"racist. The composer Philip Glass later adapted the book into the opera ""The Perfect American"" (2013). Disney received 59 Academy Award nominations, including 22 awards: both totals are records. He was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, but did not win, but he was presented with two Special Achievement Awardsfor ""Bambi"" (1942) and ""The Living Desert"" (1953)and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. He also received four Emmy Award nominations, winning once, for Best Producer for the ""Disneyland"" television series. Several of his films are included in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as ""culturally, historically,"
"Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed"
"innovations and alliances with governments and corporations, he transformed a minor studio in a marginal form of communication into a multinational leisure industry giant. Despite his critics, his vision of a modern, corporate utopia as an extension of traditional American values has possibly gained greater currency in the years after his death. Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy"
"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"
"Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack were posthumously included among the four producers nominated for ""The Reader."" the Producers Branch Executive Committee determines such exceptions, noting they take place only in ""rare and extraordinary circumstance[s]."" Steven Spielberg currently holds the record for most nominations at ten, winning one, while Kathleen Kennedy holds the record for most nominations without a win at eight. Sam Spiegel and Saul Zaentz tie for the most wins with three each. As for the time when the Oscar was given to production companies instead, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer holds the record with five wins and 40 nominations. The Academy Awards"
"Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 51 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most-nominated individual, after Walt Disney. In 2005, the American Film Institute selected Williams's score to 1977's ""Star Wars"" as the greatest American film score of all time. The soundtrack to ""Star Wars"" was additionally preserved by the Library of Congress into the National Recording Registry, for being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in"
"won the most awards with seven including Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón. Other winners included ""Dallas Buyers Club"" also with three awards, ""Frozen"", and ""The Great Gatsby"" with two, and ""Blue Jasmine"", ""The Great Beauty"", ""Helium"", ""Her"", ""The Lady in Number 6"", ""Mr Hublot"", and ""20 Feet from Stardom"" with one. The telecast garnered nearly 44 million viewers in the United States, making it the most watched Oscar ceremony since the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000. The nominees for the 86th Academy Awards were announced on January 16, 2014, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater"
"the film held the record for the greatest number of Oscar nominations for a computer animated feature film, breaking the previous record held by ""Monsters, Inc."", ""Finding Nemo"", and ""The Incredibles"" at four nominations, but tied with ""Aladdin"" for any animated film. In 2008, ""WALL-E"" surpassed that record with six nominations. As of 2013, ""Ratatouille"" is tied with ""Up"" and ""Toy Story 3"" for animated film with the second-greatest number of Oscar nominations. ""Beauty and the Beast"" still holds the record for most Oscar nominations (also 6) for an animated feature film. Furthermore, ""Ratatouille"" was nominated for 13 Annie Awards"
"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"
"nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner (""The Bad and the Beautiful"" and ""Hans Christian Andersen"", both with six). This occurred again at the 79th Academy Awards. Shirley Booth became the last person born in the 19th century to win an Oscar in a Leading Role. She is also the first woman in her 50s to win the award, at the age of 54 (the second woman in her 50s to win, Julianne Moore, was 54 when awarded at the 87th Academy Awards). John Ford's fourth win for Best Director set a record for the most wins"
"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,"
"sixteen of the twenty highest-grossing G-rated films. In addition, four of the top-five opening weekends were Disney releases. In 2015, Disney achieved its largest yearly box-office gross worldwide and in North America. In 2016, Disney surpassed $7 billion in worldwide yearly box-office gross—the first of any major studio—surpassing the previous 2015 record. —Includes theatrical reissue(s). Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (originally established as Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, Inc., Buena Vista Distribution Company, Inc. and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.) is an American film distributor owned by The Walt Disney Company. Established in 1953 as"
"join the two Franks on stage. This was the last time that the Oscars' eligibility period was spread over two different calendar years, creating the longest time frame for which films could be nominated: the seventeen months from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. This was the last time that no film had more than four nominations. ""Cavalcade"" became the fourth film to win Best Picture without a writing nomination, and the last until ""Hamlet"" (1948) at the 21st Academy Awards. Walt Disney became the first person to win consecutive Academy Awards, winning Best Short Subject, Cartoon for ""The"
"Best Picture nomination: ""Mary Poppins"" (1964), ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Up"" (2009), and ""Toy Story 3"" (2010). Walt Disney Pictures has produced four films that have grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office: """" (2006), ""Alice in Wonderland"" (2010), """" (2011), and ""Beauty and the Beast"" (2017); and has released five animated films that have reached that milestone: ""Toy Story 3"" (2010), ""Frozen"" (2013), ""Zootopia"", ""Finding Dory"" (both 2016), and ""Incredibles 2"" (2018). —Includes theatrical reissue(s). Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Pictures, formally known as Buena Vista Pictures, is an American film studio and a subsidiary of"
"Director nomination. At age 80, Jessica Tandy became the oldest winner of competitive acting Oscar at the time. Kenneth Branagh was the fifth person nominated for Best Lead Actor and Best Director for the same film. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double-dagger (). The following 19 films received multiple nominations: The following five films received multiple awards: The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers. After the negative reception received from the preceding year's ceremony, AMPAS created an Awards Presentation Review Committee to evaluate and determine why the telecast earned such a negative"
"received multiple nominations in the same year was Steven Soderbergh for ""Erin Brockovich"" and ""Traffic"" in 2000, winning the award for the latter. The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 90 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 64 have also been awarded Best Director. Since its inception, the award has been given to 69 directors or directing teams. John Ford has received the most awards in this category with four. William Wyler was nominated on twelve occasions, more than any other individual. Damien Chazelle became the youngest"
"in worldwide grosses) among major Hollywood studios, with ten of the twenty highest-grossing films of all time being distributed by Disney. In addition, Disney is the first of only three studios that have released at least two billion-dollar films in the same year (the others being Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures). Furthermore, Disney is the only studio that has achieved this six times, in 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018- 2016 of which included four $1 billion releases, a record for any studio. Seven of the top ten highest-grossing animated films have been released by Disney, as well as"
"wins, """" breaks the record for most nominations without a win, beating original record holder ""Grown Ups 2"". Following the nomination announcement, the organization received backlash from audiences and critics with three nominations given to ""Mother!"", which received a generally positive response from critics. The following nine films received multiple nominations: <nowiki>*</nowiki> ""Films that shared at least one nomination with another."" The following films received multiple wins: 38th Golden Raspberry Awards The 38th Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies, was an awards ceremony that honored the worst the film industry had to offer in 2017. The Golden Raspberry Awards were awarded"
"previously been tied with Alfred Newman's 45 nominations), and the second most nominated overall, following Walt Disney. Williams won an Annie Award for his score for ""The Adventures of Tintin"" in 2012. In 2012, Williams scored Spielberg's film ""Lincoln"" and subsequently received his 48th Academy Award nomination. In February 2013, Williams expressed his interest in working in the ""Star Wars"" sequel trilogy, stating: ""Now we're hearing of a new set of movies coming in 2015, 2016... so I need to make sure I'm still ready to go in a few years for what I hope would be continued work with"
"in Oscar history. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 15 films had multiple nominations: The following four films received multiple awards. The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers. Determined to revive interest surrounding the awards and reverse declining ratings, the Academy hired Samuel Goldwyn Jr. in November 1986 to produce the telecast for the first time. The following March, Goldwyn announced that comedian Chevy Chase, actress and Academy Award winner Goldie Hawn, and actor and Best Original Screenplay nominee Paul Hogan would share co-hosting duties for the 1987"
"significant amount of animated characters, and be at least 75 percent animated in order to be qualified for consideration. A minimum of eight qualifying films must be released within the calendar year to permit a slate of three nominees. If the number of films exceeds twelve, the nominee roster increases to five. Prior to the introduction of this category, three Disney films (1937's ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", 1988's ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"", and 1995's ""Toy Story"") were all given Special Achievement Academy Awards. At the time of the nominations announcement on February 12, the combined gross of the"
"received a then-record seven nominations, and was the first film to win more than two awards. Jackie Cooper was the first child star to receive a nomination, and he was the youngest nominee for nearly 50 years. He is the second-youngest Oscar nominee ever and the only Best Actor nominee under age 18. Best Actor winner Lionel Barrymore became the first person to have received nominations in multiple categories, with a Best Director nod for ""Madame X"" at the 2nd Academy Awards. In addition, ""Cimarron"" and ""A Free Soul"" became the first movies to receive multiple acting nominations. Winners are"
"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,"
"(9) set by ""The Little Foxes"" (1941). This record would stand until 1977 when ""The Turning Point"" received 11 nominations without a win, which is the record to date (""The Color Purple"" tied the record in 1985). ""Peyton Place"" also set the record for most unsuccessful acting nominations with five; this record has been tied once, by ""Tom Jones"" at the 36th Academy Awards. This was the first time all five Best Picture nominations were nominated for Best Director as well. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards."
"is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year. Since its inception, the award has been given to 80 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2018 ceremony, Gary Oldman is the most recent winner in this category for portraying former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in ""Darkest Hour"". In the following table, the years are"
"Awards history behind Walt Disney's 59. Forty-six of Williams's Oscar nominations are for Best Original Score and five are for Best Original Song. He won four Oscars for Best Original Score and one for Best Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score ""(Fiddler on the Roof)"". In 1980, Williams received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music. Williams has been inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. Williams was honored with the annual Richard Kirk award at the 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards, recognizing his contribution to film"
"Academy presented Disney an Honorary Academy Award, ""for creating ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" [1937], recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon."" (One statuette and seven miniature statuettes on a stepped base.) This is a rare case of a film being recognized in two succeeding ceremonies. The presentation of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award began, presented to Darryl F. Zanuck, who also holds the record for most presentations at three. This was the first year in which every film nominated for Best Picture"
"Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018. On October 30, 2012, she became the president of Lucasfilm after The Walt Disney Company acquired the company for over $4 billion. In 2018, her contract was renewed for three additional years. Overall, Kennedy participated in the making of 60 films, mostly as executive producer, that garnered 8 Academy Award nominations and over $11 billion worldwide including three of the highest-grossing films in motion picture history. Kennedy was born in Berkeley, California, to Dione Marie ""Dede"" (née Dousseau), a one-time theater actress, and Donald R. Kennedy, a judge and attorney. She"
"2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception. As of 2018, there have been 546 films nominated for Best Picture and 90 winners. At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: ""Outstanding Picture"" and ""Unique and Artistic Picture,"" the former being won by the war epic ""Wings,"" and the latter by the art film ""."" Each award was intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking. The following year, the Academy dropped"
"did not screen in Los Angeles until 1972. Chaplin had received honorary Academy Awards in 1929 and 1972. ""Cabaret"", Bob Fosse's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical, set a record for the most Oscars won without winning Best Picture. Best Picture winner ""The Godfather"" received only three Academy Awards. This year was the first time that two African American women received nominations for Best Actress. This was also the first year when all the Oscar winners were brought out on stage at the end of the ceremony. Winners are listed first in boldface. The following 15 films received multiple nominations."
"and playwrights who have received nominations in this category include: John Steinbeck, Noël Coward, Raymond Chandler, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Edward Bond, Arthur C. Clarke, Lillian Hellman, Neil Simon, Paddy Chayefsky, Kenneth Lonergan, Tom Stoppard, Terence Rattigan and Martin McDonagh. Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3, though Paddy Chayefsky won the Best Adapted Screenplay in 1955 for his adaptation of his teleplay, ""Marty,"" and also won for Original Screenplay for ""The Hospital"" and ""Network"". Woody Allen also holds the record as the oldest winner (at age 76 for ""Midnight in Paris"","
"nominated for Best Director and the youngest nominee in that category. Nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Lead Actress, respectively, Diane Ladd and Laura Dern became the first mother and daughter nominated in the same year. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with double dagger (). The following 16 films had multiple nominations: The following five films received multiple awards: The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers: Riding on the success of 63rd Academy Awards which won several Emmys, AMPAS rehired Gil Cates for the third consecutive year. He christened the 1992 ceremony with"
"""Titanic"", Best Actress nominee Kate Winslet and Best Supporting Actress nominee Gloria Stuart became the first pair of actresses nominated for portraying the same character in the same film. At age 87, Stuart also became the oldest performer nominated for a competitive Oscar. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 16 films received multiple nominations: The following four films received multiple awards: The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers. In December 1997, the Academy hired veteran Oscar telecast producer Gil Cates to oversee the 1998 ceremony. ""Gil has become"