The original Tom and Jerry shorts won 7 Academy Awards.
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera’s MGM theatrical shorts won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons seven times between 1943 and 1953. The winning cartoons were The Yankee Doodle Mouse, Mouse Trouble, Quiet Please!, The Cat Concerto, The Little Orphan, The Two Mouseketeers, and Johann Mouse.
The series’ first short, Puss Gets the Boot, was nominated but did not win. It lost to another MGM production, The Milky Way. This is a common source of confusion because the first cartoon received an Oscar nomination, while the later Hanna-Barbera run accumulated the seven victories.
The seven-award total refers to the classic theatrical shorts, not every later Tom and Jerry television series, feature film, or direct-to-video production. The total also tied Tom and Jerry with Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies for the most wins in that category at the time.