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20-638: The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 11th Academy Awards in 1939 but lost to Ferdinand the Bull , another short by Disney. In 1994, it was listed as the 26th greatest cartoon of all time by members of the animation field in a list compiled for the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons . During the Middle Ages in Europe, a king is seeking a brave warrior to kill

40-474: A giant who has been terrorizing his small kingdom. There is much discussion in the village, but no one is willing to take on the task. While this is happening, a young peasant tailor (Mickey Mouse) kills seven flies at once while at his work. He unknowingly interrupts a conversation among several other peasants about the problems with the giant to brag loudly about his accomplishment: Gossip that Mickey has killed seven giants with one blow quickly spreads around

60-479: A Day , on DVD releases of The Sword in the Stone and was included in the 2018 Celebrating Mickey Blu-ray/DVD/Digital combo compilation and in the 2023 Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts - Volume 1 Blu-ray/DVD/Digital combo compilation. The short is also available to stream on Disney+ , unrestored version. Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

80-420: A cart of pumpkins and eats them, as if they were grapes, with increasing handfuls until he dumps the rest into his mouth. Mickey, who was hiding in the cart with the pumpkins, keeps himself from being swallowed with them by clinging to the giant's uvula, which gives the giant a case of the hiccups. To remedy this, the giant pulls a water well from the ground and drinks from it as though it were a thermos, and Mickey

100-535: A full name as Minerva Mouse, for the four-month comic strip story "The Gleam". De Maris also wrote for the Silly Symphony comic strip from December 1937 to October 1942, writing the comic strip adaptations of the feature films Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Pinocchio and Bambi . In 1943, De Maris abandoned a half-finished outline for a Donald Duck comic book story. The publisher gave

120-550: A second statuette may be awarded." Only American films were nominated for the award until the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) was nominated for The Romance of Transportation in Canada in 1952. The first non-English-language international short to win was Zagreb Film 's Ersatz (The Substitute) in 1961. The first film to win in this category was Flowers and Trees by Walt Disney , who has since held

140-521: Is Nick Park , with three wins: 1 for Creature Comforts and 2 for the Wallace & Gromit series. The Academy defines short as being "not more than 40 minutes, including all credits." Fifteen films are shortlisted before nominations are announced. In the listings below, the title shown in boldface was the winner of the award in that given year, followed by the other nominees for that year. All bars that are highlighted yellow were winners—with

160-481: Is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards , or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1931–32, to the present. From 1932 until 1970, the category was known as Short Subjects, Cartoons ; and from 1971 to 1973 as Short Subjects, Animated Films . The present title began with the 46th Awards in 1974. During

180-433: Is holding out for a bigger payday and offers him increasingly vast riches and then (at her suggestion) the hand of his only daughter, Princess Minnie , in marriage if he can kill, or at least subdue, the giant. Smitten with Minnie, Mickey proclaims he'll "cut [the giant] down to my size" and sets off. When the gates of the town close behind him, however, his confidence fails him and he wants to turn back, but he sees Minnie and

200-436: Is saved from drowning in the giant's stomach by getting caught by the well's bucket. The reprieve is short-lived, however, as the giant almost immediately grabs the haystack in which Mickey seeks refuge and rolls it into a cigarette, and then to light it, lifts off the roof of a nearby house to get its stove so he can use it like a lighter. He then leans on a silo to relax. The smoke makes Mickey sneeze, which finally brings him to

220-520: The Giant which featured Mickey encountering the same giant as the one in this short. This version was somewhat more faithful to the original fairy tale, maintaining that the tailor fools the giant by apparently beating him in feats of strength. The short was released on December 4, 2001 as part of Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color . It was also featured, along with A Knight for

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240-449: The attention of the giant. The giant, after getting poked in the nose with a pair of scissors, attempts to squash Mickey, but misses. Mickey lures the giant into reaching under his sleeves and quickly produces a needle and thread and binds the giant's arms. He then lassos the giant's nose, pulls it up and ties it to his hair, preventing him from opening his eyes, before swinging around him and then tripping him. The giant falls down, crushing

260-528: The category's record for most nominations (39) and most wins (12). MGM 's Tom and Jerry (1940–67) is the category's most lauded animated series over all, being nominated for a total of 13 Oscars and winning 7. Warner Bros. 's Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies series also had a big amount of 16 Oscar nominations and winning 5. Among international studios, the NFB has the most wins in this category, with 6 Oscars. The biggest showing from Britain in this category

280-415: The fictional director of the short. Goofy also appears in these scenes and, after the wrap he is wearing the same clothes he wore in the short film The Whalers , which was released the month before Tailor . The story was written by Merrill De Maris and drawn by Manuel Gonzales and Floyd Gottfredson , with inking by Ted Thwaites. In 1985, Bantam Books published a children's book called Mickey Meets

300-399: The first 5 decades of the award's existence, awards were presented to the producers of the shorts. Current Academy rules, however, call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film." Moreover, "[i]n the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions,

320-428: The ground where he lands and sending a chunk of earth into the air, that falls on his head and knocks him out. After a sigh of relief, Mickey dusts his hands triumphantly. Following the giant's defeat, an amusement park is built on the site of the battle. The carnival rides are powered, via a series of belts and gears connected to a windmill, by wind from the snoring giant, who is chained to the ground. The film ends with

340-474: The king and a newly married Mickey and Minnie enjoying a ride on the carousel. From August 28 to November 27, 1938, the Mickey Mouse comic strip published 14 Sunday newspaper comics retelling the story under the title The Brave Little Tailor . This version was bookended by segments showing the "real" Mickey Mouse as an actor who is cast by Walt Disney to appear in the film. The comic has Mac MacCorker as

360-422: The kingdom. The king summons him and asks if he really "killed seven at one blow". He goes into an elaborate retelling of how he killed the seven (flies, not giants as the king believes), which impresses the king enough to appoint him "Royal High Killer of the Giant". On discovering the misunderstanding, all of Mickey's confidence disappears, and he attempts to stammer his way out of the assignment. The king thinks he

380-666: The title and name shown in boldface. For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge: The following is a list of animation studios or animators that earned multiple nominations and awards in this category. Merrill De Maris Merrill De Maris (February 26, 1898, New Jersey – December 31, 1948, Escondido, California ) was an American writer who worked on Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate . De Maris helped Floyd Gottfredson with many of his early Mickey Mouse comic strips ; they co-created famous characters like Phantom Blot , Chief O'Hara and Detective Casey . In 1942, they gave Minnie Mouse

400-410: The townspeople cheering him on from the walls and decides to soldier on. "Gosh", Mickey sighs to himself later, sitting in a field of a deserted countryside wondering what to do. Just then, the giant appears, forcing Mickey to scramble for a place to hide as the giant's feet crush rocks, trees and buildings, and causes nearby local animals to flee as he walks, until he stops to sit on a barn. He picks up

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