Fourth. Mickey's Christmas Carol, The Prince and the Pauper and Runaway Brain were the other ones.PatrickvD wrote:To be fair, There are barely any new Mickey Mouse Shorts. This is, what, the second in 30 years or so?
But I agree with you, Patrick, that the new rules doesn't help the smaller films. Sure, the Academy will send a DVD with all of the nominees, but that doesn't mean they will watch them. The reason they closed the voting, as you said, is because one year most of the voters picked the one American nominee due to not having seen any of the nominated shorts.
It will be like back when in the 40s and 50s when Tom & Jerry won seven times (I feel most of those were deserved, but my point still stands).