"earning a net profit of $28.5 million. Walt Disney used his huge profits from the film to purchase land in central Florida and finance the construction of Walt Disney World. ""Mary Poppins"" is widely considered to be Walt Disney's ""crowning achievement"". It was the only film of Disney's to garner a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars in his lifetime. The film also inspired the eighth season episode of ""The Simpsons"" entitled ""Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"", featuring a parody of Mary called ""Shary Bobbins"" who helps out the Simpson family after Marge loses her hair due to stress, and spoofs of the"
"the 1960s, Walt Disney's current animated films (""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"", ""The Sword in the Stone"", the live-action/animated combo ""Mary Poppins"", and ""The Jungle Book"") generated hefty revenue for the studio, as did the regular reissues of earlier animated films. ""Poppins"", in particular, won five Academy Awards (and received with the studio's first Best Picture nomination) and topped the 1964 box office charts while launching the film career of its star, Julie Andrews, who won an Oscar. ""Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color"", now on NBC, became a Sunday night television institution that kept Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy,"
"process to transfer the drawings to animation cels. Disney's live-action releases were spread across a number of genres, including historical fiction (""Johnny Tremain"", 1957), adaptations of children's books (""Pollyanna"", 1960) and modern-day comedies (""The Shaggy Dog"", 1959). Disney's most successful film of the 1960s was a live action/animated musical adaptation of ""Mary Poppins"", which was one of the all-time highest-grossing movies and received five Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Julie Andrews and Best Song for Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman for ""Chim Chim Cher-ee"". The theme park design and architectural group became so integral to the Disney"
"or aesthetically significant"": ""Steamboat Willie"", ""The Three Little Pigs"", ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", ""Fantasia"", ""Pinocchio"", ""Bambi"" and ""Mary Poppins"". In 1998, the American Film Institute published a list of the 100 greatest American films, according to industry experts; the list included ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (at number 49), and ""Fantasia"" (at 58). In February 1960, Disney was inducted to the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two stars, one for motion pictures and the other for his television work; Mickey Mouse was given his own star for motion pictures in 1978. Disney was also inducted into the"
"""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), ""Pinocchio"", ""Fantasia"" (both 1940), ""Dumbo"" (1941), and ""Bambi"" (1942), furthered the development of animated film. New animated and live-action films followed after World War II, including the critically successful ""Cinderella"" (1950) and ""Mary Poppins"" (1964), the latter of which received five Academy Awards. In the 1950s, Disney expanded into the amusement park industry, and in 1955 he opened Disneyland. To fund the project he diversified into television programs, such as ""Walt Disney's Disneyland"" and ""The Mickey Mouse Club""; he was also involved in planning the 1959 Moscow Fair, the 1960 Winter Olympics, and"
"Academy Awards, most notably ""Beauty and the Beast"" which became the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, six of which won at least one Academy Award; and eight of the films were nominated for Annie Awards, with seven of them winning at least one: Disney Renaissance The Disney Renaissance refers to the decade from 1989 to 1999 during which Walt Disney Animation Studios returned to producing critically and commercially successful animated films that were mostly based on well-known stories, much like the studio did during the era of Walt Disney during the 1930s,"
"for accusations of racial stereotyping. In 1950, Disney produced ""Cinderella"". ""Cinderella"" was an enormous success, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1950, and became Disney's most successful film since ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" and Disney's first single narrative feature film since ""Bambi"". Disney's company started to diversify, producing live-action feature films beginning with ""Treasure Island"" (1950) and nature documentaries of which ""Seal Island"" (1948) was the first. Due to this, Walt Disney was needed on several different units at one time and was spending less time on animation, although he was always present at story-meetings. In 1951, he released"
"a string of package films with the idea of adapting Charles Perrault's ""Cendrillon"" into a motion picture. It is the first Disney film in which all of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators. After two years in production, ""Cinderella"" was finally released on February 15, 1950. It became the greatest critical and commercial hit for the studio since ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937) and helped reverse the studio's fortunes. It is considered one of the best American animated films ever made, as selected by the American Film Institute. It received three Academy Award nominations, including"
"Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1961), ""The Sword in the Stone"" (1963), and ""The Jungle Book"" (1967). Disney first became interested in live-action films as a means of using financial reserves which had built up in Britain, and could not be repatriated owing to exchange controls, by making two films from Scottish and English sources. These were ""Treasure Island"" (1950) and ""The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men"" (1952), which were both successes at the box office. The studio continued to draw on British source material for its animated films after Walt Disney's death in 1967, with the cartoon"
"animated film in CinemaScope) in 1955, ""Sleeping Beauty"" (the first animated film in Technirama 70 mm film) in 1959, ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (the first animated feature film to use Xerox cels) in 1961, and ""The Sword in the Stone"" in 1963. In 1964, Disney produced ""Mary Poppins"", based on the book series by P. L. Travers; he had been trying to acquire the rights to the story since the 1940s. It became the most successful Disney film of the 1960s, although Travers disliked the film intensely and regretted having sold the rights. The same year he also became"
"first film from Walt Disney Animation Studios to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. They also had critical and commercial success with Oscar winner ""Big Hero 6"", ""Zootopia"" and ""Moana"" alongside (following in Pixar's footsteps) their own animated shorts ""Feast"" and ""Paperman""; the latter shown before ""Wreck It Ralph"". Other studios attempted to get into the CGI game. After ending its relationship with Don Bluth, 20th Century Fox released a hugely successful CGI-animated feature in early 2002 entitled ""Ice Age"". Also in 2002, Paramount offered """", TWC offered ""Hoodwinked!"" in 2005, and Columbia produced ""Open Season"" in"
"a Mockingbird"" (1962) and ""Oliver!"" (1968), directed by Carol Reed, portrayed children as naturally innocent. Other films of the 1960s that involved children include ""The Sound of Music"" (1965) by Robert Wise and ""The Miracle Worker"" (1962). These were very successful musical motion picture that were in the genre of family films. Four of the top ten highest-grossing films of the decade were family films: ""The Sound of Music"", ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1961), ""The Jungle Book"" (1967), and ""Mary Poppins"". Hollywood also released motion pictures starring children though these were not commercially successful and they were literary adaptations"
"in the films. 1988's ""Oliver & Company"" had served as a test of sorts to the success of the musical format before Disney committed to the Broadway-style structure of ""The Little Mermaid"". In January 1990, ""The Little Mermaid"" earned three Academy Award nominations, making it the first Disney animated film to earn an Academy Award nomination since ""The Rescuers"" in 1977. The film won two of the awards, for Best Song (""Under the Sea"") and Best Score. The film also earned four Golden Globe nominations, including Best Picture—Comedy or Musical, and won the awards for Best Song (""Under the Sea"")"
"Company to re-brand the Mickey Mouse character by moving away from his current squeaky clean image and reintroducing the mischievous side of his personality. Mickey Mouse has received ten nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. These are ""Mickey's Orphans"" (1931), ""Building a Building"" (1933), ""Brave Little Tailor"" (1938), ""The Pointer"" (1939), ""Lend a Paw"" (1941), ""Squatter's Rights"" (1946), ""Mickey and the Seal"" (1948), ""Mickey's Christmas Carol"" (1983), ""Runaway Brain"" (1995), and ""Get a Horse!"" (2013). Among these, ""Lend a Paw"" was the only film to actually win the award. Additionally, in 1932 Walt Disney received an"
"Disney Pictures studio. The division is known for having brought the works of M. Night Shyamalan to the theater; its most profitable film to date is Shyamalan's own breakout hit ""The Sixth Sense"", which grossed over $600 million worldwide upon its 1999 release. Because of the success of Disney's more-mature film division Touchstone Pictures, yet another Disney-related film label was established as Hollywood Pictures on February 1, 1989. Ricardo Mestres was appointed the division's first president, moving over from Touchstone Pictures. The division was created to create opportunities for up and coming executives and double its feature film output to"
"(1941), ""Went the Day Well?"" (1942), ""The Way Ahead"" (1944) and Noël Coward and David Lean's celebrated naval film ""In Which We Serve"" in 1942, which won a special Academy Award. These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's ""The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"" (1943), ""A Canterbury Tale"" (1944) and ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film ""Henry V"", based on the Shakespearean history ""Henry V"". The success of ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" allowed Disney to make more animated features like ""Pinocchio"" (1940), ""Fantasia"" (1940),"
"the Seven Dwarfs"" by Disney, ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Fleischer Studios, and ""Pinocchio"" (1940), also by Disney. All of these were loose adaptations of literary sources. After the war, Disney continued to make animated features that could be classified as family films given the scope of its content. According to Wojcik, the most important film adaptations of children's literature in the immediate post-World War II period were the motion pictures ""The Diary of Anne Frank"" by George Stevens (1959), ""Treasure Island"" (1950) by Byron Haskin and Luigi Comencini's 1952 motion picture ""Heidi"". In the 1960s, motion pictures such as ""To Kill"
"Original Score, earning an additional nomination for Best Original Song for ""Kiss the Girl."" ""The Rescuers Down Under"" was released one year later and was the first canon sequel produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film garnered mainly positive reception, but was not as financially successful as ""The Little Mermaid"". ""Beauty and the Beast"", often considered to be one of the greatest of all Disney animated features, followed in 1991. It was the first animated film nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, losing to ""The Silence of the Lambs"", and remains the only animated film nominated for"
"My Heart"" (1948) featured animated segments, while the ""True-Life Adventures"" series, which included such films as ""Seal Island"" (1948) and ""The Vanishing Prairie"" (1954), were also popular. Eight of the films in the series won Academy Awards. The release of ""Cinderella"" in 1950 proved that feature-length animation could still succeed in the marketplace. Other releases of the period included ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1951) and ""Peter Pan"" (1953), both in production before the war began, and Disney's first all-live action feature, ""Treasure Island"" (1950). Other early all-live-action Disney films included ""The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men"" (1952), ""The"
"year. This category is notable for giving Walt Disney 12 of his 22 Academy Awards, including a posthumous 1968 award, and also 10 of the first 11 awards awarded in the category. Only American films were nominated for the award until 1952 with NFB's ""The Romance of Transportation in Canada"". MGM's ""Tom and Jerry"" are the category's most lauded animated series, winning seven Oscars and being nominated for a total of 13. Among foreign studios, the National Film Board of Canada has the most wins in this category, with six Oscars. The biggest showing from Britain in this category is"
"The challenge was to create an animated musical film of this Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale that could sit alongside the Disney films ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" and ""Cinderella"". ""The Little Mermaid"" opened to critical and commercial success and signaled a new Disney era called the Disney Renaissance. The film gave them their first Oscar win: Best Song for the song ""Under the Sea"". Menken also won the 1989 Oscar for Best Score. Menken and Ashman's ""Beauty and the Beast"" garnered them three 1991 Oscar nominations for Best Song, winning for its title song. Menken won another Oscar"
"""Mary Poppins"" and ""The Jungle Book"", two of Disney's biggest hits of all time. The phenomenal box-office performance of ""The Sound of Music"" gave the major Hollywood studios more confidence to produce lengthy, large-budget musicals. Despite the resounding success of some of these films, Hollywood also produced a large number of musical flops in the late 1960s and early 1970s which appeared to seriously misjudge public taste. The commercially and/or critically unsuccessful films included ""Camelot"", ""Finian's Rainbow"", ""Hello Dolly!"", ""Sweet Charity"", ""Doctor Dolittle"", ""Star!"", ""Darling Lili"", ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"", ""Paint Your Wagon"", ""Song of Norway"", ""On a Clear Day You"
"preceding three Disney animated features: ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""Peter Pan"", and ""Lady and the Tramp"". The high production costs of ""Sleeping Beauty"", coupled with the underperformance of much of the rest of Disney's 1959–1960 release slate, resulted in the company posting its first annual loss in a decade for fiscal year 1960, and there were massive lay-offs throughout the animation department. Like ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1951), which was not initially successful either, ""Sleeping Beauty"" was never re-released theatrically in Walt Disney's lifetime. However, it had many re-releases in theaters over the decades. The film was re-released theatrically in 1970, where"
"1951, met with a lukewarm response at the box office and was a sharp critical disappointment in its initial release. ""Peter Pan"", released in 1953, was, on the other hand, a commercial success and the highest-grossing film of the year. In 1955, ""Lady and the Tramp"" was released to higher box office success than any other Disney feature from the studio since ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", earning an estimated $7.5 million in rentals at the North American box office in 1955. ""Lady"" is significant as Disney's first widescreen animated feature, produced in the CinemaScope process, and was the"
"the second biographical film to win Best Picture. Luise Rainer received the Academy Award for Best Actress for ""The Good Earth"", earning her the distinctions of being the first actor to win two Academy Awards and the first to win consecutive acting awards. ""A Star Is Born"" was the first color film to receive a Best Picture nomination. Walt Disney's ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", the world's first full-length Technicolor animated feature film with sound and widely seen as one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, received only one nomination (Best Score). In the following year, the"
"throughout the 1960s. In the U.S., a post-WW2 tendency toward questioning the establishment and societal norms and the early activism of the civil rights movement was reflected in Hollywood films such as ""Blackboard Jungle"" (1955), ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), Paddy Chayefsky's ""Marty"" and Reginald Rose's ""12 Angry Men"" (1957). Disney continued making animated films, notably; ""Cinderella"" (1950), ""Peter Pan"" (1953), ""Lady and the Tramp"" (1955), and ""Sleeping Beauty"" (1959). He began, however, getting more involved in live action films, producing classics like ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954), and ""Old Yeller"" (1957). Television began competing seriously with films projected in"
"by cartoons starring Mickey Mouse, Figaro, and in the 1950s, Chip 'n' Dale and Humphrey the Bear. In addition, Disney began reissuing the previous features, beginning with re-releases of ""Snow White"" in 1944, ""Pinocchio"" in 1945, and ""Fantasia"" in 1946. This led to a tradition of reissuing the Disney films every seven years, which lasted into the 1990s before being translated into the studio's handling of home video releases. In 1948, Disney returned to the production of full-length features with ""Cinderella"", a full-length film based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. At a cost of nearly $3 million, the"
"films topping the American Film Institute's AFI 100 list include Orson Welles's ""Citizen Kane"" (1941), which is frequently cited as the greatest film of all time, ""Casablanca"" (1942), ""The Godfather"" (1972), ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939), ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939), ""The Graduate"" (1967), ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Schindler's List"" (1993), ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), ""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1946) and ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950). The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, have been held annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1929, and the Golden Globe Awards have been held"
"films in ten ""classic"" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. ""Cinderella"" was acknowledged as the 9th greatest film in the animation genre. American Film Institute recognition: Cinderella (1950 film) Cinderella is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the fairy tale ""Cinderella"" by Charles Perrault, it is the twelfth Disney animated feature film. Directing credits go to Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wilfred Jackson. Songs were written by Mack David, Jerry Livingston, and Al Hoffman. Songs in the film include ""Cinderella"", ""A"
"with one. The telecast garnered more than 40 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 62nd Academy Awards were announced on February 14, 1990, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Karl Malden, president of the Academy, and the actress Geena Davis. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" received the most nominations with nine total; ""Born on the Fourth of July"" came in second with eight. Winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 26, 1990. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" became the third film to win Best Picture without a Best"
"(Main Title): ""The Wonderful World Of Disney"" (1968) - George Bruns 20. Zorro: ""Zorro"" (1957) - The Mellomen 21. Strummin' Song: Walt Disney anthology television series (1961) - Annette Funicello 22. Mister Piano Man: ""The Goldern Horseshoe Review"" (1962) - Annette Funicello 23. Duck Tales Theme: ""Duck Tales"" (1990) - Jeff Pescetto 24. Tale Spin Theme: ""Tail Spin"" (1990) - Jim Gilstrap 25. Meet Me Down On Main Street: Disneyland (1956) - The Mellomen 26. The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room: Disneyland (1963) - Wally Boag/Fulton Burley/Thurl Ravenscroft/The Mellomen 27. It's A Small World (After All): New York World's Fair (1964)"
"the Touchstone banner before it was retired by Disney from theatrical distribution. In December 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to purchase 21st Century Fox, which includes 20th Century Fox, for $52.4 billion. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has distributed 27 films that have received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture; four from Walt Disney Pictures, six from Touchstone Pictures, two from Hollywood Pictures, and fifteen from Miramax Films. Of those nominations, four Miramax films won the accolade; ""The English Patient"" (1996), ""Shakespeare In Love"" (1998), ""Chicago"" (2002), and ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007). Walt Disney"
"Pollyanna (1960 film) Pollyanna is a 1960 live action drama Walt Disney Productions feature film, starring child actress Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan, in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. Based on the novel ""Pollyanna"" (1913) by Eleanor H. Porter, the film was written and directed by David Swift. The film marks Mills's first of six films for Disney, and it won the actress an Academy Juvenile Award. Pollyanna, a 12-year-old orphaned daughter of missionaries, arrives in the small town of Harrington to live with her rich and strict"