Which 1991 Disney movie was the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?
"Peter Schneider (film executive) Peter Schneider is an American film and theatrical producer, notable as the first president of Walt Disney Feature Animation for The Walt Disney Company from 1985 to 1999, and was responsible for helping to turn the feature animation department around and creating some of the most critically acclaimed and highest grossing animated features that Disney released. These films included ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988), ""The Little Mermaid"" (1989), ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991, the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture), ""Aladdin"" (1992), and ""The Lion King"" (1994, the highest"
"series as ""The Golden Girls"" and ""Home Improvement"". Katzenberg was also charged with turning around Disney's ailing Feature Animation unit, creating some intrastudio controversy when he personally edited twelve minutes out of a completed Disney animated feature, ""The Black Cauldron"" (1985), shortly after joining the company. Under his management, the animation department eventually began creating some of Disney's most critically acclaimed and highest grossing animated features. These films include ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988), ""The Little Mermaid"" (1989), ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991)—which was the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture—""Aladdin"" (1992), and"
"films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature since its inauguration in 2001, with nine winning; this includes ""Finding Nemo"" and ""Toy Story 3"", along with ""The Incredibles"" (2004), ""Ratatouille"" (2007), ""WALL-E"" (2008), ""Up"" (2009), ""Brave"" (2012), ""Inside Out"" (2015), and ""Coco"" (2017). ""Monsters, Inc."" (2001) and ""Cars"" (2006) are the only two films that were nominated for the award without winning it, while ""Cars 2"" (2011), ""Monsters University"" (2013), ""The Good Dinosaur"" (2015), ""Finding Dory"" (2016), and ""Cars 3"" (2017), were not nominated. ""Up"" and ""Toy Story 3"" were also the respective second and third"
"For much of the Academy Awards' history, AMPAS was resistant to the idea of a regular Oscar for animated features, considering there were simply too few produced to justify such consideration. Instead, the Academy occasionally bestowed special Oscars for exceptional productions, usually for Walt Disney Pictures, such as for ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" in 1938, and the Special Achievement Academy Award for the live action/animated hybrid ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" in 1989 and ""Toy Story"" in 1996. In fact, prior to the creation of the award, only one animated film was nominated for Best Picture: 1991's ""Beauty and"
"for best picture it's Wall-E."" Only three animated films, 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"" and Pixar's next two films, 2009's ""Up"" and 2010's ""Toy Story 3"", have ever been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. A reflective Stanton stated he was not disappointed the film was restricted to the Best Animated Film nomination because he was overwhelmed by the film's positive reception, and eventually ""The line [between live-action and animation] is just getting so blurry that I think with each proceeding year, it's going to be tougher and tougher to say what's an animated movie and what's not"
"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"")"
"""Beauty and the Beast"" and ""Aladdin"", won rave reviews, received multiple Oscars, and topped the box office charts. ""Beauty and the Beast"" would eventually become the first animated feature to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and the first animated feature to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, followed by 2009's ""Up"". In 1993, Disney released ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"", the first feature-length stop-motion animated film. Disney's success peaked in 1994, when ""The Lion King"" grossed $328,541,776 ($ in today's dollars). As of 2010, ""The Lion King"" ranked as the"
"record for the most nominations for an animated film with ""WALL-E"" (2008), although, with three nominations in the Best Original Song category, ""Beauty and the Beast""s nominations span only four categories, while ""WALL-E""s nominations cover six individual categories. While ""The Little Mermaid"" was the first to be nominated, ""Beauty and the Beast"" became the first animated film to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. This feat was later repeated by ""The Lion King"" and ""Toy Story 2"". In 2002, ""Beauty and the Beast"" was added to the United States National Film Registry as"
"Best Picture when that category had only five entries (1944-2008). ""Beauty and the Beast"" did win the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and two Academy Awards, for Best Original Score and Best Original Song. ""Beauty and the Beast"" also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound, as well as two additional nominations for Best Original Song. ""Aladdin"" and ""The Lion King"" followed in 1992 and 1994, respectively, with both films having the highest worldwide grosses of their respective release years. ""Aladdin"" was the highest-grossing animated film at the time of its release, but later became"
"Hahn made his first mark as producer for Disney and Amblin Entertainment's first Roger Rabbit short, ""Tummy Trouble"", producing along with Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall. He then became the producer for the benchmark animated feature, 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"", which was the first animated film to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture. His next production, 1994's ""The Lion King"", set worldwide box office records for an animated film and quickly became the highest grossing traditionally animated film in history. In 1996 he produced ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", and in 2000 he was an"
"particularly interested in exploring the theme of 'If we don't learn to live with one another, we will destroy ourselves.'"" Gabriel's pitch was quickly accepted, becoming the quickest story turnaround in Disney studio history. After ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991) was unprecedentedly nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards, then-studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg opted to produce another animated romance film in the hopes of achieving a similar feat. While ""Aladdin"" (1992) and ""The Lion King"" (1994) were considered to be too far into development, Katzenberg deemed ""Pocahontas"" a promising candidate, and thus pushed for"
"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"
"regained their popularity, with Disney's ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Aladdin"" (1992), and ""The Lion King"" (1994). During 1995, the first feature length computer-animated feature, ""Toy Story"", was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Disney. After the success of Toy Story, computer animation would grow to become the dominant technique for feature length animation, which would allow competing film companies such as DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox to effectively compete with Disney with successful films of their own. During the late 1990s, another cinematic transition began, from physical film stock to digital cinema technology. Meanwhile, DVDs became"
"the film's initial release in 1989 – Yahoo! users voted """"The Little Mermaid"""" as No. 14 on the top 30 animated films of all time. Later, when Yahoo! updated the list in June of the same year, the film remained on the list but dropped six slots to end at #20. (Only three other traditionally animated Disney animated films - ""Aladdin"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", and ""The Lion King"", respectively - scored above it in the poll even after the update.) In 2011, Richard Corliss of ""TIME"" Magazine named it one of ""The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films"". ""The Little"
"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"
"second after being surpassed by ""The Lion King"", which became the highest-grossing animated film at the time and remains the highest-grossing traditionally animated film in history. Both films won Academy Awards for Best Original Song and Best Original Score. ""Aladdin"" also earned an additional Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and nominations for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing, for a total of five nominations. ""The Lion King"" earned two additional Academy Award nominations for Best Original Song, giving it a total of four Academy Award nominations. Howard Ashman wrote several songs for ""Aladdin"" before his death, but"
"21, 1953, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ""Johann Mouse"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, marking the cat and mouse duo's tenth consecutive nomination and their twelfth nomination for the last thirteen years (""Tom and Jerry"" was nominated for every year since 1940, except for 1942). It won the Oscar, becoming the duo's seventh win in the category, tying them with Walt Disney's ""Silly Symphonies"" for the record of the most awards in the Best Animated Short Film category. The duo would later be nominated for the thirteenth and final time in the category two years later, in"
"debt to German Expressionism. The Sandman (1991 film) The Sandman is a 1991 stop-motion animation film, animated and directed by Paul Berry (1961–2001) and nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1993. The storyline is inspired by the E.T.A. Hoffmann's version of the European legend of The Sandman. Late on a moonlit evening, a young boy is sent up to bed by his mother. He walks through the darkened hallway of his house and ascends the long, narrow flights of stairs alone, becoming increasingly paranoid that something is following him, until he reaches the safety of his"
"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"
"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"
"The Sandman (1991 film) The Sandman is a 1991 stop-motion animation film, animated and directed by Paul Berry (1961–2001) and nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1993. The storyline is inspired by the E.T.A. Hoffmann's version of the European legend of The Sandman. Late on a moonlit evening, a young boy is sent up to bed by his mother. He walks through the darkened hallway of his house and ascends the long, narrow flights of stairs alone, becoming increasingly paranoid that something is following him, until he reaches the safety of his bedroom. As he's drifting"
"studio. From early 1985 to 1988, two different teams of writers took a turn at turning Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont's tale into a feature film, but Woolverton succeeded in adapting the story by incorporating her new ideas into the plot, like making the protagonist a bookaholic. Upon its release in 1991, ""Beauty and the Beast"" received universal critical acclaim, becoming the first animated film ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. The success of ""Beauty and the Beast"" led Woolverton to"
"was abandoning traditional animation, an idea that the studio dismissed. That same year, ""Frozen"", a CGI musical film inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Snow Queen"", was released to widespread acclaim and became a blockbuster hit. Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee with songs by the Broadway team of Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez, it was the first Disney animated film to earn over $1 billion in worldwide box office revenue and is currently the highest-grossing animated film of all time, surpassing Pixar's ""Toy Story 3"". ""Frozen"" also became the first film from Walt Disney Animation Studios to win"
"Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced a new Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The three contenders for first honoree in this award were all CGI feature films: ""Shrek"", by DreamWorks, ""Monsters, Inc."", by Disney and Pixar, and """", by Nickelodeon and Paramount. The award that year went to ""Shrek"". Films that year which were passed up included the acclaimed adult oriented film ""Waking Life"" and the photorealistic CGI film """". Hayao Miyazaki's critically acclaimed ""Spirited Away"" won the Oscar in 2002. Disney/Pixar's ""Finding Nemo"" received the 2003 award, defeating nominees ""The Triplets of Belleville"" and ""Brother Bear"". Since then,"
"more recently, Blue Sky Studios"". Important animated family films of the 1990s include Disney titles such as ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Aladdin"" (1992), ""The Lion King"" (1994), ""Mulan"" (1998), ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1996), and the Pixar computer animated films ""Toy Story"" (1995), its sequel ""Toy Story 2"" (1999), and ""A Bug's Life"" (1998). This decade introduced the modern fairy tale film ""Edward Scissorhands"" (1990), depicting an isolated, artificially created young man with human emotions and childlike qualities who is ultimately rejected by society while the female protagonist holds on to his memory. The 1990s also saw additional"
"interacted (e.g. the Big Bad Wolf and the fairies from ""Sleeping Beauty""). The tradition was revived in the mid-1990s to publicize contemporary Disney feature animated films: ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1992), ""Aladdin"" (1993), ""The Lion King"" (1994), ""Pocahontas"" (1995), ""Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1996) and ""The Little Mermaid"" (for its re-release, 1997). Newspaper Enterprise Association offered a similar holiday themed special strip from 1936 to 2010. The following writers and artists worked on the Disney comic strips: Norman, in an article, listed the writers working in the comic strip department in the 1980s and mentions Cal Howard, Del Connell, Bill"
"nominations. The film was nominated for four categories at the 42nd British Academy Film Awards and won for Best Visual Effects. ""Roger Rabbit"" was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), while Hoskins was also nominated for his performance. The film also won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Movie. The success of ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" rekindled an interest in the Golden Age of American animation, and sparked the modern animation scene. In 1991, Walt Disney Imagineering began to develop Mickey's Toontown for Disneyland, based on the"
"Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 30th Disney animated feature film and the third released during the Disney Renaissance period, it is based on the French fairy tale of the same name by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont who was uncredited in the English version but credited in the French version, and ideas from the 1946 French film of the same name directed by Jean Cocteau. ""Beauty and the Beast"" focuses on the relationship between"
"won the four biggest awards of American show business: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. ""Aladdin"" was released in 1992. The 31st Disney animated feature film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, and is based on the Arabic folktale of ""Aladdin and the Magic Lamp"" from the ""One Thousand and One Nights"". The plot follows street urchin Aladdin as he attempts to gain the affection of Princess Jasmine after acquiring a magic lamp. ""Aladdin"" was followed by Disney's first direct-to-video sequel, ""The Return of Jafar"" in 1994. The plot mainly focused on Jafar seeking revenge on Aladdin."
"Animated Feature, but also for Best Picture. This makes ""Toy Story 3"" not only the first animated sequel in history to be nominated for Best Picture, but also just the third animated film to ever be so nominated (following ""Beauty and the Beast"" and ""Up""), with ""Toy Story 3"" becoming the second Pixar film to be nominated for both awards. ""Toy Story 3"" also became the first ever Pixar film—and the first animated feature film since ""Shrek""—to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, though six of Pixar's previous films were nominated for the Best Original Screenplay:"
"premiering at the New York Film Festival, an ailing Ashman was being cared for at St. Vincent's Hospital; the lyricist succumbed to his disease four days later on March 14, 1991, dying eight months before the film's November release. ""Beauty and the Beast"" became the last project on which Menken worked with Ashman. The film was released to immediate critical acclaim and commercial success, outperforming ""The Little Mermaid"" by becoming the highest-grossing animated film in history, as well as the first animated film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. Once again, Academy Awards were won for"
"were no official nominations, but instead a special achievement given. To date, there have been two wholly Animated films nominated in this category: ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" in 1993 and ""Kubo and the Two Strings"" in 2016. There has been one semi-animated film nominated, which also won: ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" in 1988. Usually, there are three nominated films. In 1979, there were five films nominated. Sometimes, no award is given. Other times, a single film is given the award outright. In 2007, it was decided that a list of no more than 15 eligible films would be chosen, from"
"22nd Annie Awards The 22nd Annie Awards were given by the International Animated Film Association to honor outstanding achievements in animation in 1993-1994. ""The Lion King"" won the most number of awards with three, including Best Animated Feature. ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" followed with two. ""The Simpsons"" won its third consecutive award for Best Animated Television Program. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). Winsor McCay Award<br> Recognition for career contributions to the art of animation Certificate of Merit<br> Recognition for service to the art, craft and industry of animation The following six"