Region 2 DVD release, now out of print). Several of his cartoons were released on VHS, in four volumes of Tex Avery's Screwball Classics, two VHS Droopy collections, and various inclusions on MGM animation collection releases, with many gags left in that had been edited out for television. Avery's Droopy cartoons are available on the DVD set Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection. The seven Droopy cartoons produced in CinemaScope were included here in their original widescreen versions (letter-boxed), instead of the pan and scan versions regularly broadcast on television. Also, some of his works could be found on home video releases (from VHS to Blu-ray) of Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts, and the same is true of his few Lantz Studio cartoons included in the DVD set The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection. Just like with the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, first awarded to Forrest J Ackerman in 1984 and the Friz Freleng Lifetime Achievement of Excellence, first award to Isadore Freleng himself in 1994, The Texas Avery Award, first awarded to Brad Bird in 2005, 25 years after Avery's death. First presented by the Deep Ellum Film Festival, it is now presented by Reel FX. Notable recipients include Henry Selick, Pete Docter, Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders for How to Train Your Dragon, John Kricfalusi for his contributions to the animation industry, and Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Avery is honored by Texas Historical Marker #17073, which was unveiled in his hometown of Taylor, Texas in 2014. The marker says Avery spent "a lifetime...reinventing the American cartoon." In February 2020, Warner Archive released Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1 on Blu-ray containing 19 of his MGM cartoons. The shorts are not presented in chronological order, because according to Jerry Beck, most of MGM's pre-1951 cartoons had their original negatives destroyed in a 1965 vault fire – causing massive difficulties in terms of restoration. However, using the best surviving archival elements, all 19 shorts on the set have been digitally restored in HD and are presented completely uncut. In March 2020, Warner Archive announced they were working on Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 2, which was released in December 2020 and contained 21 restored and uncut shorts as well as Tex Avery: The King of Cartoons, an archival documentary as a special feature. Volume 3 was released on October 5, 2021, with an