The 1960s saw some creative sparks in the theatrical film medium, in particular from DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. Their first and most successful project was animating the opening titles for the 1964 film, "The Pink Panther", starring Peter Sellers. The film and its animated sequences were so successful that United Artists commissioned the studio to produce a Pink Panther cartoon series. The first short, "The Pink Phink", won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film of 1964. The studio also produced other successful cartoon series such as "The Inspector" and "The Ant and the Aardvark".