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Walt Disney Productions: Traditional: Won 2 Academy Awards for Best Original Song for "When You Wish Upon A Star", and for Best Original Score. February 7, 1940 () Fantasia: United States: Various: Walt Disney Productions: Traditional/live action: First animated feature, and first feature film to be presented in stereophonic surround sound.
Honorary Academy Awards; Year To, for/award name Award type Refs. 1932 (5th) To Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse.: Statuette [2] [12]1939 (11th) To Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, [38] "recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon."
TV Guide awarded the film four stars, calling it "the most ambitious animated feature ever to come out of the Disney studios", noting how the film "integrates famous works of classical music with wildly uneven but extraordinarily imaginative visuals that run the gamut from dancing hippos to the purely abstract". [179]
February 7 – Walt Disney's second animated feature film Pinocchio premieres at the Center Theatre in New York City. Although not a box office success upon its initial release, the film receives critical acclaim and wins two Academy Awards, including one for Best Original Song for "When You Wish Upon a Star".
The Oscars’ animated feature category turns voting age this year, which means none of the genre’s masterpieces dating back to the 1930s ever competed for the coveted prize. And that means one ...
First animated film to win Best Animated Feature. Shrek (2001) First animated film to win both music categories. Pinocchio (1940) for Best Original Score and Best Original Song; First stop motion animated film to win Best Animated Feature. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) First non-English language film to win Best Animated ...
Walt Disney Animation Studios is an American animation studio headquartered in Burbank, California, [1] the original feature film division of The Walt Disney Company.The studio's films are also often called "Disney Classics" (or "Classic Animated Features" in the case of the films with traditional hand drawn animation), [2] or "Disney Animated Canon".
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is an Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best animated feature film. An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame ...