Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of theatrical short films created in 1940, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera that centred on a never-ending rivalry between its two title characters, Tom and Jerry, whose chases each other and battles often involved slapstick comedy and comic violence.

Hanna and Barbera wrote, produced, and directed one hundred and fourteen Tom and Jerry shorts at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in Hollywood, California, U.S.A., between 1940 and 1957, when the animation unit was closed.

The original Tom and Jerry series is notable for having won the Academy Award for the Best Animated Short Film seven times, tying it with Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies as the theatrical animated cartoon series with the most Oscars.