [[Patty Duke]] starred in ''[[The Miracle Worker (1962 film)|The Miracle Worker]]'' and in 1963, was nominated for and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the film, becoming the youngest actress at the time to win an Academy Award of merit and, for the first time, demonstrating that a juvenile could win in a competitive category.<ref name="Oscars.org 18">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/35th.html |title=35th Academy Awards - Winners |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094246/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/35th-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> From this point onward, child actors were recognized in competitive categories alongside their adult counterparts, or not at all.<ref name="TV Guide"/>

{{as of|2022}}, a total of three minors (including Duke) have won Oscars, all in the Best Supporting Actress category. The other two are [[Tatum O'Neal]], who was 10, for ''[[Paper Moon (film)|Paper Moon]]'' (1973), and [[Anna Paquin]], who was 11, for ''[[The Piano]]'' (1993). {{as of|2022}}, O'Neal remains the [[List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees|youngest person]] to win a competitive Academy Award.

==Lost, stolen and found==
===Lost Garland award===
[[Judy Garland]] had reportedly lost her award over the years, and in June 1958 contacted the academy to obtain a replacement at her own expense.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="Los Angeles Times 3">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-27-mn-11104-story.html|title=Academy Sues for Garland Oscar|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=Dan|last=Whitcomb|date=August 27, 2000|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308123659/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/27/news/mn-11104|archive-date=March 8, 2014}}</ref>  The academy obliged, but asked Garland to sign its well-known [[right of first refusal]] agreement covering the duplicate Oscar as well as her original, should it ever turn up.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/>  The agreement, put into implementation by the academy in 1950, states that Oscar recipients or their heirs who want to sell their statuettes must first offer the academy the opportunity to buy the Oscar back for the sum of $10. (An amount which was subsequently dropped to $1 in the 1980s.)<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="Los Angeles Times 3"/>

After her death in 1969, many of Garland's personal effects came into the possession of her former husband, [[Sidney Luft]] who attempted to sell a miniature Oscar statuette at a [[Christie's]] auction in 1993.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="New York Mag">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VMAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26|title=Garland Oscar Auction|date=November 1, 1993|work=New York Magazine}}</ref>  Upon learning of the impending auction, the academy quickly filed a legal injunction to halt the sale of the Award and, after some research, determined that the statuette in question was Garland's 1958 replacement Oscar, using photographs that showed the original 1940 statuette's unique base differed from the one being put up for auction.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="Orlando Sentinel">{{cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1993/12/20/garlands-oz-oscar-pulled-from-list-of-auction-items/|title=Garland Oscar Pulled from Auction|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=OrlandoSentinel.com|date=December 20, 1993 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002065709/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-12-20/news/9312200294_1_garland-oscar-academy|archive-date=October 2, 2012}}</ref>  The courts ruled in the academy's favor in 1995 and ordered Luft to return the 1958 statuette to the academy; prompting Luft to instead turn the award over to daughter [[Lorna Luft]] who had expressed a desire to keep it in the family.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/>

In 2000, a second statuette was put up for auction, which the academy determined this time to be Garland's long-lost "original" 1940 Oscar.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="Hollywood.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywood.com/news/EXTRA_The_Case_of_Judys_MIA_Oscar/312563|title=The Case of Judy's MIA Oscar|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=Hollywood.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004044707/http://www.hollywood.com/news/EXTRA_The_Case_of_Judys_MIA_Oscar/312563|archive-date=October 4, 2012}}</ref>  After once again tracing the auction back to Sidney Luft, the academy again took legal action to halt the sale claiming the 1940 statuette fell under the terms of the agreement Garland had signed in 1958.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/><ref name="Hollywood.com"/>  The academy again won its lawsuit in 2002 and Luft was ordered to turn the 1940 statuette over to the academy.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 2"/>  In February 2010, Garland's original 1940 Juvenile Oscar was put on display to the public at an exhibit held by the academy in New York City called "Meet The Oscars".<ref name="Oscars.org 19">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/meettheoscars.html |title=Meet The Oscars, New York |access-date=July 12, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706085044/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/meettheoscars.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  {{as of|2020}}, its 1958 replacement is believed to still be in the possession of Garland's heirs.<ref name="Variety2"/><ref name="Variety3"/><ref name="Variety"/><ref name="All Business">{{cite web|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/services/legal-services/4468396-1.html|title=Protecting Oscar From Legal Trouble|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=AllBusiness.com}}</ref>

===Stolen O'Brien award===
Throughout her childhood, [[Margaret O'Brien]]'s awards were displayed in a special room.  One day in 1954, the family's maid asked to take O'Brien's Juvenile Oscar and two other awards home with her to polish, as she had done in the past.<ref name="LA Times 1">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-07-mn-39699-story.html|title=Fairy Tale End for Stolen Oscar|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|first=Nora|last=Zamichow|date=March 7, 1995|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107132838/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-07/news/mn-39699_1_oscar-statuette|archive-date=November 7, 2012}}</ref>  After three days, the maid failed to return to work, prompting O'Brien's mother to discharge her, requesting that the awards be returned.<ref name="Hollywoodland 1"/>  Shortly thereafter, O'Brien's mother, who had been sick with a heart condition, suffered a relapse and died.<ref name="LA Times 1"/> In mourning, 17-year-old O'Brien forgot about the maid and the Oscar until several months later when she tried to contact her, only to find that the maid had moved and had left no forwarding address.<ref name="Hollywoodland 1"/><ref name="LA Times 1"/>

Several years later, upon learning that the original had been stolen, the academy promptly supplied O'Brien with a replacement Oscar, but O'Brien still held onto hope that she might one day recover her original Award.<ref name="Hollywoodland 1"/><ref name="LA Times 1"/>  In the years that followed, O'Brien attended memorabilia shows and searched antique shops, hoping she might find the original statuette, until one day in 1995 when Bruce Davis, then executive director of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|Academy]], was alerted that a miniature statuette bearing O'Brien's name had surfaced in a catalogue for an upcoming memorabilia auction.<ref name="LA Times 1"/>  Davis contacted a mutual friend of his and O'Brien's, who in turn phoned O'Brien to tell her the long-lost Oscar had been found.<ref name="Hollywoodland 1"/><ref name="LA Times 1"/>

Memorabilia collectors Steve Neimand and Mark Nash were attending a flea market in 1995 when Neimand spotted a small Oscar with Margaret O'Brien's name inscribed upon it.<ref name="SF Gate">{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Actress-Gets-Stolen-Oscar-Back-3046489.php|title=Actress Gets Stolen Oscar Back|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=SFGate.com|date=June 23, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119021251/http://articles.sfgate.com/1995-02-09/entertainment/17795084_1_oscar-outstanding-child-actress-steve-neimand|archive-date=January 19, 2012}}</ref>  The two men decided to split the $500 asking price hoping to resell it at a profit and lent it to a photographer to shoot for an upcoming auction catalogue.<ref name="LA Times 1"/>  This led to Bruce Davis' discovery that the statuette had resurfaced and, upon learning of the award's history, Nash and Neimand agreed to return the Oscar to O'Brien.<ref name="LA Times 1"/>  On February 7, 1995, almost fifty years after she had first received it, the academy held a special ceremony in Beverly Hills to return the stolen award to O'Brien.<ref name="LA Times 1"/><ref name="SF Gate"/> Upon being reunited with her Juvenile Oscar, Margaret O'Brien told the attending journalists:<ref name="Hollywoodland 2">{{cite web|url=http://allanellenberger.com/book-flm-news/margaret-obriens-stolen-oscar/|title=Margaret O'Brien's Stolen Oscar|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=Hollywoodland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729123346/http://allanellenberger.com/book-flm-news/margaret-obriens-stolen-oscar/|archive-date=July 29, 2012}}</ref>{{blockquote|For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you'll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me.}}

===Stolen Mills award===
[[Hayley Mills]] was in California filming a [[Good Morning, Miss Bliss|television series in the late 1980s]]. When she returned home to London, her Oscar was gone. As Mills was the last person to win a miniature Oscar, she was told the mold had been broken and a new one could not be made. In 2022, Academy president [[David Rubin (casting director)|David Rubin]] surprised Mills with a full sized replacement Oscar statuette.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Feinberg |first1=Scott |title=Film Academy Surprises Legendary Child Star Hayley Mills by Replacing Her Stolen Oscar |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-academy-surprises-hayley-mills-by-replacing-her-lost-oscar-1235073402/ |access-date=12 January 2022 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=11 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Aquilina |first1=Tyler |title=The Academy gifted former child star Hayley Mills a replacement for her stolen Oscar |url=https://ew.com/awards/oscars/academy-gives-hayley-mills-replacement-oscar/ |access-date=12 January 2022 |issue=11 January 2022 |publisher=Entertainment Weekly}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Academy Award]] (Oscar)
* [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS)
* [[Child actor]]
* [[Honorary Academy Award]]
* [[List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees]]
* [[Young Artist Award]]

==References==
{{Reflist|colwidth=90em}}

==External links==
* [https://www.oscars.org/oscars/awards-databases-0 Official Awards Databases] at the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] 

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