Best Oscar^® pictures featuring dogs and cats

With the Academy Awards® soon approaching, bets are being placed in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories, but only people have been nominated for these roles so far. The closest a dog has come to being nominated was before the 2012 Academy Awards^®, when the campaign "Consider Uggie" was launched to support the Parson Russell Terrier who starred in The Artist. 

So, until pets get formally recognized by the Academy, we'd like to raise a toast to a few of our favorite Oscar-winning performances.

Best Dog: Hooch. A dogue de Bordeaux named Hooch starred as the crime-fighting partner in Turner and Hooch. Hooch offered both a comedic and dramatic performance and served up plenty of drool.

Best Cat: There are several outstanding cat performances in the Harry Potter series of movies; however, our picks in the Best Cat category go to Mrs. Norris, the Maine coon of Argus Filch, caretaker of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and Crookshank, the ginger Persian belonging to Hermione.

Best Supporting Dog: Toto, one of the most famous Cairn terriers ever, was Dorothy's dog and faithful travel companion in The Wizard of Oz.

Best Supporting Cat: The tabby without a name, known as "cat," who played Holly Golightly's friend in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Best Ensemble: Chance, Sassy and Shadow—A bulldog, Himalayan cat and golden retriever who embark on a long journey to reach home and their beloved owners in the movie Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.

Best Animated Cat: Garfield, a method actor like no other cat, plays a sometimes comedic and often dramatic role in Garfield: The Movie.

Best Animated Dog: Lady, the sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel and Tramp, a streetwise downtown mutt, co-star in the classic love story about two star-crossed lovers, Lady and the Tramp. 


We’d love to know which pets you’d vote for if the Academy Awards^® gave Oscars^® to the best pet purrrformances.