Judy faces liquidation, bankruptcy, and the sale of the institution.Tony suggests to Judy that one the sanitarium""s rich patients - hypochondriac/socialite Mrs.Emily Upjohn (Margaret Dumont), might be able to help.Meanwhile, the indignant Mrs.Upjohn is about to leave the hospital because her doctor can find nothing wrong with her, although she claims she is on the verge of a nervous collapse.It was the first animated film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, a new category.The film lost both the Best Director and Best Picture awards to Robert Redford""sOrdinary People (1980).Rather than the extreme punishment of expulsion, they both received detention.Once they were ensconced in their studies, they learned about repotting living Mandrake roots from Professor Sprout in Greenhouse Three, and were introduced to their new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher - Professor Gilderoy Lockhart - who showed them freshly-caught although mischievous blue Cornish Pixies.