Award and Honor
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 Awards for 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, 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 and Fantasia
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 Television Hall of Fame in 1986,the California Hall of Fame in December 2006,and was the inaugural recipient of a star on the Anaheim walk of stars in 2014.
The Walt Disney Family Museum records that he "along with members of his staff, received more than 950 honors and citations from throughout the world". He was made a Chevalier in the French L�gion d'honneur in 1935, and in 1952 he was awarded the country's highest artistic decoration, the Officer d'Academie. Other national awards include Thailand's Order of the Crown; Brazil's Order of the Southern Cross and Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle. In the United States, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964 and, in 1969, he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.He received the Showman of the World Award from the National Association of Theatre Owners, and, in 1955, the National Audubon Society awarded Disney its highest honor, the Audubon Medal, for promoting the "appreciation and understanding of nature" through his True-Life Adventures nature films. A minor planet discovered in 1980 by astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina, was named 4017 Disneya,and he was also awarded hon orary degrees from Harvard, Yale, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Competitive Academy Awards
Year | Category | Film/documentary | Result |
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1932 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Flowers and Trees | Won |
1932 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Mickey's Orphans | Nominated |
1934 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Three Little Pigs | Won |
1934 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Building a Building | Nominated |
1935 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Tortoise and the Hare | Won |
1936 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Three Orphan Kittens | Won |
1936 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Who Killed Cock Robin? | Nominated |
1937 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Country Cousin | Won |
1938 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Old Mill | Won |
1939 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Ferdinand the Bull | Won |
1939 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Brave Little Tailor | Nominated |
1939 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Good Scouts | Nominated |
1939 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Mother Goose Goes Hollywood | Nominated |
1940 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Ugly Duckling | Won |
1940 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Pointer | Nominated |
1942 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Lend a Paw | Won |
1942 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Truant Officer Donald | Nominated |
1943 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Der Fuehrer's Face | Won |
1943 | Best Documentary (Feature) | The Grain That Built a Hemisphere | Nominated |
1943 | Best Documentary (Feature) | The New Spirit | Nominated |
1944 | Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Water: Friend or Enemy | Nominated |
1944 | Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Reason and Emotion | Nominated |
1945 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | How to Play Football | Nominated |
1946 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Donald's Crime | Nominated |
1947 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Squatter's Rights | Nominated |
1948 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Chip an' Dale | Nominated |
1948 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Pluto's Blue Note | Nominated |
1949 | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Seal Island | Won |
1949 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Mickey and the Seal | Nominated |
1949 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Tea for Two Hundred | Nominated |
1950 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Toy Tinkers | Nominated |
1951 | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | In Beaver Valley | Won |
1952 | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Nature's Half Acre | Won |
1952 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Lambert the Sheepish Lion | Nominated |
1953 | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Water Birds | Won |
1954 | Best Documentary (Feature) | The Living Desert | Won |
1954 | Best Documentary (Short Subject) | The Alaskan Eskimo | Won |
1954 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom | Won |
1954 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Rugged Bear | Nominated |
1954 | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Bear Country | Won |
1954 | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Ben and Me | Nominated |
1955 | Best Documentary (Feature) | The Vanishing Prairie | Won |
1955 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Pigs Is Pigs | Nominated |
1955 | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Siam | Nominated |
1956 | Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Men Against the Arctic | Won |
1956 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | No Hunting | Nominated |
1956 | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Switzerland | Nominated |
1957 | Best Short Subject (Two-reel) | Samoa | Nominated |
1958 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | The Truth About Mother Goose | Nominated |
1959 | Best Short Subject (Live Action) | Grand Canyon | Won |
1959 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Paul Bunyan | Nominated |
1960 | Best Documentary (Short Subject) | Donald in Mathmagic Land | Nominated |
1960 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Noah's Ark | Nominated |
1960 | Best Short Subject (Live Action) | Mysteries of the Deep | Nominated |
1961 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Goliath II | Nominated |
1961 | Best Short Subject (Live Action) | Islands of the Sea | Nominated |
1962 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Aquamania | Nominated |
1963 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Symposium on Popular Songs | Nominated |
1965 | Best Picture | Mary Poppins | Nominated |
1969 | Best Short Subject (Cartoon) | Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | Won |
Honorary Academy Awards
Year | To,for/award name | Award type |
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1932 | To Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse. | Statuette |
1939 | To Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, "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 |
1942 | To Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins and the RCA Manufacturing Company "for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia." | Certificate of merit |
1942 | Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Thalberg Award |