This is my third review of an Oscar-nominated cartoon for 1958 having previously done the same for Art Bartsch's Sidney's Family Tree and Les Clark's Paul Bunyan. When I was a pre-teen kid of the mid-'70s, one of the Saturday morning shows I enjoyed watching was "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour". And during the show's intro, the announcer would always say, "Starring that Oscar-winning rabbit Bugs Bunny". This was actually the first cartoon I saw on that program but it wasn't until years later that I found out this was what finally got Bugs his Academy Award after losing on his previous noms of A Wild Hare (which was Bugs' debut and directed by Tex Avery) and Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (which, like this short, was helmed by Friz Freleng). Anyway, Bugs is a court jester in King Arthur's court who reluctantly gets assigned to retrieve The Singing Sword from The Black Knight after Arthur's knights all literally chicken out. Yosemite Sam is The Black Knight and he has a dragon who keeps accidentally sneezing fire to Sam's consternation! I'll just now say this was very funny stuff and compared to the other nominees that year was the most entertaining. So Knighty Knight Bugs is most highly recommended. P. S. The man who accepted the award at the Oscars was John W. Burton who had succeeded Edward Selzer as producer at the WB cartoon studio. Selzer had accepted the other Oscars in previous years but this turned out to be the only time Burton did as no more WB cartoons won after this year and John would leave the studio a few years later to be an executive at Pacific Art and Title which was founded by Leon Schlesinger who was the founder of the WB cartoon studio when it was originally named after him.