Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney 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.

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.

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Display case in the lobby of the Academy Awards won by Disney



Competitive Academy Awards

Year Category Film/documentary Result
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
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