Top 10 Oscar Awards by Walt Disney Pictures – Awardsdaily

October 16th marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Walt Disney Company.

Brothers Walt and Roy Disney founded the company in 1923 as Disney Brothers Studio and officially changed its name to The Walt Disney Company in 1986. During its 100 years, the Disney brand has won over 140 Academy Awards in live-action and film. Anime movie. Walt Disney himself holds the record for Oscar wins, having created 22 statues out of 59 nominations. He won his last Oscar in 1968 for Winnie the Pooh and Much Ado About Nothing.

So, after considering these statistics and the entire history of Oscar wins by the legendary studio, we thought we’d compile a list of our top 10 favorite Disney Academy Award winners. It was tougher than expected. Because how do you rank the well-deserved triumph of costume design in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever compared to the then-famous visual effects of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?

The truth is, we can’t do that, but that didn’t stop us.

So, here are 10 of our favorite Oscar-winning films from the Walt Disney Company.

10. Flowers and Trees (Short Animation Award)

Compared to the much more advanced works that came later, Disney’s first Oscar-winning film ranks as one of our favorites due to its incredible beauty and simplicity. This short, part of the popular Silly Symphony brand, was Disney’s first animated short made in color, produced in his then-current 3-strip Technicolor process. There aren’t that many stories. In spring, trees, flowers, and mushrooms wake up, and soon they are threatened by forest fires. But simplicity works wonders in this sweet and timeless classic animation.

9. Cruella (Best Costume Design Award)

Costume designer Jenny Bevan has been nominated for the Best Costume Design Oscar 12 times and won three times. But her highest ranking is her Oscar win for Cruella in 2021. Sure, she literally won the award for her film about the mid-1960s fashion industry, but she also used the canvas to unleash her imagination and create seriously thematic looks that were quite surprising. Did. Many black-and-white patterns emphasize the internal struggle within certain characters, while also hinting at major revelations that will occur within the film. One dress burns down to reveal even more amazing pieces underneath. Some dresses look like they’re made entirely out of trash. Although more than 100 of her major costumes are used in this film, Bevan’s victories aren’t strictly based on quantity. This is a testament to the best work by one of today’s most creative costume designers.

8. Toy Story 3 (Best Animated Feature)

The excellent 1995’s Toy Story and 1999’s Toy Story 2 were not eligible for the Best Animated Feature Oscar because the category did not exist at the time the films were released. Therefore, 2010’s Toy Story 3 ranks on this list as being representative of the Toy Story series as a whole. While the first film wowed audiences with its advancements in computer animation (and launched the powerhouse that was Pixar), and the second film expanded the world of the series in imaginative ways, the third film in the series really hit the ground running. It brought stakes and honest emotions and eased the burden on parents. By the end of the movie, the original brought it up to a puddle of tears. It was also able to rank in the Best Picture lineup, which was being expanded at the time. It also featured one of his best villains throughout his entire 100-year canon at Disney, Lots-O-Huggin’ Bear (voiced by Ned Beatty). It wasn’t as big of a competition as he was the only three contestants that year, but that didn’t dampen his winning momentum.

7. Julie Andrews (Best Actress for Mary Poppins)

Julie Andrews didn’t win a Tony Award for playing Eliza Doolittle in the play My Fair Lady, but she felt the role symbolically belonged to her. When Hollywood began making the musical into a film, Jack Warner replaced Andrews with Audrey Hepburn. Still, it was Andrews who had the last laugh. The film would win Best Picture, but Hepburn did not receive a nomination for Best Actress. Instead, her Best Actress award that year went to Andrews, who played Mary Poppins, the magical nanny who makes everything better with a spoonful of sugar. Say what you like about the film itself, or its status as an adaptation of P. L. Travers’ novel (see Saving Mr. Banks), but Andrews’ central performance is undeniably great. She underpins the film’s more outlandish elements with practicality and a captivating sense of fun.

6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Best Visual Effects)

It’s probably scary for many to rank 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit above the great Julie Andrews, but there’s an unruly nature to the list. Roger Rabbit director Robert Zemeckis is famous for seamlessly blending animation with live-action for adults, breaking Disney’s “animation is sacred” mantra. The film won three Oscars and a Lifetime Achievement Award, but the win for Best Visual Effects ranks it as one of his best works ever won.

5. Beauty and the Beast (Best Original Score)

There are a lot of great scores in Walt Disney’s animated films, but somehow 1991’s Beauty and the Beast stands on top of them all. Fresh off the release of the Broadway-ready score for 1989’s The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast not only embarrasses the riches with its memorable songs, but also features Alan Menkin’s career-best score throughout the film. It was also decided to sprinkle it on the . The song won Best Original Song for “Be Our Guest” and made history by becoming the first animated film to receive a Best Picture nomination at the time. But Menkin’s acquisition of an original score underscores the film’s true power.

4. Ratatouille (Best Animated Feature)

Pixar Studios has won Best Animated Feature 10 times, losing the first award to DreamWorks’ Shrek in 2002. Several modern Pixar classics have won this award, so it’s very difficult to compare one to the other. But for our money, the triumph of 2008’s Ratatouille highlighted the extraordinary magic that studios can create. Instead of focusing on beloved toys, cuddly fish, and heartbreakingly honest robots, Remy’s Delicious Restaurant puts one of the creatures humans hate most, the rat, in the kitchen as a budding chef. . The film’s theme of “Anyone Can Cook” democratizes any industry dreamers want to break into, but the real heart of the film lies in the film’s criticism of Anton Ego (Peter O’Toole). It’s in the monologue at the end. It was clear that writer/director Brad Bird wasn’t talking about food criticism. He elevated animated films to something that resonated with adult artists around the world, and the Academy responded with Oscars.

3. Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor for “Lincoln”)

In 2012, Disney released Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece Lincoln on its Touchstone Pictures label. Before the film was released, everyone had heard that Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis tried to stay in character even when the cameras stopped on set. However, once the film rolled around, it quickly became clear that his dedication to acting had paid off in a big way. Day-Lewis avoids traditional biopic tropes by fully humanizing one of our nation’s greatest presidents. He guides us through the film’s often dense political intrigue with a performance so authentic and complex that it probably ranks among the greatest on-screen performances of great actors (below) Please write a comment). Although the film didn’t win the well-deserved Best Picture and Best Director trophies, Day-Lewis’ win for Best Actor was the easiest decision of the night. No one approached.

2. Pinocchio (“When You Wish Upon a Star” Best Original Song)

Among the many Disney original song winners, 1940’s “When You Wish Upon a Star” from Pinocchio set a standard that has yet to be matched. A simple ballad dedicated to dreamers around the world, the song literally became a signature of the Walt Disney Company itself. Every time the famous castle logo appears before a Disney movie, a bar of the song plays along with the image. There are a lot of great songs from Disney movies that won Oscars (but there’s at least one song that didn’t win but still ranks higher than the Oscar winners: The Little Mermaid’s “Part of Your World”) ), but this song by Lee Harline and Lee Harline may never surpass Ned Washington in its ability to embed itself in our collective subconscious.

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Academy Award for Film Innovation)

And finally, we arrive at the choice that will probably be perceived as the most obvious choice for the Walt Disney Company to win the top Oscar. Technically it’s not a win. In 1937, there wasn’t really an Oscar category designed to recognize animated films. That’s because there was no animation feature before “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Although the Academy did not nominate it for his 1937 Best Picture award, they recognized that there was something equally wonderful and groundbreaking about this classically told story. Yes, the movie is great, but what really makes this the biggest Oscar winner is the statue itself. Yes, Walt Disney received one regular-sized statue accompanied by seven miniature statues (gifts from Shirley Temple). The stuff of legend.