Editing Academy Juvenile Award (section)

=== 1940s ===
[[File:Meet-Me-in-St-Louis-LIFE-1944.jpg|thumb|[[Margaret O'Brien]] with [[Judy Garland]] in ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]'' (1944)]]
[[File:Wyman Jarman Jr. Peck 1946.jpg|thumb|[[Claude Jarman Jr.]] with [[Jane Wyman]] and [[Gregory Peck]] in ''[[The Yearling (1946 film)|The Yearling]]'' (1946)]]

The [[17th Academy Awards|17th Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Margaret O'Brien]] with the Juvenile Award honoring her as "outstanding child actress of 1944".<ref name="Oscars.org 4"/>  That year, 7-year-old O'Brien had become one of the most popular child actresses of her day, starring in the films ''[[The Canterville Ghost (1944 film)|The Canterville Ghost]]'', ''[[Music for Millions]]'', and ''[[Meet Me In St. Louis]]'' alongside former Juvenile Award Honoree Judy Garland.  Hosting the Annual ceremony that year was [[Bob Hope]] who dubbed the Juvenile Award the "Oscarette" upon presenting O'Brien with her miniature Oscar.<ref name="Hollywoodland 1"/>

The [[18th Academy Awards|18th Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Peggy Ann Garner]] with the Juvenile Award honoring her as "outstanding child actress of 1945".<ref name="Oscars.org 5">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/18th.html |title=18th Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072912/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/18th.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  Beginning her prolific film career at the age of six, in 1945, 13-year-old Garner appeared in ''[[Nob Hill (1945 film)|Nob Hill]]'' and ''[[Junior Miss (film)|Junior Miss]]'', as well as receiving critical acclaim for her dramatic role as Francie Nolan, a girl living in the Brooklyn slums with her devoted mother and alcoholic father in the [[20th Century Fox]] drama, ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]''.<ref name="Los Angeles Times 5">{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/412374561.html?dids=412374561:412374561&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+29%2C+1945&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=A+Star+Grows+In+Hollywood&pqatl=google|title=A Star Grows in Hollywood|date=April 29, 1945|work=Los Angeles Times|first=James F|last=Denton|access-date=July 5, 2017|archive-date=November 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107102635/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/412374561.html?dids=412374561:412374561&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+29,+1945&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=A+Star+Grows+In+Hollywood&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[19th Academy Awards|19th Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Claude Jarman Jr.]] with the Juvenile Award honoring him as "outstanding child actor of 1946".<ref name="Oscars.org 6">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/19th.html |title=19th Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072927/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/19th.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  Twelve&nbsp;years old in 1946, Jarman was honored with the Juvenile Oscar for his screen debut as Jody in the [[MGM]] family drama, ''[[The Yearling (film)|The Yearling]]'', which was presented to him by former recipient [[Shirley Temple]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Claude Jarman, Jr.|work=Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database|url=http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/019-7/|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=December 18, 2019}}</ref> Although the academy did not officially begin to present the Juvenile Award for a child's work in a specific film until two years later, ''The Yearling'' was Jarman's first and only film released in 1946.

The [[21st Academy Awards|21st Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Ivan Jandl]] with the Juvenile Award honoring him for "the outstanding juvenile performance of 1948, as 'Karel Malik' in ''"[[The Search]]"''.<ref name="Oscars.org 7">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/21st.html |title=21st Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072955/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/21st.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  Born in [[Czechoslovakia]], and beginning his relatively brief film career in 1948 at the age of eleven, Jandl was the first foreign child actor to be honored with the Juvenile Oscar.  Unable to travel to the [[United States]] to attend the ceremony, Jandl's statuette was instead presented to him in his native [[Prague]].<ref name="Los Angeles Times 4">{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/418300281.html?dids=418300281%3A418300281&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE%3AAI&type=historic&date=May+15%2C+1949&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Boy+Actor%27s+Oscar+Given+Czech+Envoy&pqatl=google|title=Boy Actor's Oscar Given Czech Envoy|date=May 15, 1949|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 5, 2017|archive-date=January 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112205901/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/418300281.html?dids=418300281%3A418300281&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE%3AAI&type=historic&date=May+15%2C+1949&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Boy+Actor%27s+Oscar+Given+Czech+Envoy&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[22nd Academy Awards|22nd Annual Academy Awards]] recognized [[Bobby Driscoll]] with the Juvenile Award honoring him as "the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949".<ref name="Oscars.org 8">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/22nd.html |title=22nd Academy Awards |access-date=July 6, 2011 |work=Oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706072958/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/22nd.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>  That year, 12-year-old Driscoll had starred in the [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]] tear-jerker ''[[So Dear to My Heart]]'', as well as garnering critical acclaim for his dramatic performance in the [[RKO Pictures|RKO]] melodrama ''[[The Window (1949 film)|The Window]]''. Demonstrating the prestige the Honorary Juvenile Award held for Hollywood child stars of the time, on the night of the ceremony, Driscoll nervously accepted his miniature statuette saying, "I don't ever think I've been so thrilled in my life."<ref name="Archive.org">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/AcademyAwardsCeremonies|title=22nd Academy Awards Radio Broadcast|access-date=July 12, 2011|work=Archive.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228183636/https://archive.org/details/AcademyAwardsCeremonies|archive-date=February 28, 2014}}</ref>