Special Honorary Academy Award for performers under the age of 18
Academy Juvenile Award
Bobby Driscoll accepting the Juvenile Award
Awarded for
Academy Honorary Award presented for "Outstanding Juvenile Performance"
Country
United States
Presented by
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
First awarded
February 27, 1935
Last awarded
April 17, 1961
Website
www.Oscars.org
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 and Sciences (AMPAS) to specifically recognize juvenile performers under the age of eighteen for their "outstanding contribution[s] to screen entertainment".[1][2]
The honor was first awarded by the academy at the 7th Academy Awards to 6-year-old Shirley Temple for her work in motion pictures of 1934.[2] 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 film Pollyanna.[3]
The trophy itself was a miniature Academy Award statuette standing an estimated seven inches tall (depending upon variations to its base over time),[2][4][5][6][7] approximately half the height of the standard 13.5 inch tall Oscar trophy.[8]
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