The Academy Juvenile Award, also known informally as the Juvenile Oscar, was a Special Honorary Academy Award bestowed at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
Bobby Driscoll accepting the Juvenile Award
Shirley Temple with James Dunn in Bright Eyes (1934)
Judy Garland with canine co-star Terry in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Margaret O'Brien with Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Robert Cletus Driscoll was an American actor who performed on film and television. He starred in some of the Walt Disney Studios' best-known live-action pictures of that period: Song of the South, So
Academy Juvenile Award
…United States to attend the ceremony, Jandl's statuette was instead presented to him in his native Prague. The 22nd Annual Academy Awards recognized Bobby Driscoll with the Juvenile Award honoring him as "the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949". That year, 12-year-old Driscoll had starred in the Disney tear-jerker…
Driscoll in The Fighting Sullivans (1944), his debut film
Driscoll in February 1946
Driscoll as Peter Pan in The Walt Disney Christmas Show